The 1964 United States presidential election in Florida was held November 3, 1964. All contemporary fifty states and the District of Columbia took part, and Florida voters selected fourteen electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Florida was the second-closest state won by Johnson, after Idaho.[1]
Although Johnson won the state amidst his national landslide, Florida weighed in as a massive 20.28% more Republican than the nation at large. Johnson carried 20 of the state's 67 counties, although in only two of them, Monroe and Dade, did he exceed his nationwide vote share of 61.05%.[2]
Retirement communities further south who were supportive of Republicans in presidential elections over the previous fifteen years, were opposed to Barry Goldwater’s desire to privatize Social Security and his criticism of the United States' space program.[4][5]
Lyndon B. Johnson won Florida by 42,599 votes, a margin of 2.30%, or a swing of 5.32% from the 1960 result. Increased registration of black voters, which reached 51%, was crucial to Johnson regaining Florida. In the northern counties of Lafayette and Liberty, where no black people were registered, massive swings toward Goldwater by white voters were completely unmitigated.[6]
Results
Dot map of results by county
1964 United States presidential election in Florida[1]
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