1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina

none June 2025 September 2023 1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina South Carolina presidential no 1960 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1960 1968 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1968 November 3, 1964https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1964 United States Presidential election of 1964 - Encyclopædia Britannica May 27, 2017 x200px File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) Arizona William E. Miller 8 309,048 58.89% 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Texas Hubert Humphrey 0 215,700 41.10% President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) 300px County results 300px Congressional district results 1 Goldwater #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Johnson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% The 1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1965_1969.html#1964 1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69) May 27, 2017 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Background Between 1900 and 1948, no Republican presidential candidate ever obtained more than seven percent of the total presidential voteMickey Robert Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972 2015 978-0691149639 440 – a vote which in 1924 reached as low as 6.6 percent of the total voting-age population.Mickey; Paths Out of Dixie, p. 27. South Carolina was a one-party state dominated by the Democrats due to the disfranchisement of black voters.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 9780691163246 208, 210 Following Harry S. Truman's To Secure These Rights in 1947, the following year South Carolina's Governor Strom Thurmond led almost all of the state Democratic machinery into the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats). As the Dixiecrat presidential candidate, Thurmond won 71 percent of the state's limited electorate and every county except poor white industrial Anderson and Spartanburg.Frederikson Kari The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 9780807875445 185 During the 1950s, the state's wealthier and more urbanized whites became extremely disenchanted with the national Democratic Party and to a lesser extent with the federal administration of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.Graham Cole Blease South Carolina Politics and Government Moore William V. 9780803270435 79, 81 Campaign Roger Milliken invited Barry Goldwater to speak in South Carolina in 1959, and it was televised in the entire state. Milliken later financially supported Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.October 1, 2015 The Man Who Launched the GOP's Civil War Politico https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/roger-milliken-republican-party-history-213212/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20230919201326/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/roger-milliken-republican-party-history-213212/ September 19, 2023 During the 1950s, wealthy textile mill owners in the upcountry developed a grassroots state Republican Party dedicated to the tenets of the John Birch Society. This group nominated the most conservative delegation at the party's 1960 convention.Mickey. Paths out of Dixie, p. 234. These wealthy businessmen would merge with hardline segregationists to draft Barry Goldwater for the Republican nomination in 1960 and join forces therein by the time of the next presidential election. U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party in September, to join the Republicans. Goldwater gave a televised speech in Columbia, South Carolina, that featured segregationist politicians on-stage with him, including Thurmond, Iris Faircloth Blitch, James F. Byrnes, James H. Gray Sr., Albert Watson, and John Bell Williams, in which he criticized the Civil Rights Act.Black Black 1992 152–153 The Democratic Party, for its part, had struggled bitterly over whether to select electors pledged to incumbent President Lyndon Johnson due to his support for civil rights and desegregation; however, like Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, South Carolina chose Democratic electors pledged to LBJ.Congressional Quarterly, Incorporated; CQ Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, vol. 25 (1967), p. 1121. President Johnson did not campaign in the state, being hopeful that a black registration increased by more than Kennedy's 1960 marginJohnson Robert David All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election 0521737524 168 and support from economically liberal Senator Olin Johnston would help him win without campaigning.Johnson. All the Way with LBJ, p. 224. Early polls in South Carolina gave a substantial lead to Goldwater, but by the end of October, the state was viewed as similarly close to the 1952 and 1960 races where the Democrats won by under ten thousand votes.October 31, 1964 State by State Rundown Shows Johnson Way Out in Front 11 The Morning Call Allentown, PennsylvaniaJohnson. All the Way with LBJ, p. 275. Goldwater received 70% of the white vote.Black Black 1992 155 Results 1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina Barry Goldwater Republican Party (United States) 309,048 58.89% Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) Democratic Party (United States) 215,700 41.10% #FFFFFF — Write-in 8 0.00% 524,756 100% Results by county CountyBarry GoldwaterRepublicanLyndon B. JohnsonDemocraticMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % Abbeville 1,448 35.00% 2,689 65.00% −1,241 −30.00% 4,137 Aiken 17,467 69.62% 7,622 30.38% 9,845 39.24% 25,089 Allendale 1,740 69.27% 772 30.73% 968 38.54% 2,512 Anderson 8,398 41.85% 11,670 58.15% −3,272 −16.30% 20,068 Bamberg 2,366 62.51% 1,419 37.49% 947 25.02% 3,785 Barnwell 3,670 72.64% 1,382 27.36% 2,288 45.28% 5,052 Beaufort 3,432 55.54% 2,747 44.46% 685 11.08% 6,179 Berkeley 6,100 63.30% 3,537 36.70% 2,563 26.60% 9,637 Calhoun 1,591 72.22% 612 27.78% 979 44.44% 2,203 Charleston 32,509 69.06% 14,564 30.94% 17,945 38.12% 47,073 Cherokee 3,627 46.00% 4,258 54.00% −631 −8.00% 7,885 Chester 2,915 42.89% 3,882 57.11% −967 −14.22% 6,797 Chesterfield 2,449 34.58% 4,634 65.42% −2,185 −30.84% 7,083 Clarendon 2,960 78.06% 832 21.94% 2,128 56.12% 3,792 Colleton 4,637 69.33% 2,051 30.67% 2,586 38.66% 6,688 Darlington 6,717 57.28% 5,010 42.72% 1,707 14.56% 11,727 Dillon 2,742 49.72% 2,773 50.28% −31 −0.56% 5,515 Dorchester 5,109 76.11% 1,604 23.89% 3,505 52.22% 6,713 Edgefield 2,489 75.13% 824 24.87% 1,665 50.26% 3,313 Fairfield 1,997 43.18% 2,628 56.82% −631 −13.64% 4,625 Florence 10,346 59.11% 7,157 40.89% 3,189 18.22% 17,503 Georgetown 4,705 57.89% 3,423 42.11% 1,282 15.78% 8,128 Greenville 29,358 62.96% 17,275 37.04% 12,083 25.92% 46,633 Greenwood 5,653 50.78% 5,479 49.22% 174 1.56% 11,132 Hampton 2,259 61.09% 1,439 38.91% 820 22.18% 3,698 Horry 8,293 60.37% 5,444 39.63% 2,849 20.74% 13,737 Jasper 1,593 61.39% 1,002 38.61% 591 22.78% 2,595 Kershaw 5,617 63.94% 3,168 36.06% 2,449 27.88% 8,785 Lancaster 4,742 48.83% 4,970 51.17% −228 −2.34% 9,712 Laurens 5,081 53.79% 4,365 46.21% 716 7.58% 9,446 Lee 2,489 68.29% 1,156 31.71% 1,333 36.58% 3,645 Lexington 12,041 71.47% 4,807 28.53% 7,234 42.94% 16,848 Marion 3,197 60.98% 2,046 39.02% 1,151 21.96% 5,243 Marlboro 1,864 43.49% 2,422 56.51% −558 −13.02% 4,286 McCormick 939 65.34% 498 34.66% 441 30.68% 1,437 Newberry 5,571 63.35% 3,222 36.64% 2,349 26.71% 8,794One write-in vote was recorded from this county. Oconee 2,712 32.79% 5,560 67.21% −2,848 −34.42% 8,272 Orangeburg 10,456 65.09% 5,607 34.91% 4,849 30.18% 16,063 Pickens 5,882 62.63% 3,506 37.33% 2,376 25.30% 9,3913 write-in votes were recorded from this county. Richland 27,306 60.35% 17,939 39.65% 9,367 20.70% 45,245 Saluda 2,524 64.17% 1,409 35.83% 1,115 28.34% 3,933 Spartanburg 18,411 47.89% 20,034 52.11% −1,623 −4.22% 38,445 Sumter 7,729 67.19% 3,775 32.81% 3,954 34.38% 11,504 Union 3,815 49.50% 3,892 50.50% −77 −1.00% 7,707 Williamsburg 4,810 68.15% 2,248 31.85% 2,562 36.30% 7,058 York 7,292 46.62% 8,346 53.36% −1,054 −6.74% 15,6424 write-in votes were recorded from this county.Totals309,04858.89%215,70041.10%93,34817.79%524,756 Results by congressional district Goldwater carried 5 of the 6 congressional districts, which all elected Democrats. District1964 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist/index.html?appid=c50a65162a924020a2404711cef83587 July 24, 2024 Western Washington UniversityGoldwaterJohnson1st67.9%32.1%2nd65.7%34.3%3rd50.5%49.5%4th55.9%44.1%5th47.6%52.4%6th58.8%41.2% Analysis The swing away from Johnson was general except in a few areas of substantial black voter registration increases, and Goldwater's lowcountry dominance easily offset Johnson's narrow edge amongst the poor whites of the upcountry who, despite their hostility to Johnson's civil rights measures, saw Goldwater as a Dixiecrat-style conservative committed to privatization of services poor whites viewed essential.Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 263–265. South Carolina was one of five states that swung more Republican in 1964, alongside Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. After narrow losses in 1952 and 1960, Goldwater became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry South Carolina since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. Notes References 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 South Carolina 1964 Category:1964 South Carolina elections