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1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

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Field	Value
election_name	1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
country	Pennsylvania
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1960 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
previous_year	1960
next_election	1968 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
next_year	1968
election_date	November 3, 1964
image_size	x200px
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	29
popular_vote1	3,130,954
percentage1	64.92%
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	1,673,657
percentage2	34.70%
map_image	{{Switcher
map_caption
title	President
before_election	Lyndon B. Johnson
before_party	Democratic
after_election	Lyndon B. Johnson
after_party	Democratic

Main article: 1964 United States presidential election

| [[File:Pennsylvania Presidential Election Results 1964.svg|300px]] | County results | [[File:Results of the 1964 Presidential Election in Pennsylvania by Municipality.svg|300px]] | Municipality results Johnson Goldwater Tie The 1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 3, 1964, and was part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 29 representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, President Lyndon B. Johnson, over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson won Pennsylvania by a margin of 30.22%. Apart from William Howard Taft in 1912 (when third-party candidates obtained substantial minorities of the vote), Goldwater's 34.7% of the vote is easily the worst showing for a Republican in the state since the party was founded. Even relative to Johnson's popular vote landslide, Pennsylvania came out as 7.64% more Democratic than the nation at-large; the only occasion under the current two-party system that the state has been more anomalously Democratic than this was in Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide.

During the 1960s the Republican Party was turning its attention from the declining rural Yankee counties to the growing and traditionally Democratic Catholic vote, along with the conservative Sun Belt whose growth was driven by lower taxes, warm weather, and air conditioning. This growth meant that activist Republicans centered in the Sun Belt had become much more conservative than the majority of members in historic Northeastern GOP strongholds.

The consequence of this was that a bitterly divided Republican Party was able to nominate the staunchly conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who ran with the equally conservative Republican National Committee chair, Congressman William E. Miller of New York, for president in 1964. Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist or at least an inexperienced nominee prone to gaffes; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as liable to provoke a nuclear war. Goldwater wrote Pennsylvania off from the very beginning of his campaign. Pennsylvania Republicans had generally preferred moderate Governor William Scranton for the nomination, who was unsuccessfully encouraged to run by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Many Pennsylvania Republicans, such as Representative James G. Fulton, refused to endorse Goldwater.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	3,130,954	64.92%	29
Republican	Barry Goldwater	1,673,657	34.70%	0
Militant Workers	Clifton DeBerry	10,456	0.22%	0
Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	5,092	0.11%	0
Write-ins	Write-ins	2,531	0.05%	0
Totals	4,822,690	100.00%	29
Voter turnout (voting age/registered)	68%/84%

Results by county

County	Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic	Barry Goldwater
Republican	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	3,130,954	64.92%	1,673,657	34.70%	18,079	0.37%	1,457,297	30.22%	4,822,690
	Adams		11,148		56.13%		8,617		43.39%		95		0.48%		2,531		12.74%		19,860
	Allegheny		475,207		66.03%		241,707		33.58%		2,811		0.39%		233,500		32.45%		719,725
	Armstrong		21,098		66.37%		10,618		33.40%		74		0.23%		10,480		32.97%		31,790
	Beaver		60,492		72.02%		23,174		27.59%		327		0.39%		37,318		44.43%		83,993
	Bedford		9,165		53.45%		7,968		46.47%		14		0.08%		1,197		6.98%		17,147
	Berks		73,444		66.38%		36,726		33.19%		476		0.43%		36,718		33.19%		110,646
	Blair		26,157		51.76%		24,301		48.09%		73		0.14%		1,856		3.67%		50,531
	Bradford		10,714		50.63%		10,434		49.31%		14		0.07%		280		1.32%		21,162
	Bucks		78,287		60.60%		50,243		38.89%		646		0.50%		28,044		21.71%		129,176
	Butler		27,267		60.97%		17,360		38.82%		95		0.21%		9,907		22.15%		44,722
	Cambria		55,183		67.63%		26,281		32.21%		134		0.16%		28,902		35.42%		81,598
	Cameron		1,904		57.96%		1,376		41.89%		5		0.15%		528		16.07%		3,285
	Carbon		15,416		67.49%		7,309		32.00%		116		0.51%		8,107		35.49%		22,841
	Centre		16,556		63.20%		9,481		36.19%		158		0.60%		7,075		27.01%		26,195
	Chester		47,940		54.10%		40,280		45.46%		390		0.44%		7,660		8.64%		88,610
	Clarion		9,235		60.01%		6,143		39.92%		11		0.07%		3,092		20.09%		15,389
	Clearfield		19,211		62.67%		11,338		36.99%		103		0.34%		7,873		25.68%		30,652
	Clinton		10,038		69.84%		4,298		29.91%		36		0.25%		5,740		39.93%		14,372
	Columbia		13,885		60.63%		8,982		39.22%		36		0.16%		4,903		21.41%		22,903
	Crawford		18,212		62.82%		10,664		36.78%		115		0.40%		7,548		26.04%		28,991
	Cumberland		26,633		52.71%		23,685		46.88%		207		0.41%		2,948		5.83%		50,525
	Dauphin		46,119		51.57%		42,718		47.77%		594		0.66%		3,401		3.80%		89,431
	Delaware		147,189		56.81%		111,189		42.91%		717		0.28%		36,000		13.90%		259,095
	Elk		10,455		70.51%		4,354		29.36%		19		0.13%		6,101		41.15%		14,828
	Erie		72,944		69.55%		31,393		29.93%		549		0.52%		41,551		39.62%		104,886
	Fayette		45,155		73.35%		16,127		26.20%		276		0.45%		29,028		47.15%		61,558
	Forest		1,249		57.99%		900		41.78%		5		0.23%		349		16.21%		2,154
	Franklin		19,332		58.68%		13,525		41.06%		85		0.26%		5,807		17.62%		32,942
	Fulton		2,180		55.37%		1,747		44.37%		10		0.25%		433		11.00%		3,937
	Greene		11,412		74.46%		3,896		25.42%		19		0.12%		7,516		49.04%		15,327
	Huntingdon		7,435		52.96%		6,571		46.81%		33		0.24%		864		6.15%		14,039
	Indiana		17,568		59.92%		11,706		39.92%		46		0.16%		5,862		20.00%		29,320
	Jefferson		10,851		56.34%		8,373		43.47%		37		0.19%		2,478		12.87%		19,261
	Juniata		4,138		57.19%		3,087		42.67%		10		0.14%		1,051		14.52%		7,235
	Lackawanna		88,131		73.73%		31,272		26.16%		137		0.11%		56,859		47.57%		119,540
	Lancaster		53,041		50.27%		52,243		49.52%		224		0.21%		798		0.75%		105,508
	Lawrence		29,092		64.35%		15,998		35.39%		117		0.26%		13,094		28.96%		45,207
	Lebanon		15,882		46.93%		17,891		52.86%		72		0.21%		−2,009		−5.93%		33,845
	Lehigh		60,377		64.86%		32,245		34.64%		471		0.51%		28,132		30.22%		93,093
	Luzerne		106,397		69.97%		43,895		28.86%		1,779		1.17%		62,502		41.11%		152,071
	Lycoming		25,879		57.58%		19,011		42.30%		55		0.12%		6,868		15.28%		44,945
	McKean		10,950		57.61%		7,948		41.82%		109		0.57%		3,002		15.79%		19,007
	Mercer		32,199		63.68%		18,153		35.90%		211		0.42%		14,046		27.78%		50,563
	Mifflin		8,811		59.31%		6,006		40.43%		39		0.26%		2,805		18.88%		14,856
	Monroe		10,622		62.41%		6,281		36.91%		116		0.68%		4,341		25.50%		17,019
	Montgomery		135,657		56.74%		102,714		42.96%		704		0.29%		32,943		13.78%		239,075
	Montour		3,683		59.27%		2,527		40.67%		4		0.06%		1,156		18.60%		6,214
	Northampton		58,818		73.08%		21,048		26.15%		619		0.77%		37,770		46.93%		80,485
	Northumberland		28,082		62.07%		17,046		37.68%		116		0.26%		11,036		24.39%		45,244
	Perry		6,054		52.86%		5,364		46.84%		34		0.30%		690		6.02%		11,452
	Philadelphia		670,645		73.42%		239,733		26.24%		3,094		0.34%		430,912		47.18%		913,472
	Pike		2,753		50.74%		2,651		48.86%		22		0.41%		102		1.88%		5,426
	Potter		3,652		52.86%		3,232		46.78%		25		0.36%		420		6.08%		6,909
	Schuylkill		50,560		65.63%		26,386		34.25%		96		0.12%		24,174		31.38%		77,042
	Snyder		4,199		44.59%		5,195		55.17%		22		0.23%		−996		−10.58%		9,416
	Somerset		17,934		54.65%		14,817		45.15%		63		0.19%		3,117		9.50%		32,814
	Sullivan		1,690		55.63%		1,344		44.24%		4		0.13%		346		11.39%		3,038
	Susquehanna		7,838		54.37%		6,567		45.55%		12		0.08%		1,271		8.82%		14,417
	Tioga		7,415		51.16%		7,064		48.73%		16		0.11%		351		2.43%		14,495
	Union		4,262		46.25%		4,944		53.65%		10		0.11%		−682		−7.40%		9,216
	Venango		13,065		56.75%		9,873		42.89%		84		0.36%		3,192		13.86%		23,022
	Warren		10,598		63.62%		5,965		35.81%		94		0.56%		4,633		27.81%		16,657
	Washington		63,482		72.34%		24,127		27.49%		147		0.17%		39,355		44.85%		87,756
	Wayne		5,781		46.89%		6,512		52.82%		35		0.28%		−731		−5.93%		12,328
	Westmoreland		107,131		71.70%		41,493		27.77%		792		0.53%		65,638		43.93%		149,416
	Wyoming		4,268		52.41%		3,864		47.45%		12		0.15%		404		4.96%		8,144
	York		58,787		63.30%		33,677		36.26%		408		0.44%		25,110		27.04%		92,872

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Armstrong
Bedford
Berks
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Butler
Cameron
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
Forest
Franklin
Fulton
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata
Lancaster
Lehigh
Lycoming
McKean
Mercer
Mifflin
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northumberland
Perry
Pike
Potter
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Venango
Warren
Wyoming
York}}

Analysis

Johnson won all but four counties in Pennsylvania: the central Pennsylvania counties of Snyder and Union, which have not voted Democratic since the Civil War; northeastern Wayne County, which has never voted Democratic since Grover Cleveland won it in 1892; and Lebanon County, which has only once voted Democratic since 1856 (when Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly won it in his 1936 landslide). This was the last presidential election in which Philadelphia was not the most Democratic county in Pennsylvania. This is also the only occasion since 1856 when Somerset, Lancaster, and Huntingdon counties have not voted for the Republican presidential candidate, and marked the first time since that election when suburban Delaware County had not voted Republican.

Six other counties including Butler, Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Cameron and McKean cast their solitary vote for a Democratic presidential candidate since at least the Civil War in this election. In addition, much of the Susquehanna Valley and Appalachia (comprising York County, Cumberland County, Franklin County, Adams County, Blair County, Lycoming County, Northumberland County, Bedford County, Butler County, Clarion County, Crawford County, Fulton County, Pike County, Venango County, Mifflin County, Perry County, Jefferson County, Susquehanna County, Wyoming County, Juniata County, Montour County, and Sullivan County) has never voted for a Democratic candidate since.

This was the last occasion until 2008 that the Democrats won Dauphin County, Berks County, Monroe County, or Chester County.

References

"Pennsylvania Voting Results and Participants".
Phillips, Kevin; ''The Emerging Republican Majority''; pp. 55–60, {{ISBN. 978-0-691-16324-6.
Nexon, David; 'Asymmetry in the Political System: Occasional Activists in the Republican and Democratic Parties, 1956-1964', ''The American Political Science Review'', vol. 65, No. 3 (September 1971), pp. 716–730.
Donaldson, Gary; ''Liberalism's Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964''; p. 190, {{ISBN. 1510702369.
Edwards, Lee and [[Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly, Phyllis]]; ''Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution''; pp. 286–290, {{ISBN. 162157458X.
Kelley, Stanley junior; 'The Goldwater Strategy'; ''[[The Princeton Review]]''; pp. 8–11.
Donaldson; ''Liberalism's Last Hurrah'', chapter 3.
Donaldson; ''Liberalism's Last Hurrah'', p. 180.
Tim Murphy. "1964 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". David Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections.
Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016.
Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); ''America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964''; p. 381, {{ISBN. 0405077114.
Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 287–290, {{ISBN. 0786422173.
Evie Stone. (November 13, 2008). "372 Counties Flipped In '08". NPR.

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