1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania 1960 1968 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania 1968 November 3, 1964 x200px 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 29 3,130,954 64.92% File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 0 1,673,657 34.70% 300px County results 300px Congressional district results 300px 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% Tie #D4C4DC President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic The 1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 3, 1964, and was part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 29 representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, President Lyndon B. Johnson, over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson won Pennsylvania by a margin of 30.22%. Apart from William Howard Taft in 1912 (when third-party candidates obtained substantial minorities of the vote), Goldwater's 34.7% of the vote is easily the worst showing for a Republican in the state since the party was founded.Pennsylvania Voting Results and Participants https://www.countingthevotes.com/pennsylvania/ 2024-01-27 CountingTheVotes.com en-US Even relative to Johnson's popular vote landslide, Pennsylvania came out as 7.64% more Democratic than the nation at-large; the only occasion under the current two-party system that the state has been more anomalously Democratic than this was in Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide. During the 1960s the Republican Party 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 lower taxes, warm weather, and air conditioning. This growth meant that activist Republicans centered in the Sun Belt had become much more conservative than the majority of members in historic Northeastern GOP strongholds.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 (September 1971), pp. 716–730. The consequence of this was that a bitterly divided Republican 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, for president in 1964. Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist or at least an inexperienced nominee prone to gaffes;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 liable to provoke a nuclear war.Edwards, Lee and Schlafly, Phyllis; Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution; pp. 286–290, 162157458X. Goldwater wrote Pennsylvania off from the very beginning of his campaign.Kelley, Stanley junior; 'The Goldwater Strategy'; The Princeton Review; pp. 8–11. Pennsylvania Republicans had generally preferred moderate Governor William Scranton for the nomination, who was unsuccessfully encouraged to run by Dwight D. Eisenhower.Donaldson; Liberalism's Last Hurrah, chapter 3. Many Pennsylvania Republicans, such as Representative James G. Fulton, refused to endorse Goldwater.Donaldson; Liberalism's Last Hurrah, p. 180. Results 1964 United States presidential election in PennsylvaniaTim Murphy David Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1964&fips=42&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1964 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania 2018-03-25PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 3,130,954 64.92% 29 Republican Barry Goldwater 1,673,657 34.70% 0 Militant Workers Clifton DeBerry 10,456 0.22% 0 Socialist Labor Eric Hass 5,092 0.11% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 2,531 0.05% 0 Totals 4,822,690 100.00% 29 Voter turnout (voting age/registered) 68%/84% Results by county County Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic Barry GoldwaterRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Adams 11,148 56.13% 8,617 43.39% 95 0.48% 2,531 12.74% 19,860 Allegheny 475,207 66.03% 241,707 33.58% 2,811 0.39% 233,500 32.45% 719,725 Armstrong 21,098 66.37% 10,618 33.40% 74 0.23% 10,480 32.97% 31,790 Beaver 60,492 72.02% 23,174 27.59% 327 0.39% 37,318 44.43% 83,993 Bedford 9,165 53.45% 7,968 46.47% 14 0.08% 1,197 6.98% 17,147 Berks 73,444 66.38% 36,726 33.19% 476 0.43% 36,718 33.19% 110,646 Blair 26,157 51.76% 24,301 48.09% 73 0.14% 1,856 3.67% 50,531 Bradford 10,714 50.63% 10,434 49.31% 14 0.07% 280 1.32% 21,162 Bucks 78,287 60.60% 50,243 38.89% 646 0.50% 28,044 21.71% 129,176 Butler 27,267 60.97% 17,360 38.82% 95 0.21% 9,907 22.15% 44,722 Cambria 55,183 67.63% 26,281 32.21% 134 0.16% 28,902 35.42% 81,598 Cameron 1,904 57.96% 1,376 41.89% 5 0.15% 528 16.07% 3,285 Carbon 15,416 67.49% 7,309 32.00% 116 0.51% 8,107 35.49% 22,841 Centre 16,556 63.20% 9,481 36.19% 158 0.60% 7,075 27.01% 26,195 Chester 47,940 54.10% 40,280 45.46% 390 0.44% 7,660 8.64% 88,610 Clarion 9,235 60.01% 6,143 39.92% 11 0.07% 3,092 20.09% 15,389 Clearfield 19,211 62.67% 11,338 36.99% 103 0.34% 7,873 25.68% 30,652 Clinton 10,038 69.84% 4,298 29.91% 36 0.25% 5,740 39.93% 14,372 Columbia 13,885 60.63% 8,982 39.22% 36 0.16% 4,903 21.41% 22,903 Crawford 18,212 62.82% 10,664 36.78% 115 0.40% 7,548 26.04% 28,991 Cumberland 26,633 52.71% 23,685 46.88% 207 0.41% 2,948 5.83% 50,525 Dauphin 46,119 51.57% 42,718 47.77% 594 0.66% 3,401 3.80% 89,431 Delaware 147,189 56.81% 111,189 42.91% 717 0.28% 36,000 13.90% 259,095 Elk 10,455 70.51% 4,354 29.36% 19 0.13% 6,101 41.15% 14,828 Erie 72,944 69.55% 31,393 29.93% 549 0.52% 41,551 39.62% 104,886 Fayette 45,155 73.35% 16,127 26.20% 276 0.45% 29,028 47.15% 61,558 Forest 1,249 57.99% 900 41.78% 5 0.23% 349 16.21% 2,154 Franklin 19,332 58.68% 13,525 41.06% 85 0.26% 5,807 17.62% 32,942 Fulton 2,180 55.37% 1,747 44.37% 10 0.25% 433 11.00% 3,937 Greene 11,412 74.46% 3,896 25.42% 19 0.12% 7,516 49.04% 15,327 Huntingdon 7,435 52.96% 6,571 46.81% 33 0.24% 864 6.15% 14,039 Indiana 17,568 59.92% 11,706 39.92% 46 0.16% 5,862 20.00% 29,320 Jefferson 10,851 56.34% 8,373 43.47% 37 0.19% 2,478 12.87% 19,261 Juniata 4,138 57.19% 3,087 42.67% 10 0.14% 1,051 14.52% 7,235 Lackawanna 88,131 73.73% 31,272 26.16% 137 0.11% 56,859 47.57% 119,540 Lancaster 53,041 50.27% 52,243 49.52% 224 0.21% 798 0.75% 105,508 Lawrence 29,092 64.35% 15,998 35.39% 117 0.26% 13,094 28.96% 45,207 Lebanon 15,882 46.93% 17,891 52.86% 72 0.21% −2,009 −5.93% 33,845 Lehigh 60,377 64.86% 32,245 34.64% 471 0.51% 28,132 30.22% 93,093 Luzerne 106,397 69.97% 43,895 28.86% 1,779 1.17% 62,502 41.11% 152,071 Lycoming 25,879 57.58% 19,011 42.30% 55 0.12% 6,868 15.28% 44,945 McKean 10,950 57.61% 7,948 41.82% 109 0.57% 3,002 15.79% 19,007 Mercer 32,199 63.68% 18,153 35.90% 211 0.42% 14,046 27.78% 50,563 Mifflin 8,811 59.31% 6,006 40.43% 39 0.26% 2,805 18.88% 14,856 Monroe 10,622 62.41% 6,281 36.91% 116 0.68% 4,341 25.50% 17,019 Montgomery 135,657 56.74% 102,714 42.96% 704 0.29% 32,943 13.78% 239,075 Montour 3,683 59.27% 2,527 40.67% 4 0.06% 1,156 18.60% 6,214 Northampton 58,818 73.08% 21,048 26.15% 619 0.77% 37,770 46.93% 80,485 Northumberland 28,082 62.07% 17,046 37.68% 116 0.26% 11,036 24.39% 45,244 Perry 6,054 52.86% 5,364 46.84% 34 0.30% 690 6.02% 11,452 Philadelphia 670,645 73.42% 239,733 26.24% 3,094 0.34% 430,912 47.18% 913,472 Pike 2,753 50.74% 2,651 48.86% 22 0.41% 102 1.88% 5,426 Potter 3,652 52.86% 3,232 46.78% 25 0.36% 420 6.08% 6,909 Schuylkill 50,560 65.63% 26,386 34.25% 96 0.12% 24,174 31.38% 77,042 Snyder 4,199 44.59% 5,195 55.17% 22 0.23% −996 −10.58% 9,416 Somerset 17,934 54.65% 14,817 45.15% 63 0.19% 3,117 9.50% 32,814 Sullivan 1,690 55.63% 1,344 44.24% 4 0.13% 346 11.39% 3,038 Susquehanna 7,838 54.37% 6,567 45.55% 12 0.08% 1,271 8.82% 14,417 Tioga 7,415 51.16% 7,064 48.73% 16 0.11% 351 2.43% 14,495 Union 4,262 46.25% 4,944 53.65% 10 0.11% −682 −7.40% 9,216 Venango 13,065 56.75% 9,873 42.89% 84 0.36% 3,192 13.86% 23,022 Warren 10,598 63.62% 5,965 35.81% 94 0.56% 4,633 27.81% 16,657 Washington 63,482 72.34% 24,127 27.49% 147 0.17% 39,355 44.85% 87,756 Wayne 5,781 46.89% 6,512 52.82% 35 0.28% −731 −5.93% 12,328 Westmoreland 107,131 71.70% 41,493 27.77% 792 0.53% 65,638 43.93% 149,416 Wyoming 4,268 52.41% 3,864 47.45% 12 0.15% 404 4.96% 8,144 York 58,787 63.30% 33,677 36.26% 408 0.44% 25,110 27.04% 92,872Totals3,130,95464.92%1,673,65734.70%18,0790.37%1,457,29730.22%4,822,690 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 16em Adams Armstrong Bedford Berks Blair Bradford Bucks Butler Cameron Carbon Centre Chester Clarion Clearfield Clinton Columbia Crawford Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Forest Franklin Fulton Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson Juniata Lancaster Lehigh Lycoming McKean Mercer Mifflin Monroe Montgomery Montour Northumberland Perry Pike Potter Somerset Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga Venango Warren Wyoming York Analysis Johnson won all but four counties in Pennsylvania: the central Pennsylvania counties of Snyder and Union, which have not voted Democratic since the Civil War;Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016. northeastern Wayne County, which has never voted Democratic since Grover Cleveland won it in 1892; and Lebanon County, which has only once voted Democratic since 1856 (when Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly won it in his 1936 landslide).Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 381, 0405077114. This was the last presidential election in which Philadelphia was not the most Democratic county in Pennsylvania. This is also the only occasion since 1856 when Somerset, Lancaster, and Huntingdon counties have not voted for the Republican presidential candidate, and marked the first time since that election when suburban Delaware County had not voted Republican.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 287–290, 0786422173. As of the 2024 United States presidential election, this is the only time Cameron County has voted Democratic. Five other counties including Butler, Bradford, Tioga, Potter and McKean cast their solitary vote for a Democratic presidential candidate since at least the Civil War in this election. In addition, much of the Susquehanna Valley and Appalachia (comprising York County, Cumberland County, Franklin County, Adams County, Blair County, Lycoming County, Northumberland County, Bedford County, Butler County, Clarion County, Crawford County, Fulton County, Pike County, Venango County, Mifflin County, Perry County, Jefferson County, Susquehanna County, Wyoming County, Juniata County, Montour County, and Sullivan County) has never voted for a Democratic candidate since. This was the last occasion until 1988 that the Democrats won Indiana County, 1992 that the Democrats won Bucks County, Centre County, Delaware County, Forest County, Lehigh County, Montgomery County, or Warren County, and 2008 that the Democrats won Dauphin County, Berks County, Monroe County, or Chester County.Evie Stone https://www.npr.org/sections/vox-politics/2008/11/372_counties_flipped_in_08.html 372 Counties Flipped In '08 NPR November 13, 2008 2024-05-03 See also United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania References Pennsylvania 1964 Category:1964 Pennsylvania elections