1964 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1964 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of Indiana.svg
  1960 November 3, 1964 1968  
  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 vote130
Popular vote1,170,848911,118
Percentage55.98%43.56%

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County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 [1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. George Wallace ran in the Democratic primary, but was defeated by Governor Matthew E. Welsh, who served as a surrogate for Johnson. [2]

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This is the only time that Randolph County and Wabash County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [3] This was also the first time Indiana voted Democratic since 1936. [4] As of the 2024 presidential election , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Allen, Adams, Bartholomew, Brown, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fayette, Fountain, Franklin, Grant, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jay, Jennings, LaGrange, Lawrence, Marshall, Miami, Montgomery, Noble, Orange, Parke, Pulaski, Putnam, Ripley, Shelby, Tipton, Warren, Wells, White, and Whitley. [5]

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Indiana [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) 1,170,848 55.98%
Republican Barry Goldwater 911,11843.56%
Prohibition E. Harold Munn 8,2660.40%
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 1,3740.07%
Total votes2,091,606 100%

Results by county

CountyLyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [7]
#%#%#%#%
Adams 6,63760.48%4,23038.55%1060.97%2,40721.93%10,973
Allen 50,70650.53%49,28449.11%3630.36%1,4221.42%100,353
Bartholomew 12,94053.72%11,02645.77%1240.51%1,9147.95%24,090
Benton 2,94050.42%2,88649.49%50.09%540.93%5,831
Blackford 4,21061.65%2,55237.37%670.98%1,65824.28%6,829
Boone 6,71647.36%7,41952.32%460.32%-703-4.96%14,181
Brown 2,13560.24%1,39039.22%190.54%74521.02%3,544
Carroll 4,78954.96%3,89644.71%290.33%89310.25%8,714
Cass 11,14858.74%7,73540.76%950.50%3,41317.98%18,978
Clark 17,33068.89%7,70130.61%1250.50%9,62938.28%25,156
Clay 6,52854.28%5,41245.00%860.72%1,1169.28%12,026
Clinton 8,35353.61%7,15745.93%720.46%1,1967.68%15,582
Crawford 2,51457.40%1,82841.74%380.87%68615.66%4,380
Daviess 6,52850.62%6,31949.00%480.37%2091.62%12,895
Dearborn 7,69958.33%5,47341.47%260.20%2,22616.86%13,198
Decatur 5,56453.94%4,70245.58%490.48%8628.36%10,315
DeKalb 7,55954.42%6,21044.71%1200.86%1,3499.71%13,889
Delaware 28,46958.48%20,02241.13%1870.38%8,44717.35%48,678
Dubois 10,11472.56%3,80027.26%250.18%6,31445.30%13,939
Elkhart 21,67951.72%19,87047.41%3650.87%1,8094.31%41,914
Fayette 6,71358.92%4,63740.70%430.38%2,07618.22%11,393
Floyd 15,65666.23%7,83433.14%1480.63%7,82233.09%23,638
Fountain 5,57454.23%4,66645.40%380.37%9088.83%10,278
Franklin 4,02157.48%2,95642.26%180.26%1,06515.22%6,995
Fulton 4,37449.60%4,41050.01%340.39%-36-0.41%8,818
Gibson 10,50763.84%5,86535.64%860.52%4,64228.20%16,458
Grant 17,57454.08%14,68845.20%2320.71%2,8868.88%32,494
Greene 8,57458.85%5,91940.62%770.53%2,65518.23%14,570
Hamilton 7,55338.38%12,06061.28%680.35%-4,507-22.90%19,681
Hancock 6,57350.59%6,37049.03%500.38%2031.56%12,993
Harrison 5,94961.28%3,67137.81%880.91%2,27823.47%9,708
Hendricks 8,85743.41%11,49756.34%510.25%-2,640-12.93%20,405
Henry 12,37454.52%10,18444.87%1390.61%2,1909.65%22,697
Howard 17,80957.56%12,89741.68%2350.76%4,91215.88%30,941
Huntington 9,30855.26%7,43844.16%980.58%1,87011.10%16,844
Jackson 8,57257.26%6,28541.98%1140.76%2,28715.28%14,971
Jasper 3,99546.91%4,49752.81%240.28%-502-5.90%8,516
Jay 6,78159.91%4,43939.22%980.87%2,34220.69%11,318
Jefferson 6,69457.78%4,80841.50%840.73%1,88616.28%11,586
Jennings 4,30755.14%3,46944.41%350.45%83810.73%7,811
Johnson 10,09948.87%10,47250.68%920.45%-373-1.81%20,663
Knox 12,67862.11%7,61237.29%1210.59%5,06624.82%20,411
Kosciusko 8,75945.18%10,48854.10%1410.73%-1,729-8.92%19,388
LaGrange 2,81849.96%2,78549.38%370.66%330.58%5,640
Lake 134,97864.42%73,72235.19%8230.39%61,25629.23%209,523
LaPorte 22,22057.57%16,27042.16%1040.27%5,95015.41%38,594
Lawrence 8,67751.17%8,18648.28%930.55%4912.89%16,956
Madison 33,32557.73%24,17141.87%2330.40%9,15415.86%57,729
Marion 152,41851.43%143,01548.25%9480.32%9,4033.18%296,381
Marshall 8,39751.15%7,89548.10%1230.75%5023.05%16,415
Martin 3,13760.96%2,00038.87%90.17%1,13722.09%5,146
Miami 7,66754.53%6,27044.59%1230.87%1,3979.94%14,060
Monroe 11,91853.27%10,30946.08%1450.65%1,6097.19%22,372
Montgomery 8,04250.48%7,82349.11%650.41%2191.37%15,930
Morgan 7,01145.44%8,34754.10%700.45%-1,336-8.66%15,428
Newton 2,54747.70%2,78052.06%130.24%-233-4.36%5,340
Noble 7,62157.03%5,68242.52%600.45%1,93914.51%13,363
Ohio 1,39760.53%90539.21%60.26%49221.32%2,308
Orange 4,49051.55%4,18748.07%330.38%3033.48%8,710
Owen 3,33954.20%2,78845.26%330.54%5518.94%6,160
Parke 4,03452.93%3,57046.84%170.22%4646.09%7,621
Perry 6,22666.65%3,09033.08%250.27%3,13633.57%9,341
Pike 4,51962.14%2,70337.17%500.69%1,81624.97%7,272
Porter 12,97547.00%14,48052.45%1520.55%-1,505-5.45%27,607
Posey 6,16463.09%3,57336.57%330.34%2,59126.52%9,770
Pulaski 3,40851.37%3,20248.27%240.36%2063.10%6,634
Putnam 6,27553.96%5,33145.84%240.21%9448.12%11,630
Randolph 6,80450.38%6,55148.50%1511.12%2531.88%13,506
Ripley 5,93356.23%4,58743.47%320.30%1,34612.76%10,552
Rush 4,45049.31%4,50749.94%680.75%-57-0.63%9,025
St. Joseph 65,84461.91%39,87237.49%6300.59%25,97224.42%106,346
Scott 4,20567.79%1,99232.11%60.10%2,21335.68%6,203
Shelby 9,07855.17%7,31044.42%670.41%1,76810.75%16,455
Spencer 4,83454.72%3,98045.05%200.23%8549.67%8,834
Starke 4,83858.14%3,46641.65%170.20%1,37216.49%8,321
Steuben 3,99949.34%4,07550.28%310.38%-76-0.94%8,105
Sullivan 7,35165.28%3,86734.34%420.37%3,48430.94%11,260
Switzerland 2,23161.29%1,39038.19%190.52%84123.10%3,640
Tippecanoe 20,25751.45%19,03648.35%790.20%1,2213.10%39,372
Tipton 4,41053.03%3,86346.45%430.52%5476.58%8,316
Union 1,46348.69%1,53150.95%110.37%-68-2.26%3,005
Vanderburgh 45,79662.39%27,23137.10%3800.52%18,56525.29%73,407
Vermillion 5,95763.49%3,39736.21%280.30%2,56027.28%9,382
Vigo 27,60659.05%19,00140.64%1440.31%8,60518.41%46,751
Wabash 7,48551.50%6,90547.51%1451.00%5803.99%14,535
Warren 2,26151.10%2,15448.68%100.23%1072.42%4,425
Warrick 7,22262.04%4,37637.59%420.36%2,84624.45%11,640
Washington 4,94357.66%3,59841.97%320.37%1,34515.69%8,573
Wayne 15,26949.70%15,34249.93%1130.37%-73-0.23%30,724
Wells 5,94559.12%4,01839.96%920.91%1,92719.16%10,055
White 5,40751.72%5,01547.97%330.32%3923.75%10,455
Whitley 5,79853.95%4,89645.56%530.49%9028.39%10,747
Totals1,170,84855.98%911,11843.56%9,6400.46%259,73012.42%2,091,606

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)" . Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  2. Black & Black 1992, p. 160.
  3. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 187-192 ISBN   0786422173
  4. "Indiana Presidential Election Voting History". 270toWin. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
  5. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  6. "1964 Presidential General Election Results – Indiana" . Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  7. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 147-148 ISBN   0405077114

Works cited