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| Elections in West Virginia |
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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.
West Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson ( D– Texas), with 67.94 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater ( R– Arizona), 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 [update], 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- 1996 “ red wall” comprising states that have consistently voted Republican since 2000.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson ( inc.) | 538,087 | 67.94% | |
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 253,953 | 32.06% | |
| Total votes | 792,040 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county
| County | Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic |
Barry Morris Goldwater Republican |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Barbour | 4,758 | 65.26% | 2,533 | 34.74% | 2,225 | 30.52% | 7,291 |
| Berkeley | 8,628 | 61.26% | 5,457 | 38.74% | 3,171 | 22.51% | 14,085 |
| Boone | 8,609 | 77.73% | 2,467 | 22.27% | 6,142 | 55.45% | 11,076 |
| Braxton | 4,787 | 71.94% | 1,867 | 28.06% | 2,920 | 43.88% | 6,654 |
| Brooke | 9,834 | 74.51% | 3,364 | 25.49% | 6,470 | 49.02% | 13,198 |
| Cabell | 28,437 | 62.64% | 16,957 | 37.36% | 11,480 | 25.29% | 45,394 |
| Calhoun | 2,626 | 67.32% | 1,275 | 32.68% | 1,351 | 34.63% | 3,901 |
| Clay | 3,182 | 69.96% | 1,366 | 30.04% | 1,816 | 39.93% | 4,548 |
| Doddridge | 1,587 | 50.09% | 1,581 | 49.91% | 6 | 0.19% | 3,168 |
| Fayette | 19,990 | 83.15% | 4,051 | 16.85% | 15,939 | 66.30% | 24,041 |
| Gilmer | 2,832 | 71.73% | 1,116 | 28.27% | 1,716 | 43.47% | 3,948 |
| Grant | 1,494 | 37.75% | 2,464 | 62.25% | -970 | -24.51% | 3,958 |
| Greenbrier | 10,112 | 68.97% | 4,549 | 31.03% | 5,563 | 37.94% | 14,661 |
| Hampshire | 3,381 | 69.65% | 1,473 | 30.35% | 1,908 | 39.31% | 4,854 |
| Hancock | 14,001 | 73.65% | 5,009 | 26.35% | 8,992 | 47.30% | 19,010 |
| Hardy | 2,996 | 69.61% | 1,308 | 30.39% | 1,688 | 39.22% | 4,304 |
| Harrison | 25,683 | 72.00% | 9,986 | 28.00% | 15,697 | 44.01% | 35,669 |
| Jackson | 5,022 | 53.53% | 4,359 | 46.47% | 663 | 7.07% | 9,381 |
| Jefferson | 4,892 | 72.02% | 1,901 | 27.98% | 2,991 | 44.03% | 6,793 |
| Kanawha | 70,511 | 64.75% | 38,383 | 35.25% | 32,128 | 29.50% | 108,894 |
| Lewis | 5,248 | 63.79% | 2,979 | 36.21% | 2,269 | 27.58% | 8,227 |
| Lincoln | 5,852 | 63.01% | 3,436 | 36.99% | 2,416 | 26.01% | 9,288 |
| Logan | 16,999 | 81.82% | 3,776 | 18.18% | 13,223 | 63.65% | 20,775 |
| Marion | 22,047 | 74.10% | 7,707 | 25.90% | 14,340 | 48.20% | 29,754 |
| Marshall | 11,757 | 65.56% | 6,175 | 34.44% | 5,582 | 31.13% | 17,932 |
| Mason | 6,511 | 59.31% | 4,467 | 40.69% | 2,044 | 18.62% | 10,978 |
| McDowell | 18,046 | 83.05% | 3,684 | 16.95% | 14,362 | 66.09% | 21,730 |
| Mercer | 18,298 | 67.26% | 8,905 | 32.74% | 9,393 | 34.53% | 27,203 |
| Mineral | 6,344 | 62.53% | 3,801 | 37.47% | 2,543 | 25.07% | 10,145 |
| Mingo | 12,266 | 79.55% | 3,154 | 20.45% | 9,112 | 59.09% | 15,420 |
| Monongalia | 17,358 | 72.84% | 6,473 | 27.16% | 10,885 | 45.68% | 23,831 |
| Monroe | 3,367 | 58.54% | 2,385 | 41.46% | 982 | 17.07% | 5,752 |
| Morgan | 1,820 | 49.38% | 1,866 | 50.62% | -46 | -1.25% | 3,686 |
| Nicholas | 6,878 | 72.35% | 2,628 | 27.65% | 4,250 | 44.71% | 9,506 |
| Ohio | 21,178 | 63.82% | 12,006 | 36.18% | 9,172 | 27.64% | 33,184 |
| Pendleton | 2,498 | 65.84% | 1,296 | 34.16% | 1,202 | 31.68% | 3,794 |
| Pleasants | 2,287 | 63.07% | 1,339 | 36.93% | 948 | 26.14% | 3,626 |
| Pocahontas | 3,317 | 65.91% | 1,716 | 34.09% | 1,601 | 31.81% | 5,033 |
| Preston | 6,264 | 60.94% | 4,015 | 39.06% | 2,249 | 21.88% | 10,279 |
| Putnam | 6,910 | 62.39% | 4,165 | 37.61% | 2,745 | 24.79% | 11,075 |
| Raleigh | 23,606 | 77.25% | 6,952 | 22.75% | 16,654 | 54.50% | 30,558 |
| Randolph | 8,012 | 72.86% | 2,984 | 27.14% | 5,028 | 45.73% | 10,996 |
| Ritchie | 2,244 | 45.23% | 2,717 | 54.77% | -473 | -9.53% | 4,961 |
| Roane | 3,820 | 52.54% | 3,451 | 47.46% | 369 | 5.07% | 7,271 |
| Summers | 5,037 | 71.97% | 1,962 | 28.03% | 3,075 | 43.93% | 6,999 |
| Taylor | 4,442 | 65.96% | 2,292 | 34.04% | 2,150 | 31.93% | 6,734 |
| Tucker | 2,664 | 66.97% | 1,314 | 33.03% | 1,350 | 33.94% | 3,978 |
| Tyler | 2,275 | 47.43% | 2,522 | 52.57% | -247 | -5.15% | 4,797 |
| Upshur | 3,774 | 51.14% | 3,606 | 48.86% | 168 | 2.28% | 7,380 |
| Wayne | 11,578 | 68.44% | 5,340 | 31.56% | 6,238 | 36.87% | 16,918 |
| Webster | 3,755 | 80.05% | 936 | 19.95% | 2,819 | 60.09% | 4,691 |
| Wetzel | 6,239 | 65.99% | 3,215 | 34.01% | 3,024 | 31.99% | 9,454 |
| Wirt | 1,286 | 58.86% | 899 | 41.14% | 387 | 17.71% | 2,185 |
| Wood | 21,560 | 59.06% | 14,947 | 40.94% | 6,613 | 18.11% | 36,507 |
| Wyoming | 9,188 | 73.12% | 3,377 | 26.88% | 5,811 | 46.25% | 12,565 |
| Totals | 538,087 | 67.94% | 253,953 | 32.06% | 284,134 | 35.87% | 792,040 |
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1964 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ a b Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6.
- ^ Edwards, Lee; Schlafly, Phyllis. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. pp. 286–290. ISBN 162157458X.
- ^ a b Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 334–336. ISBN 0786422173.
- ^ "WV US President — November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.
