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1964 United States presidential election in California

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The 1964 United States presidential election in California took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 40 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1964 United States presidential election in California
← 1960 November 3, 1964 (1964-11-03) 1968 →
Turnout88.38% (of registered voters) Increase 0.06 pp
66.00% (of eligible voters) Decrease 2.77 pp[1]
 
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote 40 0
Popular vote 4,171,877 2,879,108
Percentage 59.11% 40.79%
County Results
President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

President-elect

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

California voted for the incumbent Democratic President, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, in a landslide over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

As Johnson won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 61.05% of the vote nationwide, and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins, California weighed in at about 4% more Republican than the national average in the 1964 election. Johnson dominated in liberal Northern California, breaking 60% in many counties and even breaking 70% in Plumas County and the city of San Francisco. However, the Western conservative Goldwater, from neighboring Arizona, appealed to residents of conservative Southern California, where Johnson failed to break his nationwide vote average in a single county. Goldwater indeed won six congressional districts in suburban areas of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties, and carried two heavily populated Southern California counties outright: Orange County and San Diego County, thus holding Johnson below the 60% mark statewide.

Although California has become a strongly Democratic state in recent elections, this was the only presidential election from 1952 to 1988 where the state was carried by a Democrat. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is also the last time that a Democrat has won the counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Kern, Modoc and Tulare.[2] This is also the most recent presidential election where Los Angeles County voted more Republican than the state as a whole, as well as the last in which California did not register the most votes cast by state.

California was Barry Goldwater's best state in the modern day "blue wall", which were states won by the Democrats in every presidential election from 1992 to 2012. Johnson was the only Democrat prior to 1992 to carry all of the states of that future "blue wall". Democrats would not win Nevada County until 2008; and Inyo County until 2020.

Results

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Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote 		Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Texas 4,171,877 59.11% 40 Hubert Humphrey Minnesota 40
Barry Goldwater Republican Arizona 2,879,108 40.79% 0 William E. Miller New York 0
Write-in candidates — — 5,410 0.08% 0 — — 0
Eric Hass Socialist Labor New York 489 0.01% 0 Henning A. Blomen Massachusetts 0
Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers New York 378 0.01% 0 Ed Shaw 0
E. Harold Munn Prohibition Party Michigan 305 0.00% 0 Mark R. Shaw Massachusetts 0
Kirby J. Hensley Universal Party California 19 0.00% 0 Roscoe MacKenna 0
Total 7,057,586 100% 40 40
Needed to win 270 270

Results by county

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County[3] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic 		Barry Goldwater
Republican 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Alameda 283,833 66.42% 142,998 33.46% 509 0.12% 140,835 32.96% 427,340
Alpine 91 42.33% 124 57.67% 0 0.00% -33 -15.34% 215
Amador 3,410 66.89% 1,682 32.99% 6 0.12% 1,728 33.90% 5,098
Butte 20,831 51.54% 19,574 48.43% 14 0.03% 1,257 3.11% 40,419
Calaveras 3,145 58.27% 2,244 41.58% 8 0.15% 901 16.69% 5,397
Colusa 2,790 60.57% 1,811 39.32% 5 0.11% 979 21.25% 4,606
Contra Costa 113,071 63.44% 65,011 36.47% 163 0.09% 48,060 26.97% 178,245
Del Norte 3,652 63.77% 2,075 36.23% 0 0.00% 1,577 27.54% 5,727
El Dorado 8,810 60.30% 5,775 39.53% 25 0.17% 3,035 20.77% 14,610
Fresno 89,375 65.57% 46,792 34.33% 141 0.10% 42,583 31.24% 136,308
Glenn 3,937 54.01% 3,351 45.97% 2 0.02% 586 8.04% 7,290
Humboldt 25,515 66.27% 12,909 33.53% 75 0.20% 12,606 32.74% 38,499
Imperial 11,143 51.85% 10,330 48.06% 19 0.09% 813 3.79% 21,492
Inyo 3,161 53.44% 2,751 46.51% 3 0.05% 410 6.93% 5,915
Kern 64,174 58.71% 45,014 41.18% 120 0.11% 19,160 17.53% 109,308
Kings 13,073 69.39% 5,753 30.54% 14 0.07% 7,320 38.85% 18,840
Lake 4,680 56.37% 3,616 43.56% 6 0.07% 1,064 12.81% 8,302
Lassen 4,072 65.67% 2,124 34.25% 5 0.08% 1,948 31.42% 6,201
Los Angeles 1,568,300 57.43% 1,161,067 42.52% 1,551 0.05% 407,233 14.91% 2,730,918
Madera 9,391 67.75% 4,461 32.18% 10 0.07% 4,930 35.57% 13,862
Marin 46,462 61.65% 28,682 38.06% 220 0.29% 17,780 23.59% 75,364
Mariposa 1,704 57.41% 1,264 42.59% 0 0.00% 440 14.82% 2,968
Mendocino 11,869 65.12% 6,322 34.68% 36 0.20% 5,547 30.44% 18,227
Merced 19,431 68.74% 8,814 31.18% 24 0.08% 10,617 37.56% 28,269
Modoc 1,972 58.73% 1,386 41.27% 0 0.00% 586 17.46% 3,358
Mono 666 43.93% 850 56.07% 0 0.00% -184 -12.14% 1,516
Monterey 40,093 61.83% 24,579 37.90% 172 0.27% 15,514 23.93% 64,844
Napa 19,580 62.74% 11,567 37.06% 63 0.20% 8,013 25.68% 31,210
Nevada 6,397 56.52% 4,899 43.29% 22 0.19% 1,498 13.23% 11,318
Orange 176,539 44.01% 224,196 55.89% 430 0.10% -47,657 -11.88% 401,165
Placer 18,256 65.96% 9,389 33.92% 31 0.12% 8,867 32.04% 27,676
Plumas 4,019 70.35% 1,686 29.51% 8 0.14% 2,333 40.84% 5,713
Riverside 80,528 56.79% 61,165 43.14% 95 0.07% 19,363 13.65% 141,788
Sacramento 149,668 65.68% 77,871 34.17% 332 0.15% 71,797 31.51% 227,871
San Benito 3,779 60.59% 2,444 39.19% 14 0.22% 1,335 21.40% 6,237
San Bernardino 123,012 57.11% 92,145 42.78% 243 0.11% 30,867 14.33% 215,400
San Diego 211,808 49.69% 214,445 50.31% 33 0.00% -2,637 -0.62% 426,286
San Francisco 230,758 71.24% 92,994 28.71% 156 0.05% 137,764 42.53% 323,908
San Joaquin 59,210 61.78% 36,546 38.13% 83 0.09% 22,664 23.65% 95,839
San Luis Obispo 22,252 59.84% 14,906 40.08% 28 0.08% 7,346 19.76% 37,186
San Mateo 140,978 64.32% 77,916 35.55% 297 0.13% 63,062 28.77% 219,191
Santa Barbara 48,381 55.94% 38,020 43.96% 85 0.10% 10,361 11.98% 86,486
Santa Clara 202,249 63.10% 117,420 36.63% 858 0.27% 84,829 26.47% 320,527
Santa Cruz 26,714 58.53% 18,836 41.27% 94 0.20% 7,878 17.26% 45,644
Shasta 19,142 67.52% 9,178 32.37% 30 0.11% 9,964 35.15% 28,350
Sierra 828 66.72% 413 33.28% 0 0.00% 415 33.44% 1,241
Siskiyou 9,126 63.66% 5,186 36.18% 23 0.16% 3,940 27.48% 14,335
Solano 34,930 69.53% 15,263 30.38% 47 0.09% 19,667 39.15% 50,240
Sonoma 44,354 61.49% 27,677 38.37% 105 0.14% 16,677 23.12% 72,136
Stanislaus 43,078 66.14% 21,973 33.74% 77 0.12% 21,105 32.40% 65,128
Sutter 6,787 48.33% 7,241 51.56% 16 0.11% -454 -3.23% 14,044
Tehama 6,928 60.42% 4,529 39.50% 10 0.08% 2,399 20.92% 11,467
Trinity 2,175 63.25% 1,252 36.41% 12 0.34% 923 26.84% 3,439
Tulare 33,974 60.08% 22,527 39.83% 51 0.09% 11,447 20.25% 56,552
Tuolumne 4,939 63.16% 2,861 36.59% 20 0.25% 2,078 26.57% 7,820
Ventura 57,805 58.84% 40,264 40.99% 169 0.17% 17,541 17.85% 98,238
Yolo 18,266 69.52% 7,976 30.36% 32 0.12% 10,290 39.16% 26,274
Yuba 6,766 57.64% 4,964 42.29% 9 0.07% 1,802 15.35% 11,739
Total 4,171,877 59.11% 2,879,108 40.79% 6,601 0.10% 1,292,769 18.32% 7,057,586

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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  1. ^ "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
  2. ^ "California Election Results". The New York Times. November 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results - California". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
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