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Presidential Candidate | Vice Presidential Candidate | Political Party | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote |
 | Hubert Humphrey | Edmund Muskie | Democrat |
1,266,804 |
41.14% | 25 |
 | Richard Nixon | Spiro Agnew | Republican |
1,227,844 |
39.87% | 0 |
 | George Wallace | Curtis LeMay | American |
584,269 |
18.97% | 0 |
 | Write-ins | - | - |
489 |
0.02% | 0 |
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| Demographic Data
| 1970 Population: | 11,198,655 | Enum. | 1970 Population Density: | 16.5 | persons/km2 | | 1960 Population: | 9,579,677 | Enum. | 1960 Population Density: | 14.1 | persons/km2 | | Total Electoral Vote: | 25 | | | Land Area (2000): | 678,051 | km2 | Annual Pop Growth Rate: | 1.6 | % |
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