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The 1964 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 10, 1964, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1964 United States presidential election. Former Massachusetts senator, Ambassador to the United Nations, and running mate to Richard Nixon in the 1960 election Henry Cabot Lodge Jr won as a write-in candidate with 36% of the vote. [1] Behind him in second place was eventual 1964 GOP nominee Barry Goldwater, who finished with 22% of the vote. In third place was Nelson Rockefeller of New York and in fourth was Richard Nixon, who was also a write-in and did not contend for the nomination. [2] [3]
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The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in a landslide victory. Johnson was the fourth and most recent vice president to succeed the presidency following the death of his predecessor and win a full term in his own right. Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote for the Democratic Party in history, 61.1%, and the highest for any candidate since the advent of widespread popular elections in 1824.
The New Hampshire presidential primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest, the first being the Iowa caucuses, held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held in November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary, its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives, along with the first caucus in Iowa.
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