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1964 United States presidential election in California

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election_name	1964 United States presidential election in California
country	California
type	Presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1960 United States presidential election in California
previous_year	1960
next_election	1968 United States presidential election in California
next_year	1968
turnout	88.38% (of registered voters) 0.06 pp
66.00% (of eligible voters) 2.77 pp
election_date
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image1	37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg
nominee1	Lyndon B. Johnson
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
home_state1	Texas
running_mate1	Hubert Humphrey
electoral_vote1	40
popular_vote1	4,171,877
percentage1	59.11%
image2	File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp
nominee2	Barry Goldwater
party2	Republican Party (United States)
home_state2	Arizona
running_mate2	William E. Miller
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	2,879,108
percentage2	40.79%
title	President
posttitle	President-elect
before_election	Lyndon B. Johnson
after_election	Lyndon B. Johnson
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)
map_image	325px
map_size	325px
map_caption	County Results

Main article: 1964 United States presidential election

66.00% (of eligible voters) 2.77 pp

Johnson Goldwater

The 1964 United States presidential election in California took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 40 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California voted for the incumbent Democratic President, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, in a landslide over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

As Johnson won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 61.05% of the vote nationwide, and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins, California weighed in at about 4% more Republican than the national average in the 1964 election. Johnson dominated in liberal Northern California, breaking 60% in many counties and even breaking 70% in Plumas County and the city of San Francisco. However, the Western conservative Goldwater, from neighboring Arizona, appealed to residents of conservative Southern California, where Johnson failed to break his nationwide vote average in a single county. Goldwater indeed won six congressional districts in suburban areas of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties, and carried two heavily populated Southern California counties outright: Orange County and San Diego County, thus holding Johnson below the 60% mark statewide.

Although California has become a strongly Democratic state in recent elections, this was the only presidential election from 1952 to 1988 where the state was carried by a Democrat. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is also the last time that a Democrat has won the counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Kern, Modoc and Tulare. Democrats would not win Nevada County until 2008; and Inyo County until 2020.

California was Barry Goldwater's best state in the modern day "blue wall", which were states won by the Democrats in every presidential election from 1992 to 2012. Johnson was the only Democrat prior to 1992 to carry all of the states of that future "blue wall". This is also the most recent presidential election where Los Angeles County voted more Republican than the state as a whole, as well as the last in which California did not register the most votes cast by a state (New York had more).

Results

Results by county

County	Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic	Barry Goldwater
Republican	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total	4,171,877	59.11%	2,879,108	40.79%	6,601	0.10%	1,292,769	18.32%	7,057,586
	Alameda		283,833		66.42%		142,998		33.46%		509		0.12%		140,835		32.96%		427,340
	Alpine		91		42.33%		124		57.67%		0		0.00%		-33		-15.34%		215
	Amador		3,410		66.89%		1,682		32.99%		6		0.12%		1,728		33.90%		5,098
	Butte		20,831		51.54%		19,574		48.43%		14		0.03%		1,257		3.11%		40,419
	Calaveras		3,145		58.27%		2,244		41.58%		8		0.15%		901		16.69%		5,397
	Colusa		2,790		60.57%		1,811		39.32%		5		0.11%		979		21.25%		4,606
	Contra Costa		113,071		63.44%		65,011		36.47%		163		0.09%		48,060		26.97%		178,245
	Del Norte		3,652		63.77%		2,075		36.23%		0		0.00%		1,577		27.54%		5,727
	El Dorado		8,810		60.30%		5,775		39.53%		25		0.17%		3,035		20.77%		14,610
	Fresno		89,375		65.57%		46,792		34.33%		141		0.10%		42,583		31.24%		136,308
	Glenn		3,937		54.01%		3,351		45.97%		2		0.02%		586		8.04%		7,290
	Humboldt		25,515		66.27%		12,909		33.53%		75		0.20%		12,606		32.74%		38,499
	Imperial		11,143		51.85%		10,330		48.06%		19		0.09%		813		3.79%		21,492
	Inyo		3,161		53.44%		2,751		46.51%		3		0.05%		410		6.93%		5,915
	Kern		64,174		58.71%		45,014		41.18%		120		0.11%		19,160		17.53%		109,308
	Kings		13,073		69.39%		5,753		30.54%		14		0.07%		7,320		38.85%		18,840
	Lake		4,680		56.37%		3,616		43.56%		6		0.07%		1,064		12.81%		8,302
	Lassen		4,072		65.67%		2,124		34.25%		5		0.08%		1,948		31.42%		6,201
	Los Angeles		1,568,300		57.43%		1,161,067		42.52%		1,551		0.05%		407,233		14.91%		2,730,918
	Madera		9,391		67.75%		4,461		32.18%		10		0.07%		4,930		35.57%		13,862
	Marin		46,462		61.65%		28,682		38.06%		220		0.29%		17,780		23.59%		75,364
	Mariposa		1,704		57.41%		1,264		42.59%		0		0.00%		440		14.82%		2,968
	Mendocino		11,869		65.12%		6,322		34.68%		36		0.20%		5,547		30.44%		18,227
	Merced		19,431		68.74%		8,814		31.18%		24		0.08%		10,617		37.56%		28,269
	Modoc		1,972		58.73%		1,386		41.27%		0		0.00%		586		17.46%		3,358
	Mono		666		43.93%		850		56.07%		0		0.00%		-184		-12.14%		1,516
	Monterey		40,093		61.83%		24,579		37.90%		172		0.27%		15,514		23.93%		64,844
	Napa		19,580		62.74%		11,567		37.06%		63		0.20%		8,013		25.68%		31,210
	Nevada		6,397		56.52%		4,899		43.29%		22		0.19%		1,498		13.23%		11,318
	Orange		176,539		44.01%		224,196		55.89%		430		0.10%		-47,657		-11.88%		401,165
	Placer		18,256		65.96%		9,389		33.92%		31		0.12%		8,867		32.04%		27,676
	Plumas		4,019		70.35%		1,686		29.51%		8		0.14%		2,333		40.84%		5,713
	Riverside		80,528		56.79%		61,165		43.14%		95		0.07%		19,363		13.65%		141,788
	Sacramento		149,668		65.68%		77,871		34.17%		332		0.15%		71,797		31.51%		227,871
	San Benito		3,779		60.59%		2,444		39.19%		14		0.22%		1,335		21.40%		6,237
	San Bernardino		123,012		57.11%		92,145		42.78%		243		0.11%		30,867		14.33%		215,400
	San Diego		211,808		49.69%		214,445		50.31%		33		0.00%		-2,637		-0.62%		426,286
	San Francisco		230,758		71.24%		92,994		28.71%		156		0.05%		137,764		42.53%		323,908
	San Joaquin		59,210		61.78%		36,546		38.13%		83		0.09%		22,664		23.65%		95,839
	San Luis Obispo		22,252		59.84%		14,906		40.08%		28		0.08%		7,346		19.76%		37,186
	San Mateo		140,978		64.32%		77,916		35.55%		297		0.13%		63,062		28.77%		219,191
	Santa Barbara		48,381		55.94%		38,020		43.96%		85		0.10%		10,361		11.98%		86,486
	Santa Clara		202,249		63.10%		117,420		36.63%		858		0.27%		84,829		26.47%		320,527
	Santa Cruz		26,714		58.53%		18,836		41.27%		94		0.20%		7,878		17.26%		45,644
	Shasta		19,142		67.52%		9,178		32.37%		30		0.11%		9,964		35.15%		28,350
	Sierra		828		66.72%		413		33.28%		0		0.00%		415		33.44%		1,241
	Siskiyou		9,126		63.66%		5,186		36.18%		23		0.16%		3,940		27.48%		14,335
	Solano		34,930		69.53%		15,263		30.38%		47		0.09%		19,667		39.15%		50,240
	Sonoma		44,354		61.49%		27,677		38.37%		105		0.14%		16,677		23.12%		72,136
	Stanislaus		43,078		66.14%		21,973		33.74%		77		0.12%		21,105		32.40%		65,128
	Sutter		6,787		48.33%		7,241		51.56%		16		0.11%		-454		-3.23%		14,044
	Tehama		6,928		60.42%		4,529		39.50%		10		0.08%		2,399		20.92%		11,467
	Trinity		2,175		63.25%		1,252		36.41%		12		0.34%		923		26.84%		3,439
	Tulare		33,974		60.08%		22,527		39.83%		51		0.09%		11,447		20.25%		56,552
	Tuolumne		4,939		63.16%		2,861		36.59%		20		0.25%		2,078		26.57%		7,820
	Ventura		57,805		58.84%		40,264		40.99%		169		0.17%		17,541		17.85%		98,238
	Yolo		18,266		69.52%		7,976		30.36%		32		0.12%		10,290		39.16%		26,274
	Yuba		6,766		57.64%		4,964		42.29%		9		0.07%		1,802		15.35%		11,739

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Inyo
Glenn
Imperial
Kern
Lake
Marin
Mariposa
Modoc
Monterey
Napa
Nevada
Riverside
San Benito
San Bernardino
San Joaquin
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Santa Cruz
Santa Clara
Santa Barbara
Tehama
Sonoma
Tulare
Yuba

References

"Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018".
(3 November 2020). "California Election Results". The New York Times.
"1964 Presidential General Election Results - California". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.

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