1964 Presidential Election
November 3, 1964 · Cold War Consensus · 538 electoral votes, 270 to win
Johnson's 61% remains the highest popular share ever recorded. Goldwater's ideological insurgency carried only his home state and the Deep South, where the Civil Rights Act had transformed the map, a defeat that incubated the conservative movement.
Elected
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Electoral vote
486 of 538
Popular vote
61.0%
43,127,041 votes
Turnout
62.8%
VAP 63.4%
The result
| EV share | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 486 | 43,127,041 | 61.00% | 45 | |
| Barry Goldwater | Republican | William E. Miller | 52 | 27,175,754 | 38.50% | 6 | |
| Democratic | — | — | 210,732 | 0.30% | — | ||
| Eric Hass | Socialist Labor | Henning A. Blomen | — | 45,189 | 0.06% | — | |
| Clifton DeBerry | Socialist Workers | Ed Shaw | — | 32,706 | 0.05% | — | |
| E. Harold Munn | Prohibition | Mark R. Shaw | — | 23,267 | 0.03% | — |
70,614,689 votes recorded for the candidates listed.
Results by state
| Alabama | Barry Goldwater | 69.5% | 10 | — |
| Alaska | Lyndon B. Johnson | 65.9% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 34.1% |
| Arizona | Barry Goldwater | 50.5% | 5 | Lyndon B. Johnson · 49.5% |
| Arkansas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 56.1% | 6 | Barry Goldwater · 43.4% |
| California | Lyndon B. Johnson | 59.1% | 40 | Barry Goldwater · 40.8% |
| Colorado | Lyndon B. Johnson | 61.3% | 6 | Barry Goldwater · 38.2% |
| Connecticut | Lyndon B. Johnson | 67.8% | 8 | Barry Goldwater · 32.1% |
| Delaware | Lyndon B. Johnson | 61.0% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 38.8% |
| District of Columbia | Lyndon B. Johnson | 85.5% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 14.5% |
| Florida | Lyndon B. Johnson | 51.2% | 14 | Barry Goldwater · 48.9% |
| Georgia | Barry Goldwater | 54.1% | 12 | Lyndon B. Johnson · 45.9% |
| Hawaii | Lyndon B. Johnson | 78.8% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 21.2% |
| Idaho | Lyndon B. Johnson | 50.9% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 49.1% |
| Illinois | Lyndon B. Johnson | 59.5% | 26 | Barry Goldwater · 40.5% |
| Indiana | Lyndon B. Johnson | 56.0% | 13 | Barry Goldwater · 43.6% |
| Iowa | Lyndon B. Johnson | 61.9% | 9 | Barry Goldwater · 37.9% |
| Kansas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 54.1% | 7 | Barry Goldwater · 45.1% |
| Kentucky | Lyndon B. Johnson | 64.0% | 9 | Barry Goldwater · 35.7% |
| Louisiana | Barry Goldwater | 56.8% | 10 | Lyndon B. Johnson · 43.2% |
| Maine | Lyndon B. Johnson | 68.8% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 31.2% |
| Maryland | Lyndon B. Johnson | 65.5% | 10 | Barry Goldwater · 34.5% |
| Massachusetts | Lyndon B. Johnson | 76.2% | 14 | Barry Goldwater · 23.4% |
| Michigan | Lyndon B. Johnson | 66.7% | 21 | Barry Goldwater · 33.1% |
| Minnesota | Lyndon B. Johnson | 63.8% | 10 | Barry Goldwater · 36.0% |
| Mississippi | Barry Goldwater | 87.1% | 7 | Lyndon B. Johnson · 12.9% |
| Missouri | Lyndon B. Johnson | 64.1% | 12 | Barry Goldwater · 36.0% |
| Montana | Lyndon B. Johnson | 59.0% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 40.6% |
| Nebraska | Lyndon B. Johnson | 52.6% | 5 | Barry Goldwater · 47.4% |
| Nevada | Lyndon B. Johnson | 58.6% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 41.4% |
| New Hampshire | Lyndon B. Johnson | 63.6% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 36.4% |
| New Jersey | Lyndon B. Johnson | 65.6% | 17 | Barry Goldwater · 36.4% |
| New Mexico | Lyndon B. Johnson | 59.0% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 40.4% |
| New York | Lyndon B. Johnson | 68.6% | 43 | Barry Goldwater · 31.3% |
| North Carolina | Lyndon B. Johnson | 56.2% | 13 | Barry Goldwater · 43.9% |
| North Dakota | Lyndon B. Johnson | 58.0% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 41.9% |
| Ohio | Lyndon B. Johnson | 62.9% | 26 | Barry Goldwater · 37.1% |
| Oklahoma | Lyndon B. Johnson | 55.8% | 8 | Barry Goldwater · 44.3% |
| Oregon | Lyndon B. Johnson | 63.7% | 6 | Barry Goldwater · 36.0% |
| Pennsylvania | Lyndon B. Johnson | 64.9% | 29 | Barry Goldwater · 34.7% |
| Rhode Island | Lyndon B. Johnson | 80.9% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 19.1% |
| South Carolina | Barry Goldwater | 58.9% | 8 | Lyndon B. Johnson · 41.1% |
| South Dakota | Lyndon B. Johnson | 55.6% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 44.4% |
| Tennessee | Lyndon B. Johnson | 55.5% | 11 | Barry Goldwater · 44.5% |
| Texas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 63.3% | 25 | Barry Goldwater · 36.5% |
| Utah | Lyndon B. Johnson | 54.7% | 4 | Barry Goldwater · 45.3% |
| Vermont | Lyndon B. Johnson | 66.3% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 33.7% |
| Virginia | Lyndon B. Johnson | 53.5% | 12 | Barry Goldwater · 46.2% |
| Washington | Lyndon B. Johnson | 62.0% | 9 | Barry Goldwater · 37.4% |
| West Virginia | Lyndon B. Johnson | 67.9% | 7 | Barry Goldwater · 32.1% |
| Wisconsin | Lyndon B. Johnson | 62.1% | 12 | Barry Goldwater · 37.7% |
| Wyoming | Lyndon B. Johnson | 56.6% | 3 | Barry Goldwater · 43.4% |
The Congress it seated
89th Congress
1965–1967
Unified government
Senate
68–32
Democratic vs Republican
House
295–140
Democratic vs Republican