Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service. Calculations based on State-by-State returns described as "complete and official" and published in the New York Times, Dec. 12, 1968, and the Washington Post, Dec. 13, 1968, State-by-State returns under the district system are not yet available; the nationwide total was compiled by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post, Nov. 28, 1968.

1 Democratic electors in Alabama were not pledged to Johnson, Their popular vote came to 210,733. Including this unpledged Alabama vote, other candidated received 336,697 votes, equivalent to 3.942 electoral votes.

Source: "Reform of the electoral college?" The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government. Richmond, Va., 1966, pp. 96-98. The table was prepared by Neal Peirce, political editor, Congressional Quarterly.