1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire New Hampshire presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1960 1968 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1968 November 3, 1964 x200px 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 4 184,064 63.89% File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 0 104,029 36.11% 280px County results 280px| Municipality results Johnson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Goldwater #e27f90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #800000 90–100% Tie #D4C4DC 40–50% President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) The 1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Hampshire was won overwhelmingly by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his running mate Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Johnson and Humphrey defeated the Republican nominees, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and his running mate Congressman William E. Miller of New York. Johnson took 63.89% of the vote to Goldwater's 36.11%, a margin of 27.78%. The staunch conservative Barry Goldwater was widely perceived in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist;Donaldson, Gary; Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964; p. 190 1510702369 he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war.Edwards, Lee and Schlafly, Phyllis; Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution; pp. 286–290 162157458X Thus Goldwater performed especially weakly in liberal northeastern states like New Hampshire, and for the first time in history, a Democratic presidential candidate swept every Northeastern state in 1964. Not only did Johnson win every Northeastern state, but he won all of them with landslides of over 60% of the vote, including New Hampshire. New Hampshire was the only New England state where Goldwater won a county, winning Carroll County. This would be the last occasion until 2008 that a Democratic presidential nominee would carry Belknap County, and the last until 1996 that the party's nominee would carry Rockingham County (although they would not get a majority there until 2020). New Hampshire as a whole, along with Cheshire, Grafton, Merrimack, and Sullivan Counties,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 257 0786422173 would not vote Democratic again until 1992, after which the state has always gone Democratic except in 2000 when George W. Bush very narrowly won the state over Al Gore. As Johnson won a decisive nationwide landslide with 61.05% of the vote, normally Republican-leaning New Hampshire's results made the state over 5% more Democratic than the national average in the 1964 election. Only in the 1920 Republican landslide, when the state was James M. Cox’s second-best antebellum free state despite being lost by 20%, has New Hampshire voted more Democratic relative to the nation.Counting the Votes; New Hampshire As of 2024, this remains the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee would carry New Hampshire by double-digits, as well as the best Democratic presidential performance in New Hampshire history. Results 1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshirehttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1964&fips=33&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1964 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire 2013-11-16 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 184,064 63.89% 4 Republican Barry Goldwater 104,029 36.11% 0 Totals 288,093 100.00% 4 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) 72%/79% Results by county County Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic Barry GoldwaterRepublican Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % Belknap 8,024 57.59% 5,908 42.41% 2,116 15.18% 13,932 Carroll 4,058 45.01% 4,957 54.99% -899 -9.98% 9,015 Cheshire 13,626 69.58% 5,958 30.42% 7,668 39.16% 19,584 Coös 11,956 71.09% 4,863 28.91% 7,093 42.18% 16,819 Grafton 12,566 59.76% 8,461 40.24% 4,105 19.52% 21,027 Hillsborough 60,236 67.12% 29,503 32.88% 30,733 34.24% 89,739 Merrimack 19,818 61.20% 12,564 38.80% 7,254 22.40% 32,382 Rockingham 27,256 58.30% 19,498 41.70% 7,758 16.60% 46,754 Strafford 17,737 68.01% 8,342 31.99% 9,395 36.02% 26,079 Sullivan 8,787 68.85% 3,975 31.15% 4,812 37.70% 12,762Totals184,06463.89%104,02936.11%80,03527.78%288,093 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Belknap Cheshire Grafton Merrimack Rockingham Sullivan Analysis Despite the scale of Johnson's statewide win, he did not sweep every county in New Hampshire. Carroll County had long been the most Republican county in New Hampshire, voting over 70% Republican in 1960 and over 80% Republican in 1952 and 1956. In 1964, Carroll County would again be the most Republican county in the state, voting 55–45 for Goldwater even as every other county in the state voted decisively for Johnson. Carroll County was not only the only county carried by Goldwater in New Hampshire, it was the only county Goldwater won in all of New England and the Northeastern United States outside of Pennsylvania.In Pennsylvania, Goldwater won four counties, only one of which (and that county only once) has ever voted Democratic since Grover Cleveland. Despite the landslide loss, New Hampshire would prove to be Goldwater's strongest state in the Northeast. Johnson won the remainder of the state by decisive margins, with his strongest victories in the New Deal Democratic base counties of Hillsborough County, Strafford County, and Coös County, which had long been Democratic counties in an otherwise Republican state, even as the rest of the state finally joined them in voting Democratic in 1964. Johnson's strongest victory was in rural, French-Canadian Coös County in the far north of the state, which he won with 71.1% of the vote. See also Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson United States presidential elections in New Hampshire Notes References expanded 1964 New Hamp presidential