1964 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1964 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater Party Democratic Republican Home state Texas Arizona Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller Electoral vote 13 0 Popular vote 1,170,848 911,118 Percentage 55.98% 43.56%

County Results Johnson   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Goldwater   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

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]

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 ^[update] , 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]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.)	1,170,848	55.98%
	Republican	Barry Goldwater	911,118	43.56%
	Prohibition	E. Harold Munn	8,266	0.40%
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	1,374	0.07%
Total votes			2,091,606	100%

Results by county

County	Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic		Barry Goldwater Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast [7]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adams	6,637	60.48%	4,230	38.55%	106	0.97%	2,407	21.93%	10,973
Allen	50,706	50.53%	49,284	49.11%	363	0.36%	1,422	1.42%	100,353
Bartholomew	12,940	53.72%	11,026	45.77%	124	0.51%	1,914	7.95%	24,090
Benton	2,940	50.42%	2,886	49.49%	5	0.09%	54	0.93%	5,831
Blackford	4,210	61.65%	2,552	37.37%	67	0.98%	1,658	24.28%	6,829
Boone	6,716	47.36%	7,419	52.32%	46	0.32%	-703	-4.96%	14,181
Brown	2,135	60.24%	1,390	39.22%	19	0.54%	745	21.02%	3,544
Carroll	4,789	54.96%	3,896	44.71%	29	0.33%	893	10.25%	8,714
Cass	11,148	58.74%	7,735	40.76%	95	0.50%	3,413	17.98%	18,978
Clark	17,330	68.89%	7,701	30.61%	125	0.50%	9,629	38.28%	25,156
Clay	6,528	54.28%	5,412	45.00%	86	0.72%	1,116	9.28%	12,026
Clinton	8,353	53.61%	7,157	45.93%	72	0.46%	1,196	7.68%	15,582
Crawford	2,514	57.40%	1,828	41.74%	38	0.87%	686	15.66%	4,380
Daviess	6,528	50.62%	6,319	49.00%	48	0.37%	209	1.62%	12,895
Dearborn	7,699	58.33%	5,473	41.47%	26	0.20%	2,226	16.86%	13,198
Decatur	5,564	53.94%	4,702	45.58%	49	0.48%	862	8.36%	10,315
DeKalb	7,559	54.42%	6,210	44.71%	120	0.86%	1,349	9.71%	13,889
Delaware	28,469	58.48%	20,022	41.13%	187	0.38%	8,447	17.35%	48,678
Dubois	10,114	72.56%	3,800	27.26%	25	0.18%	6,314	45.30%	13,939
Elkhart	21,679	51.72%	19,870	47.41%	365	0.87%	1,809	4.31%	41,914
Fayette	6,713	58.92%	4,637	40.70%	43	0.38%	2,076	18.22%	11,393
Floyd	15,656	66.23%	7,834	33.14%	148	0.63%	7,822	33.09%	23,638
Fountain	5,574	54.23%	4,666	45.40%	38	0.37%	908	8.83%	10,278
Franklin	4,021	57.48%	2,956	42.26%	18	0.26%	1,065	15.22%	6,995
Fulton	4,374	49.60%	4,410	50.01%	34	0.39%	-36	-0.41%	8,818
Gibson	10,507	63.84%	5,865	35.64%	86	0.52%	4,642	28.20%	16,458
Grant	17,574	54.08%	14,688	45.20%	232	0.71%	2,886	8.88%	32,494
Greene	8,574	58.85%	5,919	40.62%	77	0.53%	2,655	18.23%	14,570
Hamilton	7,553	38.38%	12,060	61.28%	68	0.35%	-4,507	-22.90%	19,681
Hancock	6,573	50.59%	6,370	49.03%	50	0.38%	203	1.56%	12,993
Harrison	5,949	61.28%	3,671	37.81%	88	0.91%	2,278	23.47%	9,708
Hendricks	8,857	43.41%	11,497	56.34%	51	0.25%	-2,640	-12.93%	20,405
Henry	12,374	54.52%	10,184	44.87%	139	0.61%	2,190	9.65%	22,697
Howard	17,809	57.56%	12,897	41.68%	235	0.76%	4,912	15.88%	30,941
Huntington	9,308	55.26%	7,438	44.16%	98	0.58%	1,870	11.10%	16,844
Jackson	8,572	57.26%	6,285	41.98%	114	0.76%	2,287	15.28%	14,971
Jasper	3,995	46.91%	4,497	52.81%	24	0.28%	-502	-5.90%	8,516
Jay	6,781	59.91%	4,439	39.22%	98	0.87%	2,342	20.69%	11,318
Jefferson	6,694	57.78%	4,808	41.50%	84	0.73%	1,886	16.28%	11,586
Jennings	4,307	55.14%	3,469	44.41%	35	0.45%	838	10.73%	7,811
Johnson	10,099	48.87%	10,472	50.68%	92	0.45%	-373	-1.81%	20,663
Knox	12,678	62.11%	7,612	37.29%	121	0.59%	5,066	24.82%	20,411
Kosciusko	8,759	45.18%	10,488	54.10%	141	0.73%	-1,729	-8.92%	19,388
LaGrange	2,818	49.96%	2,785	49.38%	37	0.66%	33	0.58%	5,640
Lake	134,978	64.42%	73,722	35.19%	823	0.39%	61,256	29.23%	209,523
LaPorte	22,220	57.57%	16,270	42.16%	104	0.27%	5,950	15.41%	38,594
Lawrence	8,677	51.17%	8,186	48.28%	93	0.55%	491	2.89%	16,956
Madison	33,325	57.73%	24,171	41.87%	233	0.40%	9,154	15.86%	57,729
Marion	152,418	51.43%	143,015	48.25%	948	0.32%	9,403	3.18%	296,381
Marshall	8,397	51.15%	7,895	48.10%	123	0.75%	502	3.05%	16,415
Martin	3,137	60.96%	2,000	38.87%	9	0.17%	1,137	22.09%	5,146
Miami	7,667	54.53%	6,270	44.59%	123	0.87%	1,397	9.94%	14,060
Monroe	11,918	53.27%	10,309	46.08%	145	0.65%	1,609	7.19%	22,372
Montgomery	8,042	50.48%	7,823	49.11%	65	0.41%	219	1.37%	15,930
Morgan	7,011	45.44%	8,347	54.10%	70	0.45%	-1,336	-8.66%	15,428
Newton	2,547	47.70%	2,780	52.06%	13	0.24%	-233	-4.36%	5,340
Noble	7,621	57.03%	5,682	42.52%	60	0.45%	1,939	14.51%	13,363
Ohio	1,397	60.53%	905	39.21%	6	0.26%	492	21.32%	2,308
Orange	4,490	51.55%	4,187	48.07%	33	0.38%	303	3.48%	8,710
Owen	3,339	54.20%	2,788	45.26%	33	0.54%	551	8.94%	6,160
Parke	4,034	52.93%	3,570	46.84%	17	0.22%	464	6.09%	7,621
Perry	6,226	66.65%	3,090	33.08%	25	0.27%	3,136	33.57%	9,341
Pike	4,519	62.14%	2,703	37.17%	50	0.69%	1,816	24.97%	7,272
Porter	12,975	47.00%	14,480	52.45%	152	0.55%	-1,505	-5.45%	27,607
Posey	6,164	63.09%	3,573	36.57%	33	0.34%	2,591	26.52%	9,770
Pulaski	3,408	51.37%	3,202	48.27%	24	0.36%	206	3.10%	6,634
Putnam	6,275	53.96%	5,331	45.84%	24	0.21%	944	8.12%	11,630
Randolph	6,804	50.38%	6,551	48.50%	151	1.12%	253	1.88%	13,506
Ripley	5,933	56.23%	4,587	43.47%	32	0.30%	1,346	12.76%	10,552
Rush	4,450	49.31%	4,507	49.94%	68	0.75%	-57	-0.63%	9,025
St. Joseph	65,844	61.91%	39,872	37.49%	630	0.59%	25,972	24.42%	106,346
Scott	4,205	67.79%	1,992	32.11%	6	0.10%	2,213	35.68%	6,203
Shelby	9,078	55.17%	7,310	44.42%	67	0.41%	1,768	10.75%	16,455
Spencer	4,834	54.72%	3,980	45.05%	20	0.23%	854	9.67%	8,834
Starke	4,838	58.14%	3,466	41.65%	17	0.20%	1,372	16.49%	8,321
Steuben	3,999	49.34%	4,075	50.28%	31	0.38%	-76	-0.94%	8,105
Sullivan	7,351	65.28%	3,867	34.34%	42	0.37%	3,484	30.94%	11,260
Switzerland	2,231	61.29%	1,390	38.19%	19	0.52%	841	23.10%	3,640
Tippecanoe	20,257	51.45%	19,036	48.35%	79	0.20%	1,221	3.10%	39,372
Tipton	4,410	53.03%	3,863	46.45%	43	0.52%	547	6.58%	8,316
Union	1,463	48.69%	1,531	50.95%	11	0.37%	-68	-2.26%	3,005
Vanderburgh	45,796	62.39%	27,231	37.10%	380	0.52%	18,565	25.29%	73,407
Vermillion	5,957	63.49%	3,397	36.21%	28	0.30%	2,560	27.28%	9,382
Vigo	27,606	59.05%	19,001	40.64%	144	0.31%	8,605	18.41%	46,751
Wabash	7,485	51.50%	6,905	47.51%	145	1.00%	580	3.99%	14,535
Warren	2,261	51.10%	2,154	48.68%	10	0.23%	107	2.42%	4,425
Warrick	7,222	62.04%	4,376	37.59%	42	0.36%	2,846	24.45%	11,640
Washington	4,943	57.66%	3,598	41.97%	32	0.37%	1,345	15.69%	8,573
Wayne	15,269	49.70%	15,342	49.93%	113	0.37%	-73	-0.23%	30,724
Wells	5,945	59.12%	4,018	39.96%	92	0.91%	1,927	19.16%	10,055
White	5,407	51.72%	5,015	47.97%	33	0.32%	392	3.75%	10,455
Whitley	5,798	53.95%	4,896	45.56%	53	0.49%	902	8.39%	10,747
Totals	1,170,848	55.98%	911,118	43.56%	9,640	0.46%	259,730	12.42%	2,091,606

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Delaware
• Madison
• Spencer
• Starke
• Tippecanoe
• Vanderburgh
• Crawford
• Gibson
• Jefferson
• Knox
• Pike
• Posey
• Scott
• Sullivan
• Adams
• Allen
• Bartholomew
• Benton
• Brown
• Blackford
• Carroll
• Cass
• Clay
• Clinton
• Daviess
• Decatur
• Dearborn
• DeKalb
• Elkhart
• Fayette
• Fountain
• Franklin
• Grant
• Greene
• Hancock
• Harrison
• Henry
• Howard
• Huntington
• Jackson
• Jay
• Jennings
• LaGrange
• LaPorte
• Lawrence
• Marshall
• Martin
• Marion
• Miami
• Montgomery
• Monroe
• Noble
• Ohio
• Orange
• Owen
• Parke
• Pulaski
• Putnam
• Randolph
• Ripley
• Shelby
• Tipton
• Wabash
• Warren
• Warrick
• Washington
• Wells
• White
• Whitley

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

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

• Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN   0674941306.