States in which George Wallace came in second in at least one county, 1968

These are the states where George Wallace came in first in at least one county:

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia

Outside these states, he came in second in these counties: 

Dorchester, MD
Kane, UT

making these the states in which Wallace came in either first or second (or, put another way, beat at least one of the two major nominees) in at least one county.

George Wallace carried one county in Missouri, Pemiscot, with a 37.71% plurality; Pemiscot cast 7,822 votes. In his second-best county in Missouri, New Madrid (which cast 9,496 votes), 31.42%. In Dorchester County, Maryland, which cast 10,114 votes, Wallace received 31.81%. Dorchester was Wallace's best county in Maryland. In Kane County, Utah, which cast 1,135 votes, Wallace received 15.33% to Humphrey's 12.95%, and it was not Wallace's best county in Utah (his best county was Washington County, where he got 15.92%, and Humphrey, 19.50%). 

In Warren County, Ohio (Wallace's best county in the state), Wallace came within less than 1% of second place, with 25.35% to Humphrey's 25.97%. Warren County cast 26,014 votes. Elsewhere, the only counties Wallace came close to second place were sparsely settled counties in the West, such as Banner, NE (where he was behind Humphrey by 0.61%, or by three votes out of 461 cast), McPherson, NE (where he was behind Humphrey by 1.93%, or by six votes out of 310 cast), and Lemhi, ID (where he was behind Humphrey by 0.31%, or eight votes out of 2,562 cast)--none of which was Wallace's best county in its state. These are the counties that were Wallace's best in their respective states:

Geneva, AL (91.73%)
George, MS (91.20%)
Holmes, FL (87.21%)
Echols, GA (83.02%)
Livingston, LA (80.85%)
Cleveland, AR (70.89%)
Crockett, TN (63.67%)
Currituck, NC (57.19%)
Abbeville, SC (54.82%)
Charlotte, VA (50.72%)
(states where Wallace won a majority in at least one county--in Virginia it was only one county, Charlotte, which cast 4,265 votes)
Loving, TX (49.38%)
Todd, KY (43.13%)
Atoka, OK (38.92%)
Pemiscot, MO (37.71%)
Dorchester, MD (31.81%)
Esmeralda, NV (27.48%)
Warren, OH (25.35%)
Custer, ID (22.98%)
Alexander, IL (20.81%)
Lea, NM (19.67%)
Morgan, IN (19.36%)
Kent, DE (19.09%)
(states where Wallace got as high a percentage of the vote in at least one county as he did in Kent, DE [the highest combined third-party vote in any county in West Virginia was 16.0%, in Berkeley County])
Teller, CO (18.07%)
Graham, AZ (17.43%)
Morton, KS (17.36%)
Sarpy, NE (16.96%)
Washington, UT (15.92%)
Gloucester, NJ (15.46%)
Cass, MI (15.14%)
Fulton, PA (14.90%)
Taylor, WI (13.85%)
Franklin, WA (13.57%)
Sublette, WY (13.39%)
Garfield, MT (13.27%)
Douglas, OR (13.16%)
Trinity, CA (13.06%)
Jackson, SD (11.60%)
Mills, IA (11.39%)
Billings, ND (10.82%)
Putnam, NY (9.82%)
Mahnomen, MN (7.72%)
Suffolk, MA (5.62%)
Washington, RI (4.8%)
Grand Isle, VT (4.68%)
Hillsborough, NH (4.59%)
Waldo, ME (2.73%)

unavailable: West Virginia, Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii

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