1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1964
Turnout	76.33%
Johnson 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%	Goldwater 50-60%
President before election; Lyndon B. Johnson; Democratic	Elected President ; Lyndon B. Johnson; Democratic

The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, in Minnesota as part of the 1964 United States presidential election.

The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had assumed the presidency less than a year earlier following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, won the state over U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona by a margin of 431,493 votes, or 27.76 percent. Johnson went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 22.58 percent of the popular vote. Goldwater carried only six states, including his home state of Arizona, together with the five southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

In the 1964 election, President Johnson carried Minnesota — which tended to favor Republicans prior to the 1974 Watergate Scandal — by a margin of victory that hadn’t been seen in a presidential election in the state since Franklin D. Roosevelt carried the state by a margin of 30.83 percent over Alf Landon in 1936. This margin of victory was aided by the fact that Hubert Humphrey, the state's incumbent US Senator, was on the Democratic ticket for vice president. Nationally, no candidate since James Monroe’s re-election in 1820 had won as great a percentage of the popular vote as did Johnson in 1964, nor has any candidate since 1964.

As of the 2016 presidential election^[update], this is the last election in which Brown County, Redwood County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[2]

Results

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1964^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	991,117	63.76%	10
	Republican	Barry Goldwater	559,624	36.00%	0
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	2,544	0.16%	0
	Socialist Workers	Clifton DeBerry	1,177	0.08%	0
Totals			1,554,462	100.00%	10
Voter turnout			76%		—

References

^ "Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State". www.sos.state.mn.us. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
^ "1964 Presidential Election Results, 1964". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2016-10-03.

[1] "Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State". www.sos.state.mn.us. Retrieved 2017-07-22.

[how-2] Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

[3] "1964 Presidential Election Results, 1964". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2016-10-03.

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