1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska

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1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska
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  1960 November 3, 1964 [1] 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 vote50
Popular vote307,307276,847
Percentage52.61%47.39%

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County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

The 1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose five [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Nebraska was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (DTexas), with 52.61% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (RArizona), with 47.39% of the popular vote. [3] [4]

President Johnson became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 to win the state. Nebraska was Johnson's weakest in the Great Plains region, and one of two where he did not win every congressional district, the other being Oklahoma. Senator Goldwater carried the state's 3rd district which encompassed the western half of the state, while Johnson carried the 1st and 2nd in the eastern half. Johnson carried 38 counties to Goldwater's 55. Nebraska weighed in as 17.36% more Republican than the national average.

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last time the Democratic candidate won Nebraska at large, the 1st congressional district, as well as Adams County, Sarpy County, Cass County, Washington County, Saunders County, Gage County, Dixon County, Nemaha County, Richardson County, Boone County, Lincoln County, Polk County, Fillmore County, Johnson County, Cedar County, Buffalo County, Seward County, Hall County, Jefferson County, Thayer County, Webster County, Platte County, Nuckolls County, Clay County, Colfax County, Franklin County, Howard County, Nance County, Logan County, and Kearney County. Douglas County and Lancaster County would not vote Democratic again until 2008. [5] Barack Obama would later win the state's 2nd congressional district in 2008 and received one electoral vote from the state. Joe Biden, Obama's running mate in 2008, did the same in 2020. Nebraska as a whole, however, has remained a safely Republican state, and has voted Republican by double-digits in every subsequent election.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) 307,307 52.61%
Republican Barry Goldwater 276,84747.39%
Total votes584,154 100%

Results by county

County [6] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Barry Goldwater
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%
Adams 6,44153.55%5,58646.45%8557.10%12,027
Antelope 2,00443.85%2,56656.15%-562-12.30%4,570
Arthur 12634.15%24365.85%-117-31.70%369
Banner 19635.44%35764.56%-161-29.12%553
Blaine 19537.43%32662.57%-131-25.14%521
Boone 1,90550.16%1,89349.84%120.32%3,798
Box Butte 1,96841.93%2,72558.07%-757-16.14%4,693
Boyd 90845.22%1,10054.78%-192-9.56%2,008
Brown 88541.03%1,27258.97%-387-17.94%2,157
Buffalo 5,43650.05%5,42549.95%110.10%10,861
Burt 2,07445.75%2,45954.25%-385-8.50%4,533
Butler 2,99364.57%1,64235.43%1,35129.14%4,635
Cass 3,97557.43%2,94742.57%1,02814.86%6,922
Cedar 3,10457.45%2,29942.55%80514.90%5,403
Chase 90745.62%1,08154.38%-174-8.76%1,988
Cherry 1,42838.89%2,24461.11%-816-22.22%3,672
Cheyenne 2,68946.22%3,12953.78%-440-7.56%5,818
Clay 2,00151.57%1,87948.43%1223.14%3,880
Colfax 2,20752.81%1,97247.19%2355.62%4,179
Cuming 2,26542.50%3,06457.50%-799-15.00%5,329
Custer 3,47547.02%3,91652.98%-441-5.96%7,391
Dakota 2,65458.20%1,90641.80%74816.40%4,560
Dawes 1,56938.39%2,51861.61%-949-23.22%4,087
Dawson 3,79045.30%4,57754.70%-787-9.40%8,367
Deuel 53335.42%97264.58%-439-29.16%1,505
Dixon 1,91250.89%1,84549.11%671.78%3,757
Dodge 6,73149.70%6,81250.30%-81-0.60%13,543
Douglas 77,48055.70%61,61344.30%15,86711.40%139,093
Dundy 71243.87%91156.13%-199-12.26%1,623
Fillmore 2,49756.33%1,93643.67%56112.66%4,433
Franklin 1,40953.17%1,24146.83%1686.34%2,650
Frontier 84143.55%1,09056.45%-249-12.90%1,931
Furnas 1,66945.35%2,01154.65%-342-9.30%3,680
Gage 6,41161.37%4,03538.63%2,37622.74%10,446
Garden 55933.57%1,10666.43%-547-32.86%1,665
Garfield 48338.83%76161.17%-278-22.34%1,244
Gosper 51248.35%54751.65%-35-3.30%1,059
Grant 19939.56%30460.44%-105-20.88%503
Greeley 1,30562.74%77537.26%53025.48%2,080
Hall 8,27355.20%6,71544.80%1,55810.40%14,988
Hamilton 1,88647.26%2,10552.74%-219-5.48%3,991
Harlan 1,19548.22%1,28351.78%-88-3.56%2,478
Hayes 36241.85%50358.15%-141-16.30%865
Hitchcock 94645.16%1,14954.84%-203-9.68%2,095
Holt 2,73946.17%3,19453.83%-455-7.66%5,933
Hooker 13729.03%33570.97%-198-41.94%472
Howard 2,02566.52%1,01933.48%1,00633.04%3,044
Jefferson 2,80455.21%2,27544.79%52910.42%5,079
Johnson 1,55454.22%1,31245.78%2428.44%2,866
Kearney 1,76756.65%1,35243.35%41513.30%3,119
Keith 1,78448.07%1,92751.93%-143-3.86%3,711
Keya Paha 32038.74%50661.26%-186-22.52%826
Kimball 1,24244.12%1,57355.88%-331-11.76%2,815
Knox 2,61748.74%2,75251.26%-135-2.52%5,369
Lancaster 34,50359.09%23,88740.91%10,61618.18%58,390
Lincoln 6,44657.26%4,81142.74%1,63514.52%11,257
Logan 29652.58%26747.42%295.16%563
Loup 17633.59%34866.41%-172-32.82%524
Madison 4,66143.09%6,15556.91%-1,494-13.82%10,816
McPherson 10432.20%21967.80%-115-35.60%323
Merrick 1,74149.19%1,79850.81%-57-1.62%3,539
Morrill 1,22842.68%1,64957.32%-421-14.64%2,877
Nance 1,32353.39%1,15546.61%1686.78%2,478
Nemaha 2,08451.84%1,93648.16%1483.68%4,020
Nuckolls 2,18158.52%1,54641.48%63517.04%3,727
Otoe 3,16946.64%3,62653.36%-457-6.72%6,795
Pawnee 1,11148.79%1,16651.21%-55-2.42%2,277
Perkins 87749.02%91250.98%-35-1.96%1,789
Phelps 2,15346.88%2,44053.12%-287-6.24%4,593
Pierce 1,63145.36%1,96554.64%-334-9.28%3,596
Platte 5,16052.31%4,70547.69%4554.62%9,865
Polk 1,73051.84%1,60748.16%1233.68%3,337
Red Willow 2,41646.86%2,74053.14%-324-6.28%5,156
Richardson 3,24553.24%2,85046.76%3956.48%6,095
Rock 37631.05%83568.95%-459-37.90%1,211
Saline 4,12569.86%1,78030.14%2,34539.72%5,905
Sarpy 5,58155.82%4,41844.18%1,16311.64%9,999
Saunders 4,17255.50%3,34544.50%82711.00%7,517
Scotts Bluff 6,36847.76%6,96552.24%-597-4.48%13,333
Seward 3,34760.11%2,22139.89%1,12620.22%5,568
Sheridan 1,15632.15%2,44067.85%-1,284-35.70%3,596
Sherman 1,63268.17%76231.83%87036.34%2,394
Sioux 37935.19%69864.81%-319-29.62%1,077
Stanton 1,01443.84%1,29956.16%-285-12.32%2,313
Thayer 2,29851.87%2,13248.13%1663.74%4,430
Thomas 21239.92%31960.08%-107-20.16%531
Thurston 1,70058.74%1,19441.26%50617.48%2,894
Valley 1,54548.25%1,65751.75%-112-3.50%3,202
Washington 2,70150.59%2,63849.41%631.18%5,339
Wayne 1,63040.86%2,35959.14%-729-18.28%3,989
Webster 1,65758.18%1,19141.82%46616.36%2,848
Wheeler 24843.89%31756.11%-69-12.22%565
York 2,83245.37%3,41054.63%-578-9.26%6,242
Totals307,30752.61%276,84747.39%30,4605.22%584,154

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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