1964 United States presidential election in California

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1964 United States presidential election in California
Flag of California.svg
  1960 November 3, 1964 (1964-11-03) 1968  
Turnout88.38% (of registered voters) Increase2.svg 0.06 pp
66.00% (of eligible voters) Decrease2.svg 2.77 pp [1]
  37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote400
Popular vote4,171,8772,879,108
Percentage59.11%40.79%

California 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 California took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 40 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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California voted for the incumbent Democratic President, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, in a landslide over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

As Johnson won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 61.05% of the vote nationwide, and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins, California weighed in at about 4% more Republican than the national average in the 1964 election. Johnson dominated in liberal Northern California, breaking 60% in many counties and even breaking 70% in Plumas County and the city of San Francisco. However, the Western conservative Goldwater, from neighboring Arizona, appealed to residents of conservative Southern California, where Johnson failed to break his nationwide vote average in a single county. Goldwater indeed won six congressional districts in suburban areas of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties, and carried two heavily populated Southern California counties outright: Orange County and San Diego County, thus holding Johnson below the 60% mark statewide.

Although California has become a strongly Democratic state in recent elections, this was the only presidential election from 1952 to 1988 where the state was carried by a Democrat. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is also the last time that a Democrat has won the counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Kern, Modoc and Tulare. [2] This is also the most recent presidential election where Los Angeles County voted more Republican than the state as a whole, as well as the last in which California did not register the most votes cast by state.

California was Barry Goldwater's best state in the modern day "blue wall", which were states won by the Democrats in every presidential election from 1992 to 2012. Johnson was the only Democrat prior to 1992 to carry all of the states of that future "blue wall". Democrats would not win Nevada County until 2008; and Inyo County until 2020.

Results

Electoral results
Presidential candidatePartyHome statePopular voteElectoral
vote
Running mate
CountPercentageVice-presidential candidateHome stateElectoral vote
Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Texas 4,171,87759.11%40 Hubert Humphrey Minnesota 40
Barry Goldwater Republican Arizona 2,879,10840.79%0 William E. Miller New York 0
Write-in candidates 5,4100.08%00
Eric Hass Socialist Labor New York 4890.01%0 Henning A. Blomen Massachusetts 0
Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers New York 3780.01%0 Ed Shaw 0
E. Harold Munn Prohibition Party Michigan 3050.00%0 Mark R. Shaw Massachusetts 0
Kirby J. Hensley Universal Party California 190.00%0 Roscoe MacKenna0
Total7,057,586100%4040
Needed to win270270

Results by county

County [3] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Alameda 283,83366.42%142,99833.46%5090.12%140,83532.96%427,340
Alpine 9142.33%12457.67%00.00%-33-15.34%215
Amador 3,41066.89%1,68232.99%60.12%1,72833.90%5,098
Butte 20,83151.54%19,57448.43%140.03%1,2573.11%40,419
Calaveras 3,14558.27%2,24441.58%80.15%90116.69%5,397
Colusa 2,79060.57%1,81139.32%50.11%97921.25%4,606
Contra Costa 113,07163.44%65,01136.47%1630.09%48,06026.97%178,245
Del Norte 3,65263.77%2,07536.23%00.00%1,57727.54%5,727
El Dorado 8,81060.30%5,77539.53%250.17%3,03520.77%14,610
Fresno 89,37565.57%46,79234.33%1410.10%42,58331.24%136,308
Glenn 3,93754.01%3,35145.97%20.02%5868.04%7,290
Humboldt 25,51566.27%12,90933.53%750.20%12,60632.74%38,499
Imperial 11,14351.85%10,33048.06%190.09%8133.79%21,492
Inyo 3,16153.44%2,75146.51%30.05%4106.93%5,915
Kern 64,17458.71%45,01441.18%1200.11%19,16017.53%109,308
Kings 13,07369.39%5,75330.54%140.07%7,32038.85%18,840
Lake 4,68056.37%3,61643.56%60.07%1,06412.81%8,302
Lassen 4,07265.67%2,12434.25%50.08%1,94831.42%6,201
Los Angeles 1,568,30057.43%1,161,06742.52%1,5510.05%407,23314.91%2,730,918
Madera 9,39167.75%4,46132.18%100.07%4,93035.57%13,862
Marin 46,46261.65%28,68238.06%2200.29%17,78023.59%75,364
Mariposa 1,70457.41%1,26442.59%00.00%44014.82%2,968
Mendocino 11,86965.12%6,32234.68%360.20%5,54730.44%18,227
Merced 19,43168.74%8,81431.18%240.08%10,61737.56%28,269
Modoc 1,97258.73%1,38641.27%00.00%58617.46%3,358
Mono 66643.93%85056.07%00.00%-184-12.14%1,516
Monterey 40,09361.83%24,57937.90%1720.27%15,51423.93%64,844
Napa 19,58062.74%11,56737.06%630.20%8,01325.68%31,210
Nevada 6,39756.52%4,89943.29%220.19%1,49813.23%11,318
Orange 176,53944.01%224,19655.89%4300.10%-47,657-11.88%401,165
Placer 18,25665.96%9,38933.92%310.12%8,86732.04%27,676
Plumas 4,01970.35%1,68629.51%80.14%2,33340.84%5,713
Riverside 80,52856.79%61,16543.14%950.07%19,36313.65%141,788
Sacramento 149,66865.68%77,87134.17%3320.15%71,79731.51%227,871
San Benito 3,77960.59%2,44439.19%140.22%1,33521.40%6,237
San Bernardino 123,01257.11%92,14542.78%2430.11%30,86714.33%215,400
San Diego 211,80849.69%214,44550.31%330.00%-2,637-0.62%426,286
San Francisco 230,75871.24%92,99428.71%1560.05%137,76442.53%323,908
San Joaquin 59,21061.78%36,54638.13%830.09%22,66423.65%95,839
San Luis Obispo 22,25259.84%14,90640.08%280.08%7,34619.76%37,186
San Mateo 140,97864.32%77,91635.55%2970.13%63,06228.77%219,191
Santa Barbara 48,38155.94%38,02043.96%850.10%10,36111.98%86,486
Santa Clara 202,24963.10%117,42036.63%8580.27%84,82926.47%320,527
Santa Cruz 26,71458.53%18,83641.27%940.20%7,87817.26%45,644
Shasta 19,14267.52%9,17832.37%300.11%9,96435.15%28,350
Sierra 82866.72%41333.28%00.00%41533.44%1,241
Siskiyou 9,12663.66%5,18636.18%230.16%3,94027.48%14,335
Solano 34,93069.53%15,26330.38%470.09%19,66739.15%50,240
Sonoma 44,35461.49%27,67738.37%1050.14%16,67723.12%72,136
Stanislaus 43,07866.14%21,97333.74%770.12%21,10532.40%65,128
Sutter 6,78748.33%7,24151.56%160.11%-454-3.23%14,044
Tehama 6,92860.42%4,52939.50%100.08%2,39920.92%11,467
Trinity 2,17563.25%1,25236.41%120.34%92326.84%3,439
Tulare 33,97460.08%22,52739.83%510.09%11,44720.25%56,552
Tuolumne 4,93963.16%2,86136.59%200.25%2,07826.57%7,820
Ventura 57,80558.84%40,26440.99%1690.17%17,54117.85%98,238
Yolo 18,26669.52%7,97630.36%320.12%10,29039.16%26,274
Yuba 6,76657.64%4,96442.29%90.07%1,80215.35%11,739
Total4,171,87759.11%2,879,10840.79%6,6010.10%1,292,76918.32%7,057,586

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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