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Presidential Candidate | Vice Presidential Candidate | Political Party | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote |
| Richard Nixon | Spiro Agnew | Republican |
2,174,774 |
47.08% | 26 |
| Hubert Humphrey | Edmund Muskie | Democrat |
2,039,814 |
44.15% | 0 |
| George Wallace | Curtis LeMay | Independent |
390,958 |
8.46% | 0 |
| Henning Blomen | George Taylor | Socialist Labor |
13,878 |
0.30% | 0 |
| Write-ins | - | - |
325 |
0.01% | 0 |
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| Demographic Data
1970 Population: | 11,110,285 | Enum. | 1970 Population Density: | 77.2 | persons/km2 | 1960 Population: | 10,081,158 | Enum. | 1960 Population Density: | 70.0 | persons/km2 | Total Electoral Vote: | 26 | | Land Area (2000): | 143,961 | km2 | Annual Pop Growth Rate: | 1.0 | % |
| Election Data and Statistics:
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Data Sources:
- Source for Popular Vote data: Illinois Office of the Secretary of State, "Vote for President - November 5, 1968," Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the General Election November 5, 1968 (Springfield, 1968)
- Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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