1964 United States presidential election in Arizona

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1964 United States presidential election in Arizona
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  1960 November 3, 1964 (1964-11-03) 1968  
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Nominee Barry Goldwater Lyndon B. Johnson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Arizona Texas
Running mate William E. Miller Hubert Humphrey
Electoral vote50
Popular vote242,535237,753
Percentage50.45%49.45%

Arizona Presidential Election Results 1964.svg
County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

President-elect

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

The 1964 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Amidst a national landslide for incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, Arizona was one of only six states carried by Republican native son and U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, the only such state outside of the Deep South, and the only state to be won by the Republican nominee in both 1960 and 1964. Goldwater carried his home state by a slim margin of 1.00%, or less than 5,000 votes, [1] the smallest margin of any state. Arizona weighed in this election as 23 points more Republican than the nation at large.

Key to Goldwater’s victory was Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, which he carried by over 21,000 votes, despite Johnson carrying 10 out of 14 counties and two out of three congressional districts. As of 2020 , this is the last time that Graham, Mohave, and Yuma Counties have supported a Democratic presidential candidate. [2] [3] This marked the first time that Mohave County voted for the statewide loser.

Since gaining statehood in 1912, Arizona had been considered a bellwether state in elections. The preceding 1960 presidential election was the first ever in which Arizona did not back the national winner. This election, however, solidified Arizona’s transition from swing state to a Republican stronghold. From 1952 to 1992, Arizona would vote for the Republican candidate in every presidential election (in most cases by a much larger margin than Goldwater’s), giving it the longest Republican voting streak in the nation. Democrats Bill Clinton in 1996 and Joe Biden in 2020 would go on to narrowly carry the state with pluralities, but Arizona continues to lean Republican relative to the nation. [4] The last Democrat to win a majority of the state's vote was Harry S. Truman in 1948, thus making Arizona the only state in which no Democrat has won a majority of the vote in or after the latter half of the 20th century.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Arizona [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Barry Goldwater 242,535 50.45%
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)237,75349.45%
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 4820.10%
Majority4,7820.99%
Total votes480,770 100.00%

Results by county

County [5] Barry Goldwater
Republican
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Eric Hass
Socialist Labor
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Apache 1,84947.51%2,04252.47%10.02%-193-4.96%3,892
Cochise 7,64445.78%9,04554.17%80.05%-1,401-8.39%16,697
Coconino 5,75652.15%5,27047.75%110.10%4864.40%11,037
Gila 3,71335.24%6,82164.73%30.03%-3,108-29.49%10,537
Graham 2,65548.82%2,78351.18%00.00%-128-2.36%5,438
Greenlee 1,13226.45%3,14773.55%00.00%-2,015-47.10%4,279
Maricopa 143,11453.94%122,04246.00%1700.06%21,0727.94%265,326
Mohave 2,09148.19%2,24351.69%50.12%-152-3.50%4,339
Navajo 4,87050.47%4,77049.44%90.09%1001.03%9,649
Pima 46,95546.36%54,12053.44%2030.20%-7,165-7.08%101,278
Pinal 6,95641.23%9,91158.74%50.03%-2,955-17.51%16,872
Santa Cruz 1,50343.44%1,95556.50%20.06%-452-13.06%3,460
Yavapai 7,74957.16%5,74742.39%600.45%2,00214.77%13,556
Yuma 6,54845.44%7,85754.52%50.04%-1,309-9.08%14,410
Totals242,53550.45%237,75349.45%4820.10%4,7821.00%480,770

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Electors

Electors were chosen by their party's voters in primary elections held on September 8, 1964. [6]

Lyndon B. Johnson
& Hubert Humphrey
Democratic Party
Barry Goldwater
& William E. Miller
Republican Party
Eric Hass
& Henning A. Blomen
Socialist Labor Party
  • Eunice Collins
  • Thomas J. Croaff Jr.
  • Edyth Dailey
  • Dan Garvey
  • Joe Huerta
  • J. W. Allen
  • Kenneth G. Bentson
  • Mrs. Marc Claridge
  • Mrs. Scott Libby
  • John G. Speiden
  • Justine Blackwell
  • Lawrence G. Blackwell
  • Wrignol Everett Quillen
  • Elizabeth Horvath
  • Nickolas Mays

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