1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia

1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
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President before election; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Democratic	Elected President; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Democratic

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

In a state where Goldwater was widely perceived as an extremist and excessively allied with the Deep South,^[5] and where Johnson's campaign's presentation of his Republican opponent as a warmonger who would provoke nuclear war^[6] had particular resonance in an isolationist Appalachian population,^[5] the incumbent President's 67.94 percent vote share and 538,087-vote total are the highest percentage and vote count ever received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history. West Virginia would be easily Johnson's strongest antebellum slave state and his sixth-best overall behind Rhode Island, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine and New York, voting overall 13.29 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large even in a huge landslide.

As of the 2020 presidential election ^[update], this is the only election since the Civil War in which a Democratic presidential candidate won Preston County and Upshur County.^[7] It is also the last occasion when Berkeley County, Wood County, and Doddridge County backed a Democrat for President.^[7]

This also remains the last time that West Virginia and neighboring Virginia would simultaneously vote Democratic at the presidential level. West Virginia was also Johnson's best state in the post-1996 “red wall” comprising states that have consistently voted Republican since 2000.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	538,087	67.94%
	Republican	Barry Goldwater	253,953	32.06%
Total votes			792,040	100.00%

Results by county

County^[8]	Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic		Barry Goldwater Republican		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[8]	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Barbour	4,758	65.26%	2,533	34.74%	2,225	30.52%	7,291
Berkeley	8,628	61.26%	5,457	38.74%	3,171	22.52%	14,085
Boone	8,609	77.73%	2,467	22.27%	6,142	55.46%	11,076
Braxton	4,787	71.94%	1,867	28.06%	2,920	43.88%	6,654
Brooke	9,834	74.51%	3,364	25.49%	6,470	49.02%	13,198
Cabell	28,437	62.64%	16,957	37.36%	11,480	25.28%	45,394
Calhoun	2,626	67.32%	1,275	32.68%	1,351	34.64%	3,901
Clay	3,182	69.96%	1,366	30.04%	1,816	39.92%	4,548
Doddridge	1,587	50.09%	1,581	49.91%	6	0.18%	3,168
Fayette	19,990	83.15%	4,051	16.85%	15,939	66.30%	24,041
Gilmer	2,832	71.73%	1,116	28.27%	1,716	43.46%	3,948
Grant	1,494	37.75%	2,464	62.25%	−970	−24.50%	3,958
Greenbrier	10,112	68.97%	4,549	31.03%	5,563	37.94%	14,661
Hampshire	3,381	69.65%	1,473	30.35%	1,908	39.30%	4,854
Hancock	14,001	73.65%	5,009	26.35%	8,992	47.30%	19,010
Hardy	2,996	69.61%	1,308	30.39%	1,688	39.22%	4,304
Harrison	25,683	72.00%	9,986	28.00%	15,697	44.00%	35,669
Jackson	5,022	53.53%	4,359	46.47%	663	7.06%	9,381
Jefferson	4,892	72.02%	1,901	27.98%	2,991	44.04%	6,793
Kanawha	70,511	64.75%	38,383	35.25%	32,128	29.50%	108,894
Lewis	5,248	63.79%	2,979	36.21%	2,269	27.58%	8,227
Lincoln	5,852	63.01%	3,436	36.99%	2,416	26.02%	9,288
Logan	16,999	81.82%	3,776	18.18%	13,223	63.64%	20,775
Marion	22,047	74.10%	7,707	25.90%	14,340	48.20%	29,754
Marshall	11,757	65.56%	6,175	34.44%	5,582	31.12%	17,932
Mason	6,511	59.31%	4,467	40.69%	2,044	18.62%	10,978
McDowell	18,046	83.05%	3,684	16.95%	14,362	66.10%	21,730
Mercer	18,298	67.26%	8,905	32.74%	9,393	34.52%	27,203
Mineral	6,344	62.53%	3,801	37.47%	2,543	25.06%	10,145
Mingo	12,266	79.55%	3,154	20.45%	9,112	59.10%	15,420
Monongalia	17,358	72.84%	6,473	27.16%	10,885	45.68%	23,831
Monroe	3,367	58.54%	2,385	41.46%	982	17.08%	5,752
Morgan	1,820	49.38%	1,866	50.62%	−46	−1.24%	3,686
Nicholas	6,878	72.35%	2,628	27.65%	4,250	44.70%	9,506
Ohio	21,178	63.82%	12,006	36.18%	9,172	27.64%	33,184
Pendleton	2,498	65.84%	1,296	34.16%	1,202	31.68%	3,794
Pleasants	2,287	63.07%	1,339	36.93%	948	26.14%	3,626
Pocahontas	3,317	65.91%	1,716	34.09%	1,601	31.82%	5,033
Preston	6,264	60.94%	4,015	39.06%	2,249	21.88%	10,279
Putnam	6,910	62.39%	4,165	37.61%	2,745	24.78%	11,075
Raleigh	23,606	77.25%	6,952	22.75%	16,654	54.50%	30,558
Randolph	8,012	72.86%	2,984	27.14%	5,028	45.72%	10,996
Ritchie	2,244	45.23%	2,717	54.77%	−473	−9.54%	4,961
Roane	3,820	52.54%	3,451	47.46%	369	5.08%	7,271
Summers	5,037	71.97%	1,962	28.03%	3,075	43.94%	6,999
Taylor	4,442	65.96%	2,292	34.04%	2,150	31.92%	6,734
Tucker	2,664	66.97%	1,314	33.03%	1,350	33.94%	3,978
Tyler	2,275	47.43%	2,522	52.57%	−247	−5.14%	4,797
Upshur	3,774	51.14%	3,606	48.86%	168	2.28%	7,380
Wayne	11,578	68.44%	5,340	31.56%	6,238	36.88%	16,918
Webster	3,755	80.05%	936	19.95%	2,819	60.10%	4,691
Wetzel	6,239	65.99%	3,215	34.01%	3,024	31.98%	9,454
Wirt	1,286	58.86%	899	41.14%	387	17.72%	2,185
Wood	21,560	59.06%	14,947	40.94%	6,613	18.12%	36,507
Wyoming	9,188	73.12%	3,377	26.88%	5,811	46.24%	12,565
Totals	538,087	67.94%	253,953	32.06%	284,134	35.88%

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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↑ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)" . Retrieved May 30, 2017.
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1 2 Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6.
↑ Edwards, Lee; Schlafly, Phyllis. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. pp. 286–290. ISBN 162157458X.
1 2 Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 334–336. ISBN 0786422173.
↑ "WV US President — November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.

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[1] "United States Presidential election of 1964 — Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved May 30, 2017.

[2] "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)" . Retrieved May 30, 2017.

[3] "1964 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia" . Retrieved May 30, 2017.

[4] "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964" . Retrieved May 30, 2017.

[Emerging-5] 1 2 Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6.

[6] Edwards, Lee; Schlafly, Phyllis. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. pp. 286–290. ISBN 162157458X.

[Geography-7] 1 2 Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 334–336. ISBN 0786422173.

[8] "WV US President — November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.

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