1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey 1896 presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1960 1968 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1968 November 3, 1964 88.49%https://nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/other/2022-1925-general-election-data.pdf General Election Data - 1924 to 2022 NJ.gov ( 2.57%) x200px 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4.jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 17 1,867,671 65.61% File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 0 963,843 33.86% 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 350px County results Johnson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) 1964 United States presidential election The 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1964. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey 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. This is the only time the Democratic nominee won each of New Jersey's 21 counties, and the second of two times that a Republican failed to win any county after 1912. This was the last time each county in New Jersey voted for the same presidential candidate until Republican President Richard Nixon's landslide 1972 re-election. Johnson carried New Jersey in a landslide with 65.61% of the vote to Goldwater's 33.86%, a margin of 31.75%.1964 Presidential General Election Results – New Jersey http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1964&fips=34&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 25 November 2013 Johnson also swept all twenty-one of New Jersey's counties, the only time a Democratic presidential nominee has ever done so.Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, pp. 439-440 0313257957 Johnson was the first Democrat to ever carry Ocean County since it was created in 1850.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 90 0786422173 He was also the first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry Monmouth and Morris Counties and the first since Wilson in 1916 to carry Sussex County, whilst the counties of Bergen, Cape May, Hunterdon and Somerset went Democratic for the first time since FDR‘s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon.Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. Johnson broke 60% of the vote in 15 counties, and 70% in 4: Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Cumberland, besides falling just short of the mark in Essex County, where Johnson received 69.9%. Hudson would be the most Democratic county, giving Johnson 73.5% of the vote. Goldwater’s strongest county was rural Sussex County, where he received 45.2% of the vote to Johnson’s 54.8%. New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean. But this normal pattern was broken in 1964, as Goldwater’s staunch conservatism led many moderate Northeastern Republicans to view Goldwater as an extremist and defect to the Democrats that year. As Johnson won a massive landslide nationally, normally GOP-leaning New Jersey’s result would even be almost 10% more Democratic than the national average. This was also the last time New Jersey would go to a Democratic candidate for president until 1992, after which the state has always gone Democratic. Primary elections Republican primary 1964 New Jersey Republican presidential primary New Jersey presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1960 1968 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1968 1964 04 21 150x150px Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (write-in) Massachusetts 73638c 7,896 41.70% Goldwater for President (cropped).jpg Barry Goldwater (write-in) Arizona a59400 5,309 28.04% 150x150px Richard Nixon (write-in) FF8080 California 4,179 22.07% 1964 New Jersey Republican presidential primary election results by county.svg 300px County Results #73638c Lodge #a59400 Goldwater #b3b3b3 No Votes The Republican primary took place on April 21, 1964. Former Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would win the primary as a write-in candidate, over Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon 1964 New Jersey Republican presidential primaryResults of the Primary Election Held April 21, 1964 https://nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/1920-1970//1964-primary-election.pdf August 17, 2022 Candidate Votes % Henry Cabot Lodge (write-in) 7,896 41.70 Barry Goldwater (write-in) 5,309 28.04 Richard Nixon (write-in) 4,179 22.07 William Scranton (write-in) 633 3.34 Nelson Rockefeller (write-in) 612 3.23 George Wallace (write-in) 220 1.16 Lyndon B. Johnson (write-in) 84 0.44 Total 18,933 100.0 Democratic primary 1964 New Jersey Democratic presidential primary New Jersey presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1960 1968 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1968 1964 04 21 150x150px Lyndon B. Johnson (write-in) Texas 668c63 4,863 82.30% 150x150px George Wallace (write-in) Alabama c13649 491 8.31% 150x150px Robert F. Kennedy (write-in) 73638c MassachusettsOfficial Congressional Directory – 88th Congress 1964 489 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDIR-1964-01-01/pdf/CDIR-1964-01-01.pdf Robert F. Kennedy; Attorney General of the United States; legal residence, Massachusetts. 431 7.29% New Jersey Democratic presidential primary election results by county 1964.svg 300px County Results #668c63 Johnson #c13649 Wallace #6d7878 Tie- Johnson/Kennedy #b3b3b3 No Votes The Democratic primary took place on April 21, 1964. Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson won the primary on a write-in campaign, as no candidate's names were on the ballot. 1964 New Jersey Democratic presidential primaryResults of the Primary Election Held April 21, 1964 https://nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/1920-1970//1964-primary-election.pdf August 17, 2022 Candidate Votes % Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent, write-in) 4,863 82.30 George Wallace (write-in) 491 8.31 Robert Kennedy (write-in) 431 7.29 Henry Cabot Lodge (write-in) 69 1.17 Barry Goldwater (write-in) 30 0.51 Richard Nixon (write-in) 19 0.32 Nelson Rockefeller (write-in) 3 0.05 William Scranton (write-in) 3 0.05 Total 5,909 100.0 Results 1964 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 1,867,671 65.61% 17 Republican Barry Goldwater 963,843 33.86% 0 Socialist Workers Clifton DeBerry 8,181 0.29% 0 Socialist Labor Eric Hass 7,075 0.25% 0 Totals 2,846,770 100.0% 17 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) 69%/88% Results by county County Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic Barry GoldwaterRepublican Clifton DeBerryOur Campaigns; NJ US President 1964Socialist Workers Eric HassSocialist Labor Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Atlantic 50,945 65.30% 25,626 32.85% 1,217 1.56%2310.30% 25,319 32.45% 78,019 Bergen 234,849 59.69% 157,899 40.13% 475 0.12%2420.06% 76,950 19.56% 393,465 Burlington 57,638 64.80% 31,215 35.09% 60 0.07%320.04% 26,423 29.71% 88,945 Camden 124,620 67.09% 60,844 32.75% 47 0.03%2500.13% 63,776 34.34% 185,761 Cape May 14,943 56.65% 11,390 43.18% 13 0.05%340.13% 3,553 13.47% 26,380 Cumberland 33,593 72.69% 12,611 27.29% 6 0.01%50.01% 20,982 45.40% 46,215 Essex 277,042 69.88% 116,172 29.30% 385 0.10%2,8780.73% 160,870 40.58% 396,477 Gloucester 40,305 62.93% 23,702 37.00% 10 0.02%350.05% 16,603 25.93% 64,052 Hudson 200,051 73.55% 69,515 25.56% 211 0.08%2,2320.82% 130,536 47.99% 272,009 Hunterdon 15,091 59.69% 10,173 40.24% 14 0.06%50.02% 4,918 19.45% 25,283 Mercer 86,985 71.17% 35,081 28.70% 49 0.04%990.08% 51,904 42.47% 122,214 Middlesex 151,196 70.12% 63,370 29.39% 840 0.39%2120.10% 87,826 40.73% 215,618 Monmouth 95,320 60.69% 61,367 39.07% 261 0.18%1070.07% 33,953 21.62% 157,055 Morris 73,684 57.16% 55,024 42.68% 125 0.10%800.06% 18,660 14.48% 128,913 Ocean 36,892 57.90% 25,985 40.78% 764 1.20%730.11% 10,907 17.12% 63,714 Passaic 113,919 63.39% 63,114 35.12% 2,362 1.31%3040.17% 50,805 28.27% 179,699 Salem 17,846 67.23% 8,682 32.71% 9 0.03%80.03% 9,164 34.52% 26,545 Somerset 43,659 60.41% 28,416 39.32% 150 0.21%450.06% 15,243 21.09% 72,270 Sussex 14,349 54.77% 11,836 45.18% 3 0.01%90.03% 2,513 9.59% 26,197 Union 164,989 66.17% 82,999 33.29% 1,178 0.47%1810.07% 81,990 32.88% 249,347 Warren 19,755 69.09% 8,822 30.85% 2 0.01%130.05% 10,933 38.24% 28,592Totals1,867,67165.61%963,84333.86%8,1810.29%7,0750.25%903,82831.75%2,846,770 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Atlantic Bergen Burlington Cape May Gloucester Hunterdon Monmouth Morris Ocean Salem Somerset Sussex Union Warren Analysis As of the 2024 election, this is the last election in which Sussex County, Hunterdon County, and Warren County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Union County would not vote Democratic again until 1992. Bergen, Passaic, Ocean, Monmouth, and Cape May Counties would not vote Democratic again until 1996. Somerset County did not vote Democratic again until 2008, and Morris County would not vote Democratic again until 2020.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 As of 2020, this remains the strongest ever performance by a Democratic presidential nominee in New Jersey, the second strongest ever performance by a nominee of either party after Warren G. Harding in 1920. This also remains the last time New Jersey voted to the left of Maryland.New Jersey Voting Results and Participants https://www.countingthevotes.com/newjersey/ 2022-09-10 CountingTheVotes.com en-USMaryland Voting Results and Participants https://www.countingthevotes.com/maryland/ 2022-09-10 CountingTheVotes.com en-US See also United States presidential elections in New Jersey Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson References expanded New Jersey 1964 Category:1964 New Jersey elections