1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Flag of New Mexico.svg
  1960 November 3, 1964 1968  
  37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Goldwater and Miller (cropped).jpg
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote40
Popular vote194,017131,838
Percentage59.22%40.24%

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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 New Mexico took place on November 3, 1964. All fifty states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

New Mexico was won by President Lyndon B. Johnson in a 19-point landslide. Johnson had won after serving as President for one year following the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater lost most of the United States in this election, except for his home state and portions of the American South. [1] Goldwater won only three counties: the Plains counties of Union and Harding, which as of the 2020 presidential election have never voted Democratic since 1948, [2] and Lincoln County, which has never voted Democratic since 1936. Even in these, Goldwater won only narrowly: his highest proportion of the vote was only 52.55 percent in Lincoln County. Four other normally reliably Republican counties – San Juan, Curry, Chaves and Catron – were narrowly won by Johnson and have never voted for a Democrat since. [2] This is also the last time the southeastern counties of Roosevelt, Otero and Lea have voted Democratic and Los Alamos County did not vote Democratic again until 2008. [2]

At the other extreme, Grant and Sandoval Counties both gave Johnson over seventy percent of the vote, and the populous counties of Santa Fe and Taos also gave him over two-thirds. [1]

Results

1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic 194,017 59.22% +9.07
Republican 131,83840.24%−9.17
Socialist Labor 1,2170.37%+0.19
Prohibition
5430.17%−0.08
Total votes327,615 100.00%
Democratic win

Results by county

County Lyndon Baines Johnson
Democratic
Barry Morris Goldwater
Republican
Eric Hass [3]
Socialist Labor
Earle Harold Munn [3]
Prohibition
Margin
 %# %# %#%# %#
Sandoval 75.38%3,33224.37%1,0770.23%100.02%151.02%2,255
Grant 71.82%5,25327.92%2,0420.16%120.10%743.90%3,211
Rio Arriba 69.56%6,78729.78%2,9060.33%320.33%3239.78%3,881
McKinley 69.13%6,91329.65%2,9650.64%640.58%5839.48%3,948
Santa Fe 68.12%12,61631.50%5,8340.19%350.18%3436.62%6,782
San Miguel 67.81%5,76731.91%2,7140.24%200.05%435.90%3,053
Taos 67.39%4,20432.16%2,0060.16%100.29%1835.24%2,198
Colfax 66.95%3,36732.53%1,63680.36%34.42%1,731
Los Alamos 66.23%3,76733.32%1,8950.11%60.35%2032.91%1,872
Valencia 65.98%7,75733.60%3,9500.26%300.17%32.38%3,807
Otero 63.13%6,03536.59%3,4980.14%130.15%1426.54%2,537
Eddy 62.20%11,21637.42%6,7470.25%450.13%2424.78%4,469
Hidalgo 60.89%99538.43%6280.49%80.18%322.46%367
Guadalupe 60.78%1,64939.00%1,0580.07%20.15%421.78%591
Mora 59.72%1,50940.13%1,0140.08%0.08%219.59%495
Doña Ana 59.43%10,74840.25%7,2800.23%421519.18%3,468
Luna 57.60%2,28641.95%1,6650.30%120.15%615.65%621
Socorro 57.33%2,39742.43%1,7740.12%50.12%514.90%623
Bernalillo 55.98%55,03643.31%42,5830.63%6240.08%7412.67%12,453
Lea 55.57%8,86244.10%7,0330.23%360.11%1711.47%1,829
Torrance 54.88%1,44644.90%1,1830.11%339.98%263
De Baca 54.35%67445.08%5590.24%0.32%49.27%115
Sierra 51.86%1,63347.67%1,5010.38%120.10%34.19%132
Quay 51.67%2,33347.86%2,1610.29%130.18%83.81%172
Catron 51.66%62448.34%5840.00%00.00%03.31%40
Roosevelt 51.03%2,87548.49%2,7320.35%200.12%72.54%143
Chaves 50.55%8,65049.20%8,4190.17%290.08%141.35%231
Curry 50.38%5,22849.34%5,1200.13%140.15%161.04%108
San Juan 49.68%6,90149.01%6,8080.62%860.70%970.67%93
Union 48.27%1,15951.31%1,2320.29%70.12%3-3.04%-73
Harding 47.62%43152.27%4730.11%10.00%0-4.64%-42
Lincoln 46.70%1,56552.55%1,7610.39%130.36%12-5.85%-196

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References

  1. 1 2 "1964 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. 1 2 Our Campaigns; NM US President 1964