1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia West Virginia presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in West Virginia 1960 1968 United States presidential election in West Virginia 1968 November 3, 1964 75.04%West Virginia Blue Book - 1965 - Page 779 https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/publications/bluebook/WVS_Bluebook_1965.pdf West Virginia Legislature (of registered voters) x200px 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 7 538,087 67.94% Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 0 253,953 32.06% 1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia results map by county.svg 300px County results Johnson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Goldwater #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) The 1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose sevenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1965_1969.html#1964 1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69) May 30, 2017 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. West Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 67.94 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 32.06 percent of the popular vote.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=54&year=1964 1964 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia May 30, 2017http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1964 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964 May 30, 2017 In a state where Goldwater was widely perceived as an extremist and excessively allied with the Deep South,Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 363–365 978-0-691-16324-6 and where Johnson's campaign's presentation of his Republican opponent as a warmonger who would provoke nuclear warEdwards Lee Schlafly Phyllis Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution 286–290 162157458X had particular resonance in an isolationist Appalachian population, the incumbent President's 67.94 percent vote share and 538,087-vote total are the highest percentage and vote count ever received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history. It is also the most votes received by any candidate in West Virginia until Donald Trump surpassed this total in 2020. West Virginia would be easily Johnson's strongest antebellum slave state and his sixth-best overall behind Rhode Island, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine and New York, voting overall 13.29 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large even in a huge landslide. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the only election since the Civil War in which a Democratic presidential candidate won Preston County and Upshur County.Menendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 334–336 0786422173 It is also the last occasion when Berkeley County, Wood County, and Doddridge County backed a Democrat for President. This also remains the last time that West Virginia and neighboring Virginia would simultaneously vote Democratic at the presidential level. Results 1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) Democratic Party (United States) 538,087 67.94% Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) 253,953 32.06% 792,040 100.00% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2516 WV US President — November 03, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Barry GoldwaterRepublican Margin Total votescast # % # % # % Barbour 4,758 65.26% 2,533 34.74% 2,225 30.52% 7,291 Berkeley 8,628 61.26% 5,457 38.74% 3,171 22.52% 14,085 Boone 8,609 77.73% 2,467 22.27% 6,142 55.46% 11,076 Braxton 4,787 71.94% 1,867 28.06% 2,920 43.88% 6,654 Brooke 9,834 74.51% 3,364 25.49% 6,470 49.02% 13,198 Cabell 28,437 62.64% 16,957 37.36% 11,480 25.28% 45,394 Calhoun 2,626 67.32% 1,275 32.68% 1,351 34.64% 3,901 Clay 3,182 69.96% 1,366 30.04% 1,816 39.92% 4,548 Doddridge 1,587 50.09% 1,581 49.91% 6 0.18% 3,168 Fayette 19,990 83.15% 4,051 16.85% 15,939 66.30% 24,041 Gilmer 2,832 71.73% 1,116 28.27% 1,716 43.46% 3,948 Grant 1,494 37.75% 2,464 62.25% −970 −24.50% 3,958 Greenbrier 10,112 68.97% 4,549 31.03% 5,563 37.94% 14,661 Hampshire 3,381 69.65% 1,473 30.35% 1,908 39.30% 4,854 Hancock 14,001 73.65% 5,009 26.35% 8,992 47.30% 19,010 Hardy 2,996 69.61% 1,308 30.39% 1,688 39.22% 4,304 Harrison 25,683 72.00% 9,986 28.00% 15,697 44.00% 35,669 Jackson 5,022 53.53% 4,359 46.47% 663 7.06% 9,381 Jefferson 4,892 72.02% 1,901 27.98% 2,991 44.04% 6,793 Kanawha 70,511 64.75% 38,383 35.25% 32,128 29.50% 108,894 Lewis 5,248 63.79% 2,979 36.21% 2,269 27.58% 8,227 Lincoln 5,852 63.01% 3,436 36.99% 2,416 26.02% 9,288 Logan 16,999 81.82% 3,776 18.18% 13,223 63.64% 20,775 Marion 22,047 74.10% 7,707 25.90% 14,340 48.20% 29,754 Marshall 11,757 65.56% 6,175 34.44% 5,582 31.12% 17,932 Mason 6,511 59.31% 4,467 40.69% 2,044 18.62% 10,978 McDowell 18,046 83.05% 3,684 16.95% 14,362 66.10% 21,730 Mercer 18,298 67.26% 8,905 32.74% 9,393 34.52% 27,203 Mineral 6,344 62.53% 3,801 37.47% 2,543 25.06% 10,145 Mingo 12,266 79.55% 3,154 20.45% 9,112 59.10% 15,420 Monongalia 17,358 72.84% 6,473 27.16% 10,885 45.68% 23,831 Monroe 3,367 58.54% 2,385 41.46% 982 17.08% 5,752 Morgan 1,820 49.38% 1,866 50.62% −46 −1.24% 3,686 Nicholas 6,878 72.35% 2,628 27.65% 4,250 44.70% 9,506 Ohio 21,178 63.82% 12,006 36.18% 9,172 27.64% 33,184 Pendleton 2,498 65.84% 1,296 34.16% 1,202 31.68% 3,794 Pleasants 2,287 63.07% 1,339 36.93% 948 26.14% 3,626 Pocahontas 3,317 65.91% 1,716 34.09% 1,601 31.82% 5,033 Preston 6,264 60.94% 4,015 39.06% 2,249 21.88% 10,279 Putnam 6,910 62.39% 4,165 37.61% 2,745 24.78% 11,075 Raleigh 23,606 77.25% 6,952 22.75% 16,654 54.50% 30,558 Randolph 8,012 72.86% 2,984 27.14% 5,028 45.72% 10,996 Ritchie 2,244 45.23% 2,717 54.77% −473 −9.54% 4,961 Roane 3,820 52.54% 3,451 47.46% 369 5.08% 7,271 Summers 5,037 71.97% 1,962 28.03% 3,075 43.94% 6,999 Taylor 4,442 65.96% 2,292 34.04% 2,150 31.92% 6,734 Tucker 2,664 66.97% 1,314 33.03% 1,350 33.94% 3,978 Tyler 2,275 47.43% 2,522 52.57% −247 −5.14% 4,797 Upshur 3,774 51.14% 3,606 48.86% 168 2.28% 7,380 Wayne 11,578 68.44% 5,340 31.56% 6,238 36.88% 16,918 Webster 3,755 80.05% 936 19.95% 2,819 60.10% 4,691 Wetzel 6,239 65.99% 3,215 34.01% 3,024 31.98% 9,454 Wirt 1,286 58.86% 899 41.14% 387 17.72% 2,185 Wood 21,560 59.06% 14,947 40.94% 6,613 18.12% 36,507 Wyoming 9,188 73.12% 3,377 26.88% 5,811 46.24% 12,565Totals538,08767.94%253,95332.06%284,13435.88% Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Barbour Berkeley Cabell Doddridge Jackson Kanawha Lewis Mason Mineral Monroe Pleasants Preston Putnam Roane Taylor Upshur Wetzel Wirt Wood References West Virginia 1964 Category:1964 West Virginia elections