1964 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1964 United States presidential election in Georgia
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  1960 November 3, 1964 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 vote120
Popular vote616,584522,557
Percentage54.12%45.87%

Georgia Presidential Election Results 1964.svg
County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

The 1964 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held on that day throughout all 50 states and The District of Columbia. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Republican nominee and U.S. Senator from Arizona Barry Goldwater carried the state by 8.3 percentage points over incumbent Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson. With his victory, Goldwater became the first Republican to ever carry the state in a presidential election. This was an impressive feat, especially given that Goldwater lost to Lyndon B. Johnson nationally in a landslide. Georgia joined the other Deep South states of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana in supporting the Arizona senator as a protest against the Civil Rights Act, [1] although it did so by a smaller margin – 8.25% – than any other Deep South state Goldwater carried. [2]

This election was the first time since 1836 that a Democrat would win the presidency without carrying Georgia. Georgia was also one of three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being Alaska and Vermont, both of which voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time. Georgia was one of five states that swung more Republican in 1964, alongside Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina. [3] [4]

Campaign

James H. Gray Sr., the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, supported Goldwater. [5] Calvin F. Craig, the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, supported Goldwater as he saw the election as a battle between Goldwater's "Americanism" and Johnson's "socialism". [6] A "Democrats for Goldwater" group was also organized by the "Citizens' Council". [7]

The majority of opinion polls between July and early October [8] suggested that, despite this widespread opposition to Johnson's programs, Goldwater would not win Georgia. In fact, in early August, Georgia was viewed as alongside Arkansas and North Carolina as the most secure southern state for Johnson. [9] Nevertheless, those Democratic Party delegates who refused to support Goldwater because of his policies on rural electrification and subsidies to tobacco farmers were concerned that Goldwater could carry Georgia – and the entire South – as early as late August. [10]

Moreover, in Valdosta in the far south, the region where resistance to black civil rights was most extreme, white union workers in September had been polled as supporting Goldwater 315 to 19, with 1 vote for George Wallace who would carry the state in 1968. [11] By the end of September, it was clear that the state was bitterly divided, with the previously rock-solid Democratic south rooting for Goldwater but defections from Republican support during the previous election in the northern counties appearing to be almost as widespread, [12] because there was some hope Johnson could reverse large population declines and win support through his program of War on Poverty. [13] By the end of October, amidst much campaigning in the state by both Johnson and Goldwater, it was generally thought Georgia was leaning towards the Republicans. [14]

Compared to the previous election, Georgia swung to the Republicans by over 34%, though this masked enormous regional differences. Among the rural areas of the "black belt" and the south of the state, there were enormous swings to Goldwater as the whites – the only people who voted – totally deserted Johnson. [15] For instance, Miller County went from 94% for Kennedy to only 14% for Johnson, and Lee County from 69% for Kennedy to only 19 percent for Johnson.

In contrast, only 55% of those Georgian voters who supported Nixon in 1960 remained with Goldwater. [16] Deserting of the Republicans in pro-Union and almost entirely white Appalachia gave Towns County to the Democrats for the first time since 1952, and nearly switched Gilmer and Pickens Counties. Illustrating the "bifurcated" political change in the state [17] was that while FDR carried the state by 83.83 percentage points in 1932, Herbert Hoover had won Towns County by 48 votes. One of the best examples of Pro-Unionists going to Democrats was Long County, which had only given Kennedy 23 percent of the vote in 1960, but gave Johnson 84% in 1964. [18] [19] Only 55% of those Georgian voters who supported Nixon in 1960 remained with Goldwater. [20] Goldwater received 65% of the white vote. [21]

During the concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third District House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

Results

Pro-Union and almost entirely white Appalachia, which previously supported Republican candidates, gave Towns County to the Democrats for the first time since 1952, and nearly switched Gilmer and Pickens Counties. [22] [23]

General election results [24]
PartyPledged toElectorVotes
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Moye616,600
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Dougherty616,584
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Kaliher616,425
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Howard616,380
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Scholoth616,330
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Kent616,292
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Pickett616,289
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Levison616,284
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Wasden616,244
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Hartness616,197
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Stokes616,017
Republican Party Barry Goldwater Smith615,851
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Sanders522,557
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Fuqua522,457
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Rutland522,425
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Smith522,423
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson Richardson522,408
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Peters522,392
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Gillis522,391
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Fickling522,387
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Lewis522,373
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Carmichael522,196
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Ellard522,189
Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Barnes522,163
Write-in George Wallace 39
Write-in Richard Russell 24
Write-in Richard B. Russell 24
Write-in Herman Talmadge 19
Write-in William Scranton 10
Write-in Adlai Stevenson10
Write-in Geo. Wallace 10
Write-in Richard Nixon 9
Write-in Geo. W. Wallace 7
Write-in Henry Cabot Lodge 6
Write-in Lester Maddox 5
Write-in Robert F. Kennedy 4
Write-in Robert Kennedy 3
Write-in Nelson Rockefeller 3
Write-in Walter Cronkite 2
Write-in Lang Gammon2
Write-in Dick Russell 2
Write-in George C. Wallace 2
Write-in Thomas B. Chapman1
Write-in Clifton Dewberry 1
Write-in Marvin Griffin 1
Write-in Joseph B. Lightburn1
Write-in George Romney 1
Write-in Governor Romney 1
Write-in Dean Rusk 1
Write-in Wm. Scranton 1
Write-in Margaret Chase Smith 1
Write-in Adelaide Stevenson1
Write-in Harry S. Truman 1
Write-in George A. Wallace 1
Write-in Gov. Wallace 1
Write-in Robert Welch1
Total votes1,139,352

Results by county

County [25] Barry Goldwater
Republican
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Various candidates
Write-ins
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Appling 2,59762.44%1,56237.56%1,03524.88%4,159
Atkinson 1,15758.76%81141.19%10.05%34617.57%1,969
Bacon 2,13664.43%1,17935.57%95728.86%3,315
Baker 91460.33%60039.60%10.07%31420.73%1,515
Baldwin 3,43055.59%2,74044.41%69011.18%6,170
Banks 54830.34%1,25869.66%-710-39.32%1,806
Barrow 2,31650.42%2,27749.58%390.84%4,593
Bartow 2,81337.77%4,63562.23%-1,822-24.46%7,448
Ben Hill 2,08957.82%1,52342.15%10.03%56615.67%3,613
Berrien 4,07360.51%2,65839.49%1,41521.02%6,731
Bibb 25,64158.98%17,83141.02%7,81017.96%43,472
Bleckley 2,57872.50%97827.50%1,60045.00%3,556
Brantley 1,23157.52%90942.48%32215.04%2,140
Brooks 2,34269.50%1,02730.47%10.03%1,31539.03%3,370
Bryan 1,43362.58%85737.42%57625.16%2,290
Bulloch 4,82363.94%2,72036.06%2,10327.88%7,543
Burke 3,03471.52%1,20828.48%1,82643.04%4,242
Butts 1,26145.12%1,53454.88%-273-9.76%2,795
Calhoun 1,06678.67%28921.33%77757.34%1,355
Camden 1,80251.56%1,69348.44%1093.12%3,495
Candler 1,71068.26%79531.74%91536.52%2,505
Carroll 4,98450.96%4,79449.02%20.02%1901.94%9,780
Catoosa 4,14358.59%2,92241.32%60.08%1,22117.27%7,071
Charlton 1,17967.26%57432.74%60534.52%1,753
Chatham 33,14158.85%23,17641.15%10.00%9,96517.70%56,318
Chattahoochee 24656.29%19143.71%5512.58%437
Chattooga 1,47627.01%3,98672.94%30.05%-2,510-45.93%5,465
Cherokee 3,39851.59%3,18948.41%2093.18%6,587
Clarke 4,87539.33%7,51960.67%-2,644-21.34%12,394
Clay 54460.04%36039.74%20.22%18420.30%906
Clayton 10,48864.08%5,86935.86%100.06%4,61928.22%16,367
Clinch 1,08460.56%70639.44%37821.12%1,790
Cobb 20,86355.62%16,64744.38%10.00%4,21611.24%37,511
Coffee 4,39261.76%2,71938.24%1,67323.52%7,111
Colquitt 6,49371.67%2,56328.29%40.04%3,93043.38%9,060
Columbia 2,57564.33%1,42835.67%1,14728.66%4,003
Cook 2,05860.62%1,33739.38%72121.24%3,395
Coweta 3,65649.62%3,71250.38%-56-0.76%7,368
Crawford 95756.96%72343.04%23413.92%1,680
Crisp 3,33765.52%1,75634.48%1,58131.04%5,093
Dade 1,37852.84%1,22747.05%30.12%1515.79%2,608
Dawson 63940.67%93259.33%-293-18.66%1,571
Decatur 5,06071.55%2,01128.44%10.01%3,04943.11%7,072
DeKalb 49,44857.10%37,15442.90%12,29414.20%86,602
Dodge 3,28558.03%2,37641.97%90916.06%5,661
Dooly 1,66253.05%1,47146.95%1916.10%3,133
Dougherty 12,77670.88%5,24829.12%7,52841.76%18,024
Douglas 3,31557.00%2,50143.00%81414.00%5,816
Early 2,39875.67%77124.33%1,62751.34%3,169
Echols 39968.44%18431.56%21536.88%583
Effingham 2,67679.74%68020.26%1,99659.48%3,356
Elbert 1,88737.30%3,17262.70%-1,285-25.40%5,059
Emanuel 3,31159.23%2,27940.77%1,03218.46%5,590
Evans 1,57266.30%79933.70%77332.60%2,371
Fannin 3,43354.77%2,83445.21%10.02%5999.56%6,268
Fayette 1,34959.98%89639.84%40.18%45320.14%2,249
Floyd 9,84952.85%8,75046.95%370.20%1,0995.90%18,636
Forsyth 1,47146.64%1,68253.33%10.03%-211-6.69%3,154
Franklin 86423.84%2,75876.10%20.06%-1,894-52.26%3,624
Fulton 73,20543.90%93,54056.09%110.01%-20,335-12.19%166,756
Gilmer 2,16750.09%2,15949.91%80.18%4,326
Glascock 83686.19%13413.81%70272.38%970
Glynn 7,34156.22%5,71243.75%40.03%1,62912.47%13,057
Gordon 2,31741.55%3,26058.45%-943-16.90%5,577
Grady 2,98361.25%1,88738.75%1,09622.50%4,870
Greene 1,09328.83%2,69871.17%-1,605-42.34%3,791
Gwinnett 6,82350.42%6,70549.55%30.02%1180.87%13,531
Habersham 1,59531.84%3,41268.12%20.04%-1,817-36.28%5,009
Hall 4,29634.90%8,00365.01%110.09%-3,707-30.11%12,310
Hancock 92546.27%1,07453.73%-149-7.46%1,999
Haralson 3,12958.85%2,18641.11%20.04%94317.74%5,317
Harris 2,16669.74%94030.26%1,22639.48%3,106
Hart 1,16627.00%3,14272.77%100.23%-1,976-45.77%4,318
Heard 80743.18%1,06156.77%10.05%-254-13.59%1,869
Henry 3,12546.58%3,58353.41%10.01%-458-6.83%6,709
Houston 6,53260.53%4,25839.46%10.01%2,27421.07%10,791
Irwin 2,01773.16%74026.84%1,27746.32%2,757
Jackson 1,66429.62%3,95370.38%-2,289-40.76%5,617
Jasper 1,07555.90%84844.10%22711.80%1,923
Jeff Davis 1,87571.56%74528.44%1,13043.12%2,620
Jefferson 2,95070.15%1,25329.80%20.05%1,69740.35%4,205
Jenkins 1,50962.43%90837.57%60124.86%2,417
Johnson 1,94073.99%68226.01%1,25847.98%2,622
Jones 1,80556.67%1,38043.33%42513.34%3,185
Lamar 1,57050.30%1,54849.60%30.10%220.70%3,121
Lanier 71952.10%66147.90%584.20%1,380
Laurens 5,45758.76%3,82841.22%20.02%1,62917.54%9,287
Lee 1,04181.01%24418.99%79762.02%1,285
Liberty 1,45839.73%2,21260.27%-754-20.54%3,670
Lincoln 94372.76%35327.24%59045.52%1,296
Long 24615.55%1,33684.45%-1,090-68.90%1,582
Lowndes 6,81160.95%4,36339.04%10.01%2,44821.91%11,175
Lumpkin 85541.81%1,18958.14%10.05%-334-16.33%2,045
Macon 1,72361.56%1,07638.44%64723.12%2,799
Madison 1,19033.70%2,34166.30%-1,151-32.60%3,531
Marion 71966.27%36533.64%10.09%35432.63%1,085
McDuffie 2,65770.27%1,12429.73%1,53340.54%3,781
McIntosh 79539.99%1,19360.01%-398-20.02%1,988
Meriwether 2,25048.14%2,42351.84%10.02%-173-3.70%4,674
Miller 1,65885.82%27414.18%1,38471.64%1,932
Mitchell 3,26573.17%1,19726.83%2,06846.34%4,462
Monroe 1,66551.33%1,57848.64%10.03%872.69%3,244
Montgomery 1,40961.61%87838.39%53123.22%2,287
Morgan 1,48547.31%1,65452.69%-169-5.38%3,139
Murray 1,06430.44%2,42669.41%50.14%-1,362-38.97%3,495
Muscogee 21,02562.81%12,44637.18%30.01%8,57925.63%33,474
Newton 2,67842.52%3,62057.48%-942-14.96%6,298
Oconee 1,24153.63%1,07346.37%1687.26%2,314
Oglethorpe 1,12656.58%86443.42%26213.16%1,990
Paulding 1,91443.23%2,51356.77%-599-13.54%4,427
Peach 1,97055.40%1,58544.57%10.03%38510.83%3,556
Pickens 1,95550.32%1,93049.68%250.64%3,885
Pierce 1,98166.86%98233.14%99933.72%2,963
Pike 1,06452.94%94647.06%1185.88%2,010
Polk 3,28241.86%4,55558.10%30.04%-1,273-16.24%7,840
Pulaski 1,76864.86%95334.96%50.18%81529.90%2,726
Putnam 1,19654.02%1,01845.98%1788.04%2,214
Quitman 37762.11%23037.89%14724.22%607
Rabun 55123.48%1,79676.52%-1,245-53.04%2,347
Randolph 1,65663.18%96236.70%30.11%69426.48%2,621
Richmond 21,48161.32%13,54538.67%30.01%7,93622.65%35,029
Rockdale 1,50343.25%1,97256.75%-469-13.50%3,475
Schley 57760.48%37739.52%20020.96%954
Screven 2,26060.98%1,44639.02%81421.96%3,706
Seminole 1,29475.19%42724.81%86750.38%1,721
Spalding 4,76346.56%5,46653.44%-703-6.88%10,229
Stephens 1,37128.24%3,48371.76%-2,112-43.52%4,854
Stewart 1,03773.39%37326.40%30.21%66446.99%1,413
Sumter 3,77468.61%1,72731.39%2,04737.22%5,501
Talbot 67951.99%62748.01%523.98%1,306
Taliaferro 33734.92%62865.08%-291-30.16%965
Tattnall 3,26466.45%1,64833.55%1,61632.90%4,912
Taylor 1,37255.55%1,09744.41%10.04%27511.14%2,470
Telfair 1,91450.55%1,87249.45%421.10%3,786
Terrell 1,92177.15%56922.85%1,35254.30%2,490
Thomas 6,30665.94%3,25734.06%3,04931.88%9,563
Tift 4,65067.04%2,28632.96%2,36434.08%6,936
Toombs 3,54367.77%1,68532.23%1,85835.54%5,228
Towns 1,14046.88%1,28953.00%30.12%-149-6.12%2,432
Treutlen 72235.15%1,33164.80%10.05%-609-29.65%2,054
Troup 5,27746.66%6,03253.34%-755-6.68%11,309
Turner 1,67269.93%71930.07%95339.86%2,391
Twiggs 1,17859.98%78640.02%39219.96%1,964
Union 1,47340.83%2,13559.17%-662-18.34%3,608
Upson 3,10348.61%3,27551.30%60.09%-172-2.69%6,384
Walker 5,93952.09%5,45447.84%80.07%4854.25%11,401
Walton 2,87454.99%2,35044.97%20.04%52410.02%5,226
Ware 4,94848.81%5,18951.19%-241-2.38%10,137
Warren 1,07073.59%38426.41%68647.18%1,454
Washington 2,29655.63%1,83044.34%10.02%46611.29%4,127
Wayne 3,61962.39%2,18237.61%1,43724.78%5,801
Webster 45776.04%14423.96%31352.08%601
Wheeler 84946.42%98053.58%-131-7.16%1,829
White 84035.55%1,52064.33%30.13%-680-28.78%2,363
Whitfield 4,54638.27%7,33061.70%40.03%-2,784-23.43%11,880
Wilcox 1,79466.59%90033.41%89433.18%2,694
Wilkes 1,65253.48%1,43746.52%2156.96%3,089
Wilkinson 2,17269.28%96330.72%1,20938.56%3,135
Worth 3,15778.55%86221.45%2,29557.10%4,019
Totals616,58454.12%522,55745.87%1950.02%94,0278.25%1,139,336

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The 1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 1968. Mississippi voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President. During the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement dictated Mississippi's politics, with effectively the entire white population vehemently opposed to federal policies of racial desegregation and black voting rights. In 1960, the state had been narrowly captured by a slate of unpledged Democratic electors, but in 1964 universal white opposition to the Civil Rights Act and negligible black voter registration meant that white Mississippians turned almost unanimously to Republican Barry Goldwater. Goldwater's support for "constitutional government and local self-rule" meant that the absence from the ballot of "states' rights" parties or unpledged electors was unimportant. The Arizona Senator was one of only six Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act, and so the small electorate of Mississippi supported him almost unanimously.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1964 United States presidential election in Florida</span>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1956 United States presidential election in Mississippi</span>

The 1956 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 6, 1956. Mississippi voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina</span>

The 1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1964 United States presidential election in Maine</span>

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

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1928 United States presidential election in Georgia</span>

The 1928 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1888 United States presidential election in Georgia</span>

The 1888 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1884 United States presidential election in Georgia</span>

The 1884 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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