United States presidential election in California, 1964

United States presidential election in California, 1964

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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   Johnson—70-80%   Johnson—60-70%   Johnson—50-60%   Goldwater—50-60%
President before election Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

In the 1964 United States presidential election, the state of California voted for the incumbent Democratic President, Lyndon B. Johnson, in a landslide over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

As Johnson won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 61.05 percent of the vote nationwide, and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins, California weighed in as about 4 percent more Republican than the national average in the 1964 election. Johnson dominated in more 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, did hold some appeal in more conservative Southern California, where Johnson failed to break his nationwide vote average in a single county. Goldwater indeed won seven congressional districts in the south coastal area and carried two heavily populated Southern California counties, Orange County, and San Diego County, thus holding Johnson below the 60% mark statewide.