1964 United States presidential election in Maine

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in Maine Maine presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in Maine 1960 1968 United States presidential election in Maine 1968 November 3, 1964 x200px 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 4 262,264 68.80% File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 0 118,701 31.14% 350px County results 350px| Municipality results Johnson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% #002B84 90–100% Goldwater #e27f90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #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 Maine took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all fifty states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maine was won by incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas in a landslide over Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Johnson took 68.8% of the vote to Goldwater's 31.14%, a victory margin of 37.66 percentage points, and the strongest-ever performance by a Democrat in the state. Johnson became the first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry this longstanding liberal Republican stronghold, and the first since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win the state with an outright majority. Even amidst a national Democratic landslide, Maine weighed-in in this election as more than 15 points to the left of the nation at-large. Johnson carried Maine by a wide margin of 37.66%, making him the first Democratic candidate since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win a majority (Wilson won the state in 1912 with only a plurality of 39.43%). Johnson was also the first Democrat to sweep all of Maine's counties.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 90 0786422173 He was the first Democrat to carry Somerset County since Martin Van Buren in 1836, the first since Pierce to carry the counties of Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot and Piscataquis and the first since Winfield S. Hancock in 1880 to carry Aroostook County.Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in America; pp. 218-219 Populous Cumberland County, along with Lincoln County, had last voted Democratic for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, while the counties of Hancock, Knox and Waldo had last supported a Democrat when giving Wilson a plurality in 1916. This would prove the last occasion Waldo County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until 1996,Waldo County did give a plurality to Independent H. Ross Perot in 1992. and last when Hancock, Knox, and Lincoln Counties would support a Democratic presidential nominee until Bill Clinton in 1992. Johnson's 80.14% in Androscoggin County is also the last time, as of 2020, that any candidate has broken 80% in any Maine county, and the first time that a Democrat has done so since 1836. Johnson's winning margin of over 143,000 votes is the largest in history for a Democratic presidential candidate in Maine, only beaten by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's over 146,000 margin in 1956. Results 1964 United States presidential election in Mainehttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=23&year=1964&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1964 Presidential General Election Results – Maine 2013-02-07 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic (inc.) Lyndon B. Johnson 262,264 68.80% 4 Republican Barry Goldwater 118,701 31.14% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 256 0.07% 0 Totals 381,221 100.00% 4 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) 65%/73% Results by county County Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic Barry GoldwaterRepublican Various CandidatesWrite-ins Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Androscoggin 30,080 80.14% 7,441 19.82% 14 0.04% 22,639 60.32% 37,535 Aroostook 17,552 63.71% 9,994 36.28% 3 0.01% 7,558 27.43% 27,549 Cumberland 50,844 69.39% 22,365 30.52% 63 0.09% 28,479 38.87% 73,272 Franklin 5,784 66.69% 2,887 33.29% 2 0.02% 2,897 33.40% 8,673 Hancock 7,415 53.98% 6,304 45.89% 18 0.13% 1,111 8.09% 13,737 Kennebec 24,813 68.65% 11,307 31.28% 23 0.06% 13,506 37.37% 36,143 Knox 7,022 61.43% 4,404 38.53% 4 0.03% 2,618 22.90% 11,430 Lincoln 5,099 56.07% 3,984 43.81% 11 0.12% 1,115 12.26% 9,094 Oxford 13,616 71.76% 5,340 28.14% 19 0.10% 8,276 43.62% 18,975 Penobscot 28,766 66.54% 14,449 33.42% 17 0.04% 14,317 33.12% 43,232 Piscataquis 4,781 65.84% 2,473 34.06% 7 0.10% 2,308 31.78% 7,261 Sagadahoc 7,006 71.93% 2,733 28.06% 1 0.01% 4,273 43.87% 9,740 Somerset 10,694 70.11% 4,541 29.77% 18 0.12% 6,153 40.34% 15,253 Waldo 5,397 61.87% 3,324 38.11% 2 0.02% 2,073 23.76% 8,723 Washington 9,312 70.88% 3,816 29.05% 9 0.07% 5,496 41.83% 13,137 York 34,083 71.80% 13,339 28.10% 45 0.09% 20,744 43.70% 47,467Totals262,26468.80%118,70131.14%2560.07%143,56337.66%381,221 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 18em Aroostook Cumberland Franklin Hancock Kennebec Knox Lincoln Oxford Penobscot Piscataquis Sagadahoc Somerset Waldo Washington Analysis Ever since the Republican Party formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the territories, Maine and nearby Vermont had been rock-ribbed Republican, except during the split of 1912, when Maine went to Woodrow Wilson with less than forty percent of the vote. As recently as 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower had won over seventy percent of the vote in the state for the GOP. However, at the same time the GOP was turning its attention from the declining rural Yankee counties to the growing and traditionally Democratic Catholic vote,Phillips, Kevin; The Emerging Republican Majority; pp. 55-60 978-0-691-16324-6 along with the conservative Sun Belt whose growth was driven by air conditioning. This growth meant that activist Republicans centred in the traditionally Democratic, but by the 1960s, middle-class Sun Belt had become much more conservative than the majority of members in the historic Northeastern GOP stronghold.Nexon, David; ‘Asymmetry in the Political System: Occasional Activists in the Republican and Democratic Parties, 1956-1964’, The American Political Science Review, vol. 65, No. 3 (Sep., 1971), pp. 716-730 The consequence of this was that a bitterly divided Grand Old Party was able to nominate the staunchly conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who ran with the equally conservative Republican National Committee chair, Congressman William E. Miller of New York. The staunch conservative Goldwater was widely seen 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 In contrast to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Michigan, Goldwater did not write upper New England off from the beginning of his presidential campaign before Kennedy's assassination.Kelley, Stanley junior; ‘The Goldwater Strategy’; The Princeton Review; pp. 8-11 However, Goldwater's self-avowed extremism was such that he was the first Republican disendorsed by many newspapers in the region since the party was founded.Kabaservice, Geoffrey; Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party; p. 120 1511399031 Polls never gave any doubt that Goldwater would lose Maine, despite considerable September campaigning by running mate Miller.Andrew, John A.; The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (Perspectives on the Sixties series) p. 274 0813524016 See also United States presidential elections in Maine Notes References 2 Maine 1964 Category:1964 Maine elections