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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

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.

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

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

[3]

County Johnson Votes Goldwater Votes Others Votes
San Francisco 71.24% 230,758 28.71% 92,994 0.05% 156
Plumas 70.35% 4,019 29.51% 1,686 0.14% 8
Solano 69.53% 34,930 30.38% 15,263 0.09% 47
Yolo 69.52% 18,266 30.36% 7,976 0.12% 32
Kings 69.39% 13,073 30.54% 5,753 0.07% 14
Merced 68.74% 19,431 31.18% 8,814 0.08% 24
Madera 67.75% 9,391 32.18% 4,461 0.07% 10
Shasta 67.52% 19,142 32.37% 9,178 0.11% 30
Amador 66.89% 3,410 32.99% 1,682 0.12% 6
Sierra 66.72% 828 33.28% 413 0.00% 0
Alameda 66.42% 283,833 33.46% 142,998 0.12% 509
Humboldt 66.27% 25,515 33.53% 12,909 0.19% 75
Stanislaus 66.14% 43,078 33.74% 21,973 0.12% 77
Placer 65.96% 18,256 33.92% 9,389 0.11% 31
Sacramento 65.68% 149,668 34.17% 77,871 0.15% 332
Lassen 65.67% 4,072 34.25% 2,124 0.08% 5
Fresno 65.57% 89,375 34.33% 46,792 0.10% 141
Mendocino 65.12% 11,869 34.68% 6,322 0.20% 36
San Mateo 64.32% 140,978 35.55% 77,916 0.14% 297
Del Norte 63.77% 3,652 36.23% 2,075 0.00% 0
Siskiyou 63.66% 9,126 36.18% 5,186 0.16% 23
Contra Costa 63.44% 113,071 36.47% 65,011 0.09% 163
Trinity 63.25% 2,175 36.41% 1,252 0.35% 12
Tuolumne 63.16% 4,939 36.59% 2,861 0.26% 20
Santa Clara 63.10% 202,249 36.63% 117,420 0.27% 858
Napa 62.74% 19,580 37.06% 11,567 0.20% 63
Monterey 61.83% 40,093 37.90% 24,579 0.27% 172
San Joaquin 61.78% 59,210 38.13% 36,546 0.09% 83
Marin 61.65% 46,462 38.06% 28,682 0.29% 220
Sonoma 61.49% 44,354 38.37% 27,677 0.15% 105
San Benito 60.59% 3,779 39.19% 2,444 0.22% 14
Colusa 60.57% 2,790 39.32% 1,811 0.11% 5
Tehama 60.42% 6,928 39.50% 4,529 0.09% 10
El Dorado 60.30% 8,810 39.53% 5,775 0.17% 25
Tulare 60.08% 33,974 39.83% 22,527 0.09% 51
San Luis Obispo 59.84% 22,252 40.08% 14,906 0.08% 28
Ventura 58.84% 57,805 40.99% 40,264 0.17% 169
Modoc 58.73% 1,972 41.27% 1,386 0.00% 0
Kern 58.71% 64,174 41.18% 45,014 0.11% 120
Santa Cruz 58.53% 26,714 41.27% 18,836 0.21% 94
Calaveras 58.27% 3,145 41.58% 2,244 0.15% 8
Yuba 57.64% 6,766 42.29% 4,964 0.08% 9
Los Angeles 57.43% 1,568,300 42.52% 1,161,067 0.06% 1,551
Mariposa 57.41% 1,704 42.59% 1,264 0.00% 0
San Bernardino 57.11% 123,012 42.78% 92,145 0.11% 243
Riverside 56.79% 80,528 43.14% 61,165 0.07% 95
Nevada 56.52% 6,397 43.29% 4,899 0.19% 22
Lake 56.37% 4,680 43.56% 3,616 0.07% 6
Santa Barbara 55.94% 48,381 43.96% 38,020 0.10% 85
Glenn 54.01% 3,937 45.97% 3,351 0.03% 2
Inyo 53.44% 3,161 46.51% 2,751 0.05% 3
Imperial 51.85% 11,143 48.06% 10,330 0.09% 19
Butte 51.54% 20,831 48.43% 19,574 0.03% 14
San Diego 49.69% 211,808 50.31% 214,445 0.01% 33
Sutter 48.33% 6,787 51.56% 7,241 0.11% 16
Orange 44.01% 176,539 55.89% 224,196 0.11% 430
Mono 43.93% 666 56.07% 850 0.00% 0
Alpine 42.33% 91 57.67% 124 0.00% 0

References

  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.