1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia

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1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
Flag of West Virginia.svg
  1960 November 3, 1964 [1] 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 vote70
Popular vote538,087253,953
Percentage67.9%32.1%

West Virginia Presidential Election Results 1964.svg
County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

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.

Contents

West Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (DTexas), with 67.94 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (RArizona), with 32.06 percent of the popular vote. [3] [4]

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 , 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-1996red wall” comprising states that have consistently voted Republican since 2000.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) 538,087 67.94%
Republican Barry Goldwater 253,95332.06%
Total votes792,040 100.00%

Results by county

1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia by county [8]
CountyLyndon Baines Johnson
Democratic
Barry Morris Goldwater
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Barbour 4,75865.26%2,53334.74%2,22530.52%7,291
Berkeley 8,62861.26%5,45738.74%3,17122.51%14,085
Boone 8,60977.73%2,46722.27%6,14255.45%11,076
Braxton 4,78771.94%1,86728.06%2,92043.88%6,654
Brooke 9,83474.51%3,36425.49%6,47049.02%13,198
Cabell 28,43762.64%16,95737.36%11,48025.29%45,394
Calhoun 2,62667.32%1,27532.68%1,35134.63%3,901
Clay 3,18269.96%1,36630.04%1,81639.93%4,548
Doddridge 1,58750.09%1,58149.91%60.19%3,168
Fayette 19,99083.15%4,05116.85%15,93966.30%24,041
Gilmer 2,83271.73%1,11628.27%1,71643.47%3,948
Grant 1,49437.75%2,46462.25%-970-24.51%3,958
Greenbrier 10,11268.97%4,54931.03%5,56337.94%14,661
Hampshire 3,38169.65%1,47330.35%1,90839.31%4,854
Hancock 14,00173.65%5,00926.35%8,99247.30%19,010
Hardy 2,99669.61%1,30830.39%1,68839.22%4,304
Harrison 25,68372.00%9,98628.00%15,69744.01%35,669
Jackson 5,02253.53%4,35946.47%6637.07%9,381
Jefferson 4,89272.02%1,90127.98%2,99144.03%6,793
Kanawha 70,51164.75%38,38335.25%32,12829.50%108,894
Lewis 5,24863.79%2,97936.21%2,26927.58%8,227
Lincoln 5,85263.01%3,43636.99%2,41626.01%9,288
Logan 16,99981.82%3,77618.18%13,22363.65%20,775
Marion 22,04774.10%7,70725.90%14,34048.20%29,754
Marshall 11,75765.56%6,17534.44%5,58231.13%17,932
Mason 6,51159.31%4,46740.69%2,04418.62%10,978
McDowell 18,04683.05%3,68416.95%14,36266.09%21,730
Mercer 18,29867.26%8,90532.74%9,39334.53%27,203
Mineral 6,34462.53%3,80137.47%2,54325.07%10,145
Mingo 12,26679.55%3,15420.45%9,11259.09%15,420
Monongalia 17,35872.84%6,47327.16%10,88545.68%23,831
Monroe 3,36758.54%2,38541.46%98217.07%5,752
Morgan 1,82049.38%1,86650.62%-46-1.25%3,686
Nicholas 6,87872.35%2,62827.65%4,25044.71%9,506
Ohio 21,17863.82%12,00636.18%9,17227.64%33,184
Pendleton 2,49865.84%1,29634.16%1,20231.68%3,794
Pleasants 2,28763.07%1,33936.93%94826.14%3,626
Pocahontas 3,31765.91%1,71634.09%1,60131.81%5,033
Preston 6,26460.94%4,01539.06%2,24921.88%10,279
Putnam 6,91062.39%4,16537.61%2,74524.79%11,075
Raleigh 23,60677.25%6,95222.75%16,65454.50%30,558
Randolph 8,01272.86%2,98427.14%5,02845.73%10,996
Ritchie 2,24445.23%2,71754.77%-473-9.53%4,961
Roane 3,82052.54%3,45147.46%3695.07%7,271
Summers 5,03771.97%1,96228.03%3,07543.93%6,999
Taylor 4,44265.96%2,29234.04%2,15031.93%6,734
Tucker 2,66466.97%1,31433.03%1,35033.94%3,978
Tyler 2,27547.43%2,52252.57%-247-5.15%4,797
Upshur 3,77451.14%3,60648.86%1682.28%7,380
Wayne 11,57868.44%5,34031.56%6,23836.87%16,918
Webster 3,75580.05%93619.95%2,81960.09%4,691
Wetzel 6,23965.99%3,21534.01%3,02431.99%9,454
Wirt 1,28658.86%89941.14%38717.71%2,185
Wood 21,56059.06%14,94740.94%6,61318.11%36,507
Wyoming 9,18873.12%3,37726.88%5,81146.25%12,565
Totals538,08767.94%253,95332.06%284,13435.87%792,040

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