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 Goldwater and Miller (cropped).jpg
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.

Contents

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. This is also the most recent Presidential election where Los Angeles County voted more Republican than the state as a whole.

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. Johnson is also the last Democrat to carry the counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Kern, Modoc and Tulare, and the last to win the majority of the vote in Butte, El Dorado, Inyo, Kings, Mariposa, Siskiyou and Tuolumne counties, although one or more of Hubert Humphrey, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have won a plurality in those counties. [2]

This was the last election in which California did not register the most votes cast by state. This was also 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 Marin County again until 1984; Sonoma County until 1988; Imperial, Monterey, San Benito Santa Barbara, San Joaquin, San Bernardino, Siskiyou, Riverside, Butte, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties until 1992; 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

[3]

County Johnson Votes Goldwater VotesOthersVotes
San Francisco 71.24%230,75828.71%92,9940.05%156
Plumas 70.35%4,01929.51%1,6860.14%8
Solano 69.53%34,93030.38%15,2630.09%47
Yolo 69.52%18,26630.36%7,9760.12%32
Kings 69.39%13,07330.54%5,7530.07%14
Merced 68.74%19,43131.18%8,8140.08%24
Madera 67.75%9,39132.18%4,4610.07%10
Shasta 67.52%19,14232.37%9,1780.11%30
Amador 66.89%3,41032.99%1,6820.12%6
Sierra 66.72%82833.28%4130.00%0
Alameda 66.42%283,83333.46%142,9980.12%509
Humboldt 66.27%25,51533.53%12,9090.19%75
Stanislaus 66.14%43,07833.74%21,9730.12%77
Placer 65.96%18,25633.92%9,3890.11%31
Sacramento 65.68%149,66834.17%77,8710.15%332
Lassen 65.67%4,07234.25%2,1240.08%5
Fresno 65.57%89,37534.33%46,7920.10%141
Mendocino 65.12%11,86934.68%6,3220.20%36
San Mateo 64.32%140,97835.55%77,9160.14%297
Del Norte 63.77%3,65236.23%2,0750.00%0
Siskiyou 63.66%9,12636.18%5,1860.16%23
Contra Costa 63.44%113,07136.47%65,0110.09%163
Trinity 63.25%2,17536.41%1,2520.35%12
Tuolumne 63.16%4,93936.59%2,8610.26%20
Santa Clara 63.10%202,24936.63%117,4200.27%858
Napa 62.74%19,58037.06%11,5670.20%63
Monterey 61.83%40,09337.90%24,5790.27%172
San Joaquin 61.78%59,21038.13%36,5460.09%83
Marin 61.65%46,46238.06%28,6820.29%220
Sonoma 61.49%44,35438.37%27,6770.15%105
San Benito 60.59%3,77939.19%2,4440.22%14
Colusa 60.57%2,79039.32%1,8110.11%5
Tehama 60.42%6,92839.50%4,5290.09%10
El Dorado 60.30%8,81039.53%5,7750.17%25
Tulare 60.08%33,97439.83%22,5270.09%51
San Luis Obispo 59.84%22,25240.08%14,9060.08%28
Ventura 58.84%57,80540.99%40,2640.17%169
Modoc 58.73%1,97241.27%1,3860.00%0
Kern 58.71%64,17441.18%45,0140.11%120
Santa Cruz 58.53%26,71441.27%18,8360.21%94
Calaveras 58.27%3,14541.58%2,2440.15%8
Yuba 57.64%6,76642.29%4,9640.08%9
Los Angeles 57.43%1,568,30042.52%1,161,0670.06%1,551
Mariposa 57.41%1,70442.59%1,2640.00%0
San Bernardino 57.11%123,01242.78%92,1450.11%243
Riverside 56.79%80,52843.14%61,1650.07%95
Nevada 56.52%6,39743.29%4,8990.19%22
Lake 56.37%4,68043.56%3,6160.07%6
Santa Barbara 55.94%48,38143.96%38,0200.10%85
Glenn 54.01%3,93745.97%3,3510.03%2
Inyo 53.44%3,16146.51%2,7510.05%3
Imperial 51.85%11,14348.06%10,3300.09%19
Butte 51.54%20,83148.43%19,5740.03%14
San Diego 49.69%211,80850.31%214,4450.01%33
Sutter 48.33%6,78751.56%7,2410.11%16
Orange 44.01%176,53955.89%224,1960.11%430
Mono 43.93%66656.07%8500.00%0
Alpine 42.33%9157.67%1240.00%0

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