1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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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 17 0 Popular vote 1,867,671 963,843 Percentage 65.61% 33.86%

County Results Johnson   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% The 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1964. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won overwhelmingly by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his running mate Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Johnson and Humphrey defeated the Republican nominees, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and his running mate Congressman William E. Miller of New York. This is the only time the Democratic nominee won each of New Jersey’s 21 counties, and the second of two times that a Republican failed to win any county after 1912. This is the last time each county in New Jersey voted for the same presidential candidate until Republican President Richard Nixon’s landslide 1972 re-election. Johnson carried New Jersey in a landslide with 65.61% of the vote to Goldwater’s 33.86%, a margin of 31.75%. [1] Johnson also swept all twenty-one of New Jersey’s counties, the only time a Democratic presidential nominee has ever done so. [2] Johnson was the first Democrat to ever carry Ocean County since it was created in 1850. [3] He was also the first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry Monmouth and Morris Counties and the first since Wilson in 1916 to carry Sussex County, whilst the counties of Bergen, Cape May, Hunterdon and Somerset went Democratic for the first time since FDR‘s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon. [4] Johnson broke 60% of the vote in 15 counties, and 70% in 4: Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Cumberland, besides falling just short of the mark in Essex County, where Johnson received 69.9%. Hudson would be the most Democratic county, giving Johnson 73.5% of the vote. Goldwater’s strongest county was rural Sussex County, where he received 45.2% of the vote to Johnson’s 54.8%. New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean. But this normal pattern was broken in 1964, as Goldwater’s staunch conservatism led many moderate Northeastern Republicans to view Goldwater as an extremist and defect to the Democrats that year. As Johnson won a massive landslide nationally, normally GOP-leaning New Jersey’s result would even be almost 10% more Democratic than the national average. This was also the last time New Jersey would go to a Democratic candidate for president until 1992, after which the state has always gone Democratic. Primary elections Republican primary 1964 New Jersey Republican presidential primary ←  1960 April 21, 1964 (1964-04-21) 1968  →   Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (write-in) Barry Goldwater (write-in) Richard Nixon (write-in) Home state Massachusetts Arizona California Popular vote 7,896 5,309 4,179 Percentage 41.70% 28.04% 22.07% County Results   Lodge   Goldwater   No Votes "1964 Presidential General Election Results – New Jersey". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 25, 2013. Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, pp. 439-440 ISBN   0313257957 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 90 ISBN   0786422173 Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. "Results of the Primary Election Held April 21, 1964" (PDF). Retrieved August 17, 2022. Official Congressional Directory – 88th Congress (PDF). 1964. p. 489. Robert F. Kennedy; Attorney General of the United States; legal residence, Massachusetts. "Results of the Primary Election Held April 21, 1964" (PDF). Retrieved August 17, 2022. Our Campaigns; NJ US President 1964 Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 "New Jersey Voting Results and Participants". CountingTheVotes.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022. "Maryland Voting Results and Participants". CountingTheVotes.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022. v t e State and district results of the 1964 United States presidential election Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.