1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1960 1960 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1968 November 3, 1964 presidential no Mississippi Flag of Mississippi (1894-1996).svg Barry Goldwater Arizona 7 Republican Party (United States) 87.14% 356,528 William Miller x200px File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Lyndon B. Johnson Texas Hubert Humphrey 0 12.86% Democratic Party (United States) 52,618 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg 190px County results 190px Congressional district results 304px Goldwater #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% The 1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held on that day throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Less than 10% of Mississippi's black population were registered voters.Bullock, Charles S. and Gaddie, Ronald Keith; The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, pp. 31-33 0806185309 Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. told Mississippians to disobey the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Crespino, Joseph; In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, p. 206 0691122091Mitchell, Dennis J.; A New History of Mississippi; p. 453 1617039764 Ultimately, Goldwater won Mississippi with a 74.28 point margin of victory over Johnson, making Mississippi 97% more Republican than the nation and Goldwater the first Republican to win the state since Reconstruction, even outperforming Johnson's 71% margin of victory in the District of Columbia. While Goldwater would suffer a landslide defeat to Johnson in both the national popular vote and Electoral College, his performance in Mississippi was the largest presidential vote share of any Republican presidential nominee ever in any state.Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 403 0313257957 Goldwater's victory, alongside Johnson's victory in Rhode Island marked the last time a Presidential nominee won over 80% of the vote in a state. Over ninety percent of Mississippi's electorate viewed President Johnson as having done a bad job and 96.4 percent opposed the Civil Rights Act, compared to only 54 percent in the antebellum slave states and Oklahoma.Harris, Louis; 'Mississippi Vote Points Up Power Of Local Emotions: Johnson Job Ratings'; The New York Times, November 23, 1964, p. A2 Additionally, 87 percent of Mississippi voters, vis-à-vis 48 percent in the South as a whole, believed that President Johnson was failing at countering domestic Communism. This reflected the widespread belief among Mississippi whites that civil rights activists were funded by communists.Asch, Chris Myers; The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, p. 190 0807878057McGuire, Danielle L. and Dittmer, John; Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement, p. 125 081313448X Campaign Neither Governor Johnson nor any other major state or federal politician offered President Johnson any support in his statewide campaign, which was left to inexperienced Greenville lawyer Douglas Wynn.'Mississippi Ousts House Democrat: Goldwater Carries the State by Crushing Plurality'; The New York Times, November 4, 1964, p. 11 Governor Johnson and four of the state's five Congressmen were silent about supporting Goldwater, though Congressman John Bell Williams supported him openly. In July, polling suggested Goldwater would receive ninety percent of Mississippi's vote,McKee, Don; 'Governors See Barry Slipping In South as Conference Opens: Johnson Gains in Louisiana', The Washington Post, October 13, 1964, p. A@ but this fell to seventy in AugustManly, Chesly; 'Goldwater Landslide Seen in Mississippi: Many in Office Believe He'll Poll Seventy Percent'; Chicago Tribune, August 12, 1964, pp. 1, 6 and to between sixty and sixty-five in October due to fears that he would abolish the Rural Electrification Administration. By the weekend before election day, University of California political scientist Peter H. Odegard believed that Goldwater would win only AlabamaIn Alabama, Goldwater was opposed by a slate of unpledged Democratic electors who would not have voted for President Johnson had they carried the state. and Mississippi.'Expert Sees Barry Winning Just Ala., Miss.', The Boston Globe, November 1, 1964, p. 51 Mississippi was one of five states that swung more Republican in 1964, alongside Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina. Goldwater defeated Johnson by a margin comparable to what had been predicted in the earliest polls, and much greater than predicted immediately before the election. Over-representation of urban areas in polling was blamed for this discrepancy.Burnham, Walter Dean; 'American Voting Behavior and the 1964 Election', Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Feb., 1968), p. 34 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time that Claiborne, Holmes and Jefferson counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Goldwater received 90% of the white vote in the state.Black Black 1992 155 Results 1964 United States presidential election in Mississippihttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=28&year=1964 1964 Presidential General Election Results – Mississippi June 9, 2016PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Mississippi Republican Barry Goldwater 356,528 87.14% 7 National Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 52,618 12.86% 0 Totals 409,146 100.00% 7 Voter turnout (Voting age) 33.9% Results by county County Barry GoldwaterRepublican Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % Adams 5,900 84.37% 1,093 15.63% 4,807 68.74% 6,993 Alcorn 3,377 63.79% 1,917 36.21% 1,460 27.58% 5,294 Amite 2,742 96.38% 103 3.62% 2,639 92.76% 2,845 Attala 4,409 94.37% 263 5.63% 4,146 88.74% 4,672 Benton 934 79.83% 236 20.17% 698 59.66% 1,170 Bolivar 4,680 86.49% 731 13.51% 3,949 72.98% 5,411 Calhoun 3,224 91.64% 294 8.36% 2,930 83.28% 3,518 Carroll 2,043 95.42% 98 4.58% 1,945 90.84% 2,141 Chickasaw 3,138 91.83% 279 8.17% 2,859 83.66% 3,417 Choctaw 2,096 93.32% 150 6.68% 1,946 86.64% 2,246 Claiborne 1,226 93.59% 84 6.41% 1,142 87.18% 1,310 Clarke 3,591 93.42% 253 6.58% 3,338 86.84% 3,844 Clay 2,848 92.65% 226 7.35% 2,622 85.30% 3,074 Coahoma 4,172 81.23% 964 18.77% 3,208 62.46% 5,136 Copiah 4,506 94.96% 239 5.04% 4,267 89.92% 4,745 Covington 3,033 88.55% 392 11.45% 2,641 77.10% 3,425 DeSoto 2,928 86.40% 461 13.60% 2,467 72.80% 3,389 Forrest 9,291 89.17% 1,128 10.83% 8,163 78.34% 10,419 Franklin 2,211 96.05% 91 3.95% 2,120 92.10% 2,302 George 2,797 92.04% 242 7.96% 2,555 84.08% 3,039 Greene 1,845 89.52% 216 10.48% 1,629 79.04% 2,061 Grenada 3,648 95.92% 155 4.08% 3,493 91.84% 3,803 Hancock 2,550 62.95% 1,501 37.05% 1,049 25.90% 4,051 Harrison 16,301 75.14% 5,393 24.86% 10,908 50.28% 21,694 Hinds 36,831 87.93% 5,058 12.07% 31,773 75.86% 41,889 Holmes 3,115 96.59% 110 3.41% 3,005 93.18% 3,225 Humphreys 1,863 95.69% 84 4.31% 1,779 91.38% 1,947 Issaquena 456 93.06% 34 6.94% 422 86.12% 490 Itawamba 2,140 65.50% 1,127 34.50% 1,013 31.00% 3,267 Jackson 11,357 82.73% 2,371 17.27% 8,986 65.46% 13,728 Jasper 2,994 92.69% 236 7.31% 2,758 85.38% 3,230 Jefferson 1,258 94.80% 69 5.20% 1,189 89.60% 1,327 Jefferson Davis 2,351 90.91% 235 9.09% 2,116 81.82% 2,586 Jones 12,123 85.95% 1,981 14.05% 10,142 71.90% 14,104 Kemper 2,185 91.96% 191 8.04% 1,994 83.92% 2,376 Lafayette 3,202 81.64% 720 18.36% 2,482 63.28% 3,922 Lamar 3,372 90.99% 334 9.01% 3,038 81.98% 3,706 Lauderdale 13,291 89.36% 1,583 10.64% 11,708 78.72% 14,874 Lawrence 2,373 90.95% 236 9.05% 2,137 81.90% 2,609 Leake 4,343 96.23% 170 3.77% 4,173 92.46% 4,513 Lee 5,165 68.19% 2,409 31.81% 2,756 36.38% 7,574 Leflore 5,589 93.63% 380 6.37% 5,209 87.26% 5,969 Lincoln 6,750 93.92% 437 6.08% 6,313 87.84% 7,187 Lowndes 6,135 92.01% 533 7.99% 5,602 84.02% 6,668 Madison 3,283 92.90% 251 7.10% 3,032 85.80% 3,534 Marion 5,469 91.55% 505 8.45% 4,964 83.10% 5,974 Marshall 2,251 86.78% 343 13.22% 1,908 73.56% 2,594 Monroe 5,627 85.10% 985 14.90% 4,642 70.20% 6,612 Montgomery 3,181 95.53% 149 4.47% 3,032 91.06% 3,330 Neshoba 5,431 94.88% 293 5.12% 5,138 89.76% 5,724 Newton 4,735 95.21% 238 4.79% 4,497 90.42% 4,973 Noxubee 1,980 96.59% 70 3.41% 1,910 93.18% 2,050 Oktibbeha 3,795 90.68% 390 9.32% 3,405 81.36% 4,185 Panola 4,002 90.65% 413 9.35% 3,589 81.30% 4,415 Pearl River 4,009 84.51% 735 15.49% 3,274 69.02% 4,744 Perry 1,775 86.42% 279 13.58% 1,496 72.84% 2,054 Pike 6,418 92.20% 543 7.80% 5,875 84.40% 6,961 Pontotoc 2,699 79.36% 702 20.64% 1,997 58.72% 3,401 Prentiss 2,289 69.32% 1,013 30.68% 1,276 38.64% 3,302 Quitman 2,065 86.01% 336 13.99% 1,729 72.02% 2,401 Rankin 7,541 95.78% 332 4.22% 7,209 91.56% 7,873 Scott 4,729 95.21% 238 4.79% 4,491 90.42% 4,967 Sharkey 1,116 89.71% 128 10.29% 988 79.42% 1,244 Simpson 4,949 94.81% 271 5.19% 4,678 89.62% 5,220 Smith 4,045 94.44% 238 5.56% 3,807 88.88% 4,283 Stone 1,776 90.84% 179 9.16% 1,597 81.68% 1,955 Sunflower 4,127 94.27% 251 5.73% 3,876 88.54% 4,378 Tallahatchie 3,126 92.46% 255 7.54% 2,871 84.92% 3,381 Tate 2,390 89.41% 283 10.59% 2,107 78.82% 2,673 Tippah 2,482 71.82% 974 28.18% 1,508 43.64% 3,456 Tishomingo 1,934 66.44% 977 33.56% 957 32.88% 2,911 Tunica 945 90.52% 99 9.48% 846 81.04% 1,044 Union 2,939 70.38% 1,237 29.62% 1,702 40.76% 4,176 Walthall 3,014 95.14% 154 4.86% 2,860 90.28% 3,168 Warren 7,409 81.96% 1,631 18.04% 5,778 63.92% 9,040 Washington 5,611 73.68% 2,004 26.32% 3,607 47.36% 7,615 Wayne 3,539 92.77% 276 7.23% 3,263 85.54% 3,815 Webster 2,884 92.41% 237 7.59% 2,647 84.82% 3,121 Wilkinson 1,473 93.46% 103 6.54% 1,370 86.92% 1,576 Winston 3,922 94.30% 237 5.70% 3,685 88.60% 4,159 Yalobusha 2,385 90.20% 259 9.80% 2,126 80.40% 2,644 Yazoo 4,801 95.92% 204 4.08% 4,597 91.84% 5,005Totals356,52887.14%52,61812.86%303,91074.28%409,146 Counties that flipped from Unpledged to Republican 16em Adams Bolivar Carroll Coahoma Covington Clarke Franklin Grenada George Greene Humphreys Hinds Lamar Lauderdale Marshall Lawrence Lincoln Marion Noxubee Newton Oktibbeha Quitman Sharkey Pearl River Perry Stone Wilkinson Wayne Webster Amite Calhoun Chickasaw Clarke Clay Copiah Issaquena Jefferson Davis Leake Leflore Madison Montgomery Panola Pike Rankin Scott Simpson Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Walthall Madison Marshall Wilkinson Yalobusha Winston Yazoo Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 16em Alcorn Attala Benton Choctaw Coahoma Desoto Hancock Harrison Itawamba Jasper Jackson Jones Kemper Lafayette Lee Monroe Neshoba Pontotoc Prentiss Smith Tippah Tishomingo Union Washington Warren References Notes Works cited Black Earl Earl Black (political scientist) Black Merle Merle Black The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected Harvard University Press 1992 https://archive.org/details/vitalsouthhowpre0000blac 0674941306 Mississippi Category:1964 Mississippi elections 1964