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1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia

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1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia

← 1960 November 3, 1964[1] 1968 →
 
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote 7 0
Popular vote 538,087 253,953
Percentage 67.94% 32.06%

County results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

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 (DTexas), with 67.94 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (RArizona), 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, 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-1996red wall” comprising states that have consistently voted Republican since 2000.

Results

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1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 538,087 67.94%
Republican Barry Goldwater 253,953 32.06%
Total votes 792,040 100.00%

Results by county

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County[8] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Barry 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 22.52% 14,085
Boone 8,609 77.73% 2,467 22.27% 6,142 55.46% 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 25.28% 45,394
Calhoun 2,626 67.32% 1,275 32.68% 1,351 34.64% 3,901
Clay 3,182 69.96% 1,366 30.04% 1,816 39.92% 4,548
Doddridge 1,587 50.09% 1,581 49.91% 6 0.18% 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 43.46% 3,948
Grant 1,494 37.75% 2,464 62.25% −970 −24.50% 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 39.30% 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 44.00% 35,669
Jackson 5,022 53.53% 4,359 46.47% 663 7.06% 9,381
Jefferson 4,892 72.02% 1,901 27.98% 2,991 44.04% 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 26.02% 9,288
Logan 16,999 81.82% 3,776 18.18% 13,223 63.64% 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 31.12% 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 66.10% 21,730
Mercer 18,298 67.26% 8,905 32.74% 9,393 34.52% 27,203
Mineral 6,344 62.53% 3,801 37.47% 2,543 25.06% 10,145
Mingo 12,266 79.55% 3,154 20.45% 9,112 59.10% 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 17.08% 5,752
Morgan 1,820 49.38% 1,866 50.62% −46 −1.24% 3,686
Nicholas 6,878 72.35% 2,628 27.65% 4,250 44.70% 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 31.82% 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 24.78% 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 45.72% 10,996
Ritchie 2,244 45.23% 2,717 54.77% −473 −9.54% 4,961
Roane 3,820 52.54% 3,451 47.46% 369 5.08% 7,271
Summers 5,037 71.97% 1,962 28.03% 3,075 43.94% 6,999
Taylor 4,442 65.96% 2,292 34.04% 2,150 31.92% 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 −5.14% 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 36.88% 16,918
Webster 3,755 80.05% 936 19.95% 2,819 60.10% 4,691
Wetzel 6,239 65.99% 3,215 34.01% 3,024 31.98% 9,454
Wirt 1,286 58.86% 899 41.14% 387 17.72% 2,185
Wood 21,560 59.06% 14,947 40.94% 6,613 18.12% 36,507
Wyoming 9,188 73.12% 3,377 26.88% 5,811 46.24% 12,565
Totals 538,087 67.94% 253,953 32.06% 284,134 35.88%

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1964 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  3. ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  4. ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6.
  6. ^ Edwards, Lee; Schlafly, Phyllis. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. pp. 286–290. ISBN 162157458X.
  7. ^ a b Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 334–336. ISBN 0786422173.
  8. ^ "WV US President — November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.