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1964 United States presidential election in Georgia

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FieldValue
election_name1964 United States presidential election in Georgia
countryGeorgia (U.S. state)
typepresidential
flag_year1956
ongoingno
previous_election1960 United States presidential election in Georgia
previous_year1960
next_election1968 United States presidential election in Georgia
next_year1968
election_dateNovember 3, 1964
image_sizex200px
image1File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp
nominee1**Barry Goldwater**
party1Republican Party (United States)
home_state1Arizona
running_mate1**William E. Miller**
electoral_vote1**12**
popular_vote1**616,584**
percentage1**54.12%**
image237 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg
nominee2Lyndon B. Johnson
party2Democratic Party (United States)
home_state2Texas
running_mate2Hubert Humphrey
electoral_vote20
popular_vote2522,557
percentage245.87%
map_imageGeorgia Presidential Election Results 1964.svg
map_size290px
map_captionCounty Results
titlePresident
before_electionLyndon B. Johnson
before_partyDemocratic Party (United States)
after_electionLyndon B. Johnson
after_partyDemocratic Party (United States)

Main article: 1964 United States presidential election

Goldwater Johnson The 1964 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held on that day throughout all 50 states and The District of Columbia. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Republican nominee and U.S. Senator from Arizona Barry Goldwater carried the state by 8.3 percentage points over incumbent Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson. With his victory, Goldwater became the first Republican to ever carry the state in a presidential election. This was an impressive feat, especially given that Goldwater lost to Lyndon B. Johnson nationally in a landslide. Georgia joined the other Deep South states of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana in supporting the Arizona senator as a protest against the Civil Rights Act, although it did so by a smaller margin – 8.25% – than any other Deep South state Goldwater carried.

This election was the first time since 1836 that a Democrat would win the presidency without carrying Georgia. Georgia was also one of three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being Alaska and Vermont, both of which voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time. Georgia was one of five states that swung more Republican in 1964, alongside Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina.

Pro-Union and almost entirely white Appalachia, which previously supported Republican candidates, gave Towns County to the Democrats for the first time since 1952, and nearly switched Gilmer and Pickens Counties.

Campaign

James H. Gray Sr., the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, supported Goldwater. Calvin F. Craig, the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, supported Goldwater as he saw the election as a battle between Goldwater's "Americanism" and Johnson's "socialism". A "Democrats for Goldwater" group was also organized by the "Citizens' Council".

The majority of opinion polls between July and early October suggested that, despite this widespread opposition to Johnson's programs, Goldwater would not win Georgia. In fact, in early August, Georgia was viewed as alongside Arkansas and North Carolina as the most secure southern state for Johnson. Nevertheless, those Democratic Party delegates who refused to support Goldwater because of his policies on rural electrification and subsidies to tobacco farmers were concerned that Goldwater could carry Georgia – and the entire South – as early as late August.

Moreover, in Valdosta in the far south, the region where resistance to black civil rights was most extreme, white union workers in September had been polled as supporting Goldwater 315 to 19, with 1 vote for George Wallace who would carry the state in 1968. By the end of September, it was clear that the state was bitterly divided, with the previously rock-solid Democratic south rooting for Goldwater but defections from Republican support during the previous election in the northern counties appearing to be almost as widespread, because there was some hope Johnson could reverse large population declines and win support through his program of war on poverty. By the end of October, amidst much campaigning in the state by both Johnson and Goldwater, it was generally thought Georgia was leaning towards the Republicans.

Compared to the previous election, Georgia swung to the Republicans by over 34%, though this masked enormous regional differences. Among the rural areas of the "black belt" and the south of the state, there were enormous swings to Goldwater as the whites – the only people who voted – totally deserted Johnson. For instance, Miller County went from 94% for Kennedy to only 14% for Johnson, and Lee County from 69% for Kennedy to only 19 percent for Johnson.

In contrast, only 55% of those Georgian voters who supported Nixon in 1960 remained with Goldwater. Deserting of the Republicans in pro-Union and almost entirely white Appalachia gave Towns County to the Democrats for the first time since 1952, and nearly switched Gilmer and Pickens Counties. Illustrating the "bifurcated" political change in the state was that while FDR carried the state by 83.83 percentage points in 1932, Herbert Hoover had won Towns County by 48 votes. One of the best examples of anti-Catholic voters going to Democrats was Long County, which had only given Kennedy 23 percent of the vote in 1960, but gave Johnson 84% in 1964. Goldwater received 65% of the white vote.

During the concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third District House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

Results

PartyPledged toElectorVotesTotal votes1,139,352
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterMoye616,600
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterDougherty616,584
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterKaliher616,425
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterHoward616,380
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterScholoth616,330
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterKent616,292
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterPickett616,289
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterLevison616,284
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterWasden616,244
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterHartness616,197
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterStokes616,017
Republican Party (United States)}}Republican PartyBarry GoldwaterSmith615,851
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Sanders522,557
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Fuqua522,457
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Rutland522,425
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Smith522,423
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Richardson522,408
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Peters522,392
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Gillis522,391
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Fickling522,387
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Lewis522,373
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Carmichael522,196
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Ellard522,189
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyLyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)Barnes522,163
Independent}}Write-inGeorge Wallace39
Independent}}Write-inRichard Russell24
Independent}}Write-inRichard B. Russell24
Independent}}Write-inHerman Talmadge19
Independent}}Write-inWilliam Scranton10
Independent}}Write-inAdlai Stevenson10
Independent}}Write-inGeo. Wallace10
Independent}}Write-inRichard Nixon9
Independent}}Write-inGeo. W. Wallace7
Independent}}Write-inHenry Cabot Lodge6
Independent}}Write-inLester Maddox5
Independent}}Write-inRobert F. Kennedy4
Independent}}Write-inRobert Kennedy3
Independent}}Write-inNelson Rockefeller3
Independent}}Write-inWalter Cronkite2
Independent}}Write-inLang Gammon2
Independent}}Write-inDick Russell2
Independent}}Write-inGeorge C. Wallace2
Independent}}Write-inThomas B. Chapman1
Independent}}Write-inClifton Dewberry1
Independent}}Write-inMarvin Griffin1
Independent}}Write-inJoseph B. Lightburn1
Independent}}Write-inGeorge Romney1
Independent}}Write-inGovernor Romney1
Independent}}Write-inDean Rusk1
Independent}}Write-inWm. Scranton1
Independent}}Write-inMargaret Chase Smith1
Independent}}Write-inAdelaide Stevenson1
Independent}}Write-inHarry S. Truman1
Independent}}Write-inGeorge A. Wallace1
Independent}}Write-inGov. Wallace1
Independent}}Write-inRobert Welch1

Results by county

CountyBarry Goldwater
RepublicanLyndon B. Johnson
DemocraticVarious candidates
Write-insMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%Totals616,58454.12%522,55745.87%1950.02%94,0278.25%1,139,336
Appling2,59762.44%1,56237.56%1,03524.88%4,159
Atkinson1,15758.76%81141.19%10.05%34617.57%1,969
Bacon2,13664.43%1,17935.57%95728.86%3,315
Baker91460.33%60039.60%10.07%31420.73%1,515
Baldwin3,43055.59%2,74044.41%69011.18%6,170
Banks54830.34%1,25869.66%-710-39.32%1,806
Barrow2,31650.42%2,27749.58%390.84%4,593
Bartow2,81337.77%4,63562.23%-1,822-24.46%7,448
Ben Hill2,08957.82%1,52342.15%10.03%56615.67%3,613
Berrien4,07360.51%2,65839.49%1,41521.02%6,731
Bibb25,64158.98%17,83141.02%7,81017.96%43,472
Bleckley2,57872.50%97827.50%1,60045.00%3,556
Brantley1,23157.52%90942.48%32215.04%2,140
Brooks2,34269.50%1,02730.47%10.03%1,31539.03%3,370
Bryan1,43362.58%85737.42%57625.16%2,290
Bulloch4,82363.94%2,72036.06%2,10327.88%7,543
Burke3,03471.52%1,20828.48%1,82643.04%4,242
Butts1,26145.12%1,53454.88%-273-9.76%2,795
Calhoun1,06678.67%28921.33%77757.34%1,355
Camden1,80251.56%1,69348.44%1093.12%3,495
Candler1,71068.26%79531.74%91536.52%2,505
Carroll4,98450.96%4,79449.02%20.02%1901.94%9,780
Catoosa4,14358.59%2,92241.32%60.08%1,22117.27%7,071
Charlton1,17967.26%57432.74%60534.52%1,753
Chatham33,14158.85%23,17641.15%10.00%9,96517.70%56,318
Chattahoochee24656.29%19143.71%5512.58%437
Chattooga1,47627.01%3,98672.94%30.05%-2,510-45.93%5,465
Cherokee3,39851.59%3,18948.41%2093.18%6,587
Clarke4,87539.33%7,51960.67%-2,644-21.34%12,394
Clay54460.04%36039.74%20.22%18420.30%906
Clayton10,48864.08%5,86935.86%100.06%4,61928.22%16,367
Clinch1,08460.56%70639.44%37821.12%1,790
Cobb20,86355.62%16,64744.38%10.00%4,21611.24%37,511
Coffee4,39261.76%2,71938.24%1,67323.52%7,111
Colquitt6,49371.67%2,56328.29%40.04%3,93043.38%9,060
Columbia2,57564.33%1,42835.67%1,14728.66%4,003
Cook2,05860.62%1,33739.38%72121.24%3,395
Coweta3,65649.62%3,71250.38%-56-0.76%7,368
Crawford95756.96%72343.04%23413.92%1,680
Crisp3,33765.52%1,75634.48%1,58131.04%5,093
Dade1,37852.84%1,22747.05%30.12%1515.79%2,608
Dawson63940.67%93259.33%-293-18.66%1,571
Decatur5,06071.55%2,01128.44%10.01%3,04943.11%7,072
DeKalb49,44857.10%37,15442.90%12,29414.20%86,602
Dodge3,28558.03%2,37641.97%90916.06%5,661
Dooly1,66253.05%1,47146.95%1916.10%3,133
Dougherty12,77670.88%5,24829.12%7,52841.76%18,024
Douglas3,31557.00%2,50143.00%81414.00%5,816
Early2,39875.67%77124.33%1,62751.34%3,169
Echols39968.44%18431.56%21536.88%583
Effingham2,67679.74%68020.26%1,99659.48%3,356
Elbert1,88737.30%3,17262.70%-1,285-25.40%5,059
Emanuel3,31159.23%2,27940.77%1,03218.46%5,590
Evans1,57266.30%79933.70%77332.60%2,371
Fannin3,43354.77%2,83445.21%10.02%5999.56%6,268
Fayette1,34959.98%89639.84%40.18%45320.14%2,249
Floyd9,84952.85%8,75046.95%370.20%1,0995.90%18,636
Forsyth1,47146.64%1,68253.33%10.03%-211-6.69%3,154
Franklin86423.84%2,75876.10%20.06%-1,894-52.26%3,624
Fulton73,20543.90%93,54056.09%110.01%-20,335-12.19%166,756
Gilmer2,16750.09%2,15949.91%80.18%4,326
Glascock83686.19%13413.81%70272.38%970
Glynn7,34156.22%5,71243.75%40.03%1,62912.47%13,057
Gordon2,31741.55%3,26058.45%-943-16.90%5,577
Grady2,98361.25%1,88738.75%1,09622.50%4,870
Greene1,09328.83%2,69871.17%-1,605-42.34%3,791
Gwinnett6,82350.42%6,70549.55%30.02%1180.87%13,531
Habersham1,59531.84%3,41268.12%20.04%-1,817-36.28%5,009
Hall4,29634.90%8,00365.01%110.09%-3,707-30.11%12,310
Hancock92546.27%1,07453.73%-149-7.46%1,999
Haralson3,12958.85%2,18641.11%20.04%94317.74%5,317
Harris2,16669.74%94030.26%1,22639.48%3,106
Hart1,16627.00%3,14272.77%100.23%-1,976-45.77%4,318
Heard80743.18%1,06156.77%10.05%-254-13.59%1,869
Henry3,12546.58%3,58353.41%10.01%-458-6.83%6,709
Houston6,53260.53%4,25839.46%10.01%2,27421.07%10,791
Irwin2,01773.16%74026.84%1,27746.32%2,757
Jackson1,66429.62%3,95370.38%-2,289-40.76%5,617
Jasper1,07555.90%84844.10%22711.80%1,923
Jeff Davis1,87571.56%74528.44%1,13043.12%2,620
Jefferson2,95070.15%1,25329.80%20.05%1,69740.35%4,205
Jenkins1,50962.43%90837.57%60124.86%2,417
Johnson1,94073.99%68226.01%1,25847.98%2,622
Jones1,80556.67%1,38043.33%42513.34%3,185
Lamar1,57050.30%1,54849.60%30.10%220.70%3,121
Lanier71952.10%66147.90%584.20%1,380
Laurens5,45758.76%3,82841.22%20.02%1,62917.54%9,287
Lee1,04181.01%24418.99%79762.02%1,285
Liberty1,45839.73%2,21260.27%-754-20.54%3,670
Lincoln94372.76%35327.24%59045.52%1,296
Long24615.55%1,33684.45%-1,090-68.90%1,582
Lowndes6,81160.95%4,36339.04%10.01%2,44821.91%11,175
Lumpkin85541.81%1,18958.14%10.05%-334-16.33%2,045
Macon1,72361.56%1,07638.44%64723.12%2,799
Madison1,19033.70%2,34166.30%-1,151-32.60%3,531
Marion71966.27%36533.64%10.09%35432.63%1,085
McDuffie2,65770.27%1,12429.73%1,53340.54%3,781
McIntosh79539.99%1,19360.01%-398-20.02%1,988
Meriwether2,25048.14%2,42351.84%10.02%-173-3.70%4,674
Miller1,65885.82%27414.18%1,38471.64%1,932
Mitchell3,26573.17%1,19726.83%2,06846.34%4,462
Monroe1,66551.33%1,57848.64%10.03%872.69%3,244
Montgomery1,40961.61%87838.39%53123.22%2,287
Morgan1,48547.31%1,65452.69%-169-5.38%3,139
Murray1,06430.44%2,42669.41%50.14%-1,362-38.97%3,495
Muscogee21,02562.81%12,44637.18%30.01%8,57925.63%33,474
Newton2,67842.52%3,62057.48%-942-14.96%6,298
Oconee1,24153.63%1,07346.37%1687.26%2,314
Oglethorpe1,12656.58%86443.42%26213.16%1,990
Paulding1,91443.23%2,51356.77%-599-13.54%4,427
Peach1,97055.40%1,58544.57%10.03%38510.83%3,556
Pickens1,95550.32%1,93049.68%250.64%3,885
Pierce1,98166.86%98233.14%99933.72%2,963
Pike1,06452.94%94647.06%1185.88%2,010
Polk3,28241.86%4,55558.10%30.04%-1,273-16.24%7,840
Pulaski1,76864.86%95334.96%50.18%81529.90%2,726
Putnam1,19654.02%1,01845.98%1788.04%2,214
Quitman37762.11%23037.89%14724.22%607
Rabun55123.48%1,79676.52%-1,245-53.04%2,347
Randolph1,65663.18%96236.70%30.11%69426.48%2,621
Richmond21,48161.32%13,54538.67%30.01%7,93622.65%35,029
Rockdale1,50343.25%1,97256.75%-469-13.50%3,475
Schley57760.48%37739.52%20020.96%954
Screven2,26060.98%1,44639.02%81421.96%3,706
Seminole1,29475.19%42724.81%86750.38%1,721
Spalding4,76346.56%5,46653.44%-703-6.88%10,229
Stephens1,37128.24%3,48371.76%-2,112-43.52%4,854
Stewart1,03773.39%37326.40%30.21%66446.99%1,413
Sumter3,77468.61%1,72731.39%2,04737.22%5,501
Talbot67951.99%62748.01%523.98%1,306
Taliaferro33734.92%62865.08%-291-30.16%965
Tattnall3,26466.45%1,64833.55%1,61632.90%4,912
Taylor1,37255.55%1,09744.41%10.04%27511.14%2,470
Telfair1,91450.55%1,87249.45%421.10%3,786
Terrell1,92177.15%56922.85%1,35254.30%2,490
Thomas6,30665.94%3,25734.06%3,04931.88%9,563
Tift4,65067.04%2,28632.96%2,36434.08%6,936
Toombs3,54367.77%1,68532.23%1,85835.54%5,228
Towns1,14046.88%1,28953.00%30.12%-149-6.12%2,432
Treutlen72235.15%1,33164.80%10.05%-609-29.65%2,054
Troup5,27746.66%6,03253.34%-755-6.68%11,309
Turner1,67269.93%71930.07%95339.86%2,391
Twiggs1,17859.98%78640.02%39219.96%1,964
Union1,47340.83%2,13559.17%-662-18.34%3,608
Upson3,10348.61%3,27551.30%60.09%-172-2.69%6,384
Walker5,93952.09%5,45447.84%80.07%4854.25%11,401
Walton2,87454.99%2,35044.97%20.04%52410.02%5,226
Ware4,94848.81%5,18951.19%-241-2.38%10,137
Warren1,07073.59%38426.41%68647.18%1,454
Washington2,29655.63%1,83044.34%10.02%46611.29%4,127
Wayne3,61962.39%2,18237.61%1,43724.78%5,801
Webster45776.04%14423.96%31352.08%601
Wheeler84946.42%98053.58%-131-7.16%1,829
White84035.55%1,52064.33%30.13%-680-28.78%2,363
Whitfield4,54638.27%7,33061.70%40.03%-2,784-23.43%11,880
Wilcox1,79466.59%90033.41%89433.18%2,694
Wilkes1,65253.48%1,43746.52%2156.96%3,089
Wilkinson2,17269.28%96330.72%1,20938.56%3,135
Worth3,15778.55%86221.45%2,29557.10%4,019

Results by congressional district

Goldwater carried 7 of the 10 congressional districts, including six that elected Democrats.

DistrictGoldwaterJohnson
1st59.7%40.3%
2nd70.1%29.9%
3rd62.7%37.3%
4th51.7%48.3%
5th44.6%55.4%
6th54%46%
7th49.1%50.9%
8th59.7%40.3%
9th40.5%59.5%
10th55.3%44.7%

References

Works cited

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