1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Minnesota was won by the DFL 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%. Johnson went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 22.58% 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 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% over Alf Landon in 1936. This margin of victory was aided by the fact that Hubert Humphrey, the state's incumbent U.S. Senator, was on the Democratic ticket for vice president.
To date Johnson's performance is the best ever for a Democrat in Minnesota, in fact, no presidential candidate has since obtained more than 55% of the state's vote in a presidential election. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Brown County, Redwood County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Olmsted County would not vote Democratic again until 2008.[2]
Results
[edit]| 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic-Farmer-Labor | Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) | 991,117 | 63.76% | 10 | |
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 559,624 | 36.00% | 0 | |
| Industrial Government | 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% | — | |||
Results by county
[edit]| County | Lyndon B. Johnson DFL[4] |
Barry Goldwater Republican |
Eric Hass[5] Industrial Government |
Clifton DeBerry[5] Socialist Workers |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aitkin | 3,874 | 65.77% | 2,000 | 33.96% | 9 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.12% | 1,874 | 31.81% | 5,890 |
| Anoka | 31,714 | 70.47% | 13,201 | 29.33% | 47 | 0.10% | 43 | 0.10% | 18,513 | 41.14% | 45,005 |
| Becker | 6,453 | 63.14% | 3,751 | 36.70% | 6 | 0.06% | 10 | 0.10% | 2,702 | 26.44% | 10,220 |
| Beltrami | 5,967 | 65.10% | 3,184 | 34.74% | 9 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.07% | 2,783 | 30.36% | 9,166 |
| Benton | 4,679 | 62.22% | 2,818 | 37.47% | 20 | 0.27% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,861 | 24.75% | 7,520 |
| Big Stone | 2,831 | 67.86% | 1,331 | 31.90% | 9 | 0.22% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,500 | 35.96% | 4,172 |
| Blue Earth | 10,687 | 56.85% | 8,009 | 42.61% | 96 | 0.51% | 5 | 0.03% | 2,678 | 14.24% | 18,797 |
| Brown | 6,069 | 50.84% | 5,851 | 49.02% | 10 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.06% | 218 | 1.82% | 11,937 |
| Carlton | 9,552 | 77.29% | 2,780 | 22.49% | 13 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.11% | 6,772 | 54.80% | 12,359 |
| Carver | 5,123 | 48.52% | 5,424 | 51.37% | 4 | 0.04% | 7 | 0.07% | -301 | -2.85% | 10,558 |
| Cass | 4,635 | 59.78% | 3,110 | 40.11% | 7 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,525 | 19.67% | 7,754 |
| Chippewa | 4,550 | 61.78% | 2,806 | 38.10% | 6 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,744 | 23.68% | 7,365 |
| Chisago | 4,347 | 63.10% | 2,525 | 36.65% | 9 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,822 | 26.45% | 6,889 |
| Clay | 10,161 | 62.39% | 6,085 | 37.37% | 35 | 0.21% | 4 | 0.02% | 4,076 | 25.02% | 16,285 |
| Clearwater | 2,596 | 69.43% | 1,137 | 30.41% | 2 | 0.05% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,459 | 39.02% | 3,739 |
| Cook | 976 | 56.03% | 764 | 43.86% | 2 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 212 | 12.17% | 1,742 |
| Cottonwood | 4,090 | 54.33% | 3,423 | 45.47% | 9 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.08% | 667 | 8.86% | 7,528 |
| Crow Wing | 9,197 | 64.10% | 5,131 | 35.76% | 9 | 0.06% | 12 | 0.08% | 4,066 | 28.34% | 14,349 |
| Dakota | 28,391 | 67.07% | 13,856 | 32.73% | 64 | 0.15% | 17 | 0.04% | 14,535 | 34.34% | 42,328 |
| Dodge | 3,138 | 55.84% | 2,474 | 44.02% | 6 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.04% | 664 | 11.82% | 5,620 |
| Douglas | 6,040 | 59.36% | 4,122 | 40.51% | 8 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.05% | 1,918 | 18.85% | 10,175 |
| Faribault | 5,946 | 55.18% | 4,817 | 44.71% | 8 | 0.07% | 4 | 0.04% | 1,129 | 10.47% | 10,775 |
| Fillmore | 5,813 | 54.58% | 4,824 | 45.29% | 11 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.03% | 989 | 9.29% | 10,651 |
| Freeborn | 10,554 | 63.16% | 6,136 | 36.72% | 16 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.02% | 4,418 | 26.44% | 16,709 |
| Goodhue | 9,035 | 57.96% | 6,539 | 41.95% | 9 | 0.06% | 6 | 0.04% | 2,496 | 16.01% | 15,589 |
| Grant | 2,631 | 60.26% | 1,734 | 39.72% | 1 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 897 | 20.54% | 4,366 |
| Hennepin | 241,020 | 60.75% | 154,736 | 39.00% | 623 | 0.16% | 348 | 0.09% | 86,284 | 21.75% | 396,727 |
| Houston | 3,885 | 53.03% | 3,433 | 46.86% | 7 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 452 | 6.17% | 7,326 |
| Hubbard | 2,553 | 52.72% | 2,283 | 47.14% | 6 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 270 | 5.58% | 4,843 |
| Isanti | 4,026 | 66.90% | 1,982 | 32.93% | 3 | 0.05% | 7 | 0.12% | 2,044 | 33.97% | 6,018 |
| Itasca | 12,054 | 74.27% | 4,137 | 25.49% | 19 | 0.12% | 21 | 0.13% | 7,917 | 48.78% | 16,231 |
| Jackson | 4,576 | 65.18% | 2,441 | 34.77% | 4 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,135 | 30.41% | 7,021 |
| Kanabec | 2,666 | 66.25% | 1,348 | 33.50% | 5 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,318 | 32.75% | 4,024 |
| Kandiyohi | 9,108 | 69.23% | 4,011 | 30.49% | 25 | 0.19% | 12 | 0.09% | 5,097 | 38.74% | 13,156 |
| Kittson | 2,790 | 70.72% | 1,153 | 29.23% | 2 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,637 | 41.49% | 3,945 |
| Koochiching | 5,878 | 78.47% | 1,602 | 21.39% | 6 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.07% | 4,276 | 57.08% | 7,491 |
| Lac qui Parle | 3,934 | 63.66% | 2,236 | 36.18% | 5 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.08% | 1,698 | 27.48% | 6,180 |
| Lake | 4,704 | 79.39% | 1,205 | 20.34% | 8 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.14% | 3,499 | 59.05% | 5,925 |
| Lake of the Woods | 1,266 | 71.73% | 489 | 27.71% | 5 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.28% | 777 | 44.02% | 1,765 |
| Le Sueur | 6,117 | 65.60% | 3,191 | 34.22% | 12 | 0.13% | 5 | 0.05% | 2,926 | 31.38% | 9,325 |
| Lincoln | 3,024 | 68.29% | 1,393 | 31.46% | 2 | 0.05% | 9 | 0.20% | 1,631 | 36.83% | 4,428 |
| Lyon | 6,649 | 67.69% | 3,165 | 32.22% | 7 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,484 | 35.47% | 9,822 |
| Mahnomen | 1,967 | 75.11% | 648 | 24.74% | 3 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,319 | 50.37% | 2,619 |
| Marshall | 4,594 | 70.79% | 1,893 | 29.17% | 2 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,701 | 41.62% | 6,490 |
| Martin | 5,575 | 45.98% | 6,529 | 53.84% | 14 | 0.12% | 8 | 0.07% | -954 | -7.86% | 12,126 |
| McLeod | 5,755 | 50.86% | 5,545 | 49.00% | 9 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.06% | 210 | 1.86% | 11,316 |
| Meeker | 5,270 | 62.90% | 3,099 | 36.99% | 7 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,171 | 25.91% | 8,378 |
| Mille Lacs | 4,369 | 63.58% | 2,474 | 36.00% | 15 | 0.22% | 14 | 0.20% | 1,895 | 27.58% | 6,872 |
| Morrison | 7,492 | 67.91% | 3,515 | 31.86% | 16 | 0.15% | 9 | 0.08% | 3,977 | 36.05% | 11,032 |
| Mower | 13,573 | 67.39% | 6,510 | 32.32% | 43 | 0.21% | 14 | 0.07% | 7,063 | 35.07% | 20,140 |
| Murray | 3,822 | 62.13% | 2,325 | 37.79% | 5 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,497 | 24.34% | 6,152 |
| Nicollet | 5,121 | 58.62% | 3,605 | 41.27% | 4 | 0.05% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,516 | 17.35% | 8,736 |
| Nobles | 6,431 | 64.57% | 3,517 | 35.31% | 9 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.03% | 2,914 | 29.26% | 9,960 |
| Norman | 3,631 | 68.50% | 1,662 | 31.35% | 5 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,969 | 37.15% | 5,301 |
| Olmsted | 16,195 | 55.94% | 12,699 | 43.87% | 47 | 0.16% | 9 | 0.03% | 3,496 | 12.07% | 28,950 |
| Otter Tail | 9,997 | 48.61% | 10,542 | 51.26% | 17 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.04% | -545 | -2.65% | 20,565 |
| Pennington | 3,894 | 70.37% | 1,630 | 29.45% | 3 | 0.05% | 7 | 0.13% | 2,264 | 40.92% | 5,534 |
| Pine | 5,123 | 69.04% | 2,279 | 30.71% | 10 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.11% | 2,844 | 38.33% | 7,420 |
| Pipestone | 3,365 | 57.51% | 2,481 | 42.40% | 3 | 0.05% | 2 | 0.03% | 884 | 15.11% | 5,851 |
| Polk | 11,052 | 68.60% | 5,039 | 31.27% | 11 | 0.07% | 9 | 0.06% | 6,013 | 37.33% | 16,111 |
| Pope | 3,549 | 61.57% | 2,213 | 38.39% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,336 | 23.18% | 5,764 |
| Ramsey | 133,948 | 69.91% | 56,898 | 29.70% | 579 | 0.30% | 167 | 0.09% | 77,050 | 40.21% | 191,592 |
| Red Lake | 1,861 | 75.96% | 573 | 23.39% | 9 | 0.37% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,288 | 52.57% | 2,450 |
| Redwood | 4,722 | 50.90% | 4,546 | 49.00% | 5 | 0.05% | 4 | 0.04% | 176 | 1.90% | 9,277 |
| Renville | 6,072 | 58.18% | 4,340 | 41.58% | 14 | 0.13% | 11 | 0.11% | 1,732 | 16.60% | 10,437 |
| Rice | 9,299 | 62.65% | 5,518 | 37.18% | 18 | 0.12% | 8 | 0.05% | 3,781 | 25.47% | 14,843 |
| Rock | 2,896 | 54.78% | 2,389 | 45.19% | 2 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 507 | 9.59% | 5,287 |
| Roseau | 3,636 | 68.69% | 1,651 | 31.19% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,985 | 37.50% | 5,293 |
| St. Louis | 79,529 | 75.61% | 25,246 | 24.00% | 275 | 0.26% | 133 | 0.13% | 54,283 | 51.61% | 105,183 |
| Scott | 7,248 | 68.57% | 3,311 | 31.32% | 9 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.02% | 3,937 | 37.25% | 10,570 |
| Sherburne | 3,787 | 63.75% | 2,132 | 35.89% | 17 | 0.29% | 4 | 0.07% | 1,655 | 27.86% | 5,940 |
| Sibley | 3,577 | 48.10% | 3,854 | 51.83% | 3 | 0.04% | 2 | 0.03% | -277 | -3.73% | 7,436 |
| Stearns | 19,063 | 59.26% | 13,009 | 40.44% | 58 | 0.18% | 36 | 0.11% | 6,054 | 18.82% | 32,166 |
| Steele | 6,022 | 55.05% | 4,882 | 44.63% | 27 | 0.25% | 8 | 0.07% | 1,140 | 10.42% | 10,939 |
| Stevens | 2,910 | 56.65% | 2,220 | 43.22% | 6 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 690 | 13.43% | 5,137 |
| Swift | 4,380 | 67.14% | 2,132 | 32.68% | 6 | 0.09% | 6 | 0.09% | 2,248 | 34.46% | 6,524 |
| Todd | 5,673 | 58.47% | 4,006 | 41.29% | 17 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.06% | 1,667 | 17.18% | 9,702 |
| Traverse | 2,247 | 67.64% | 1,073 | 32.30% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,174 | 35.34% | 3,322 |
| Wabasha | 4,367 | 58.20% | 3,133 | 41.75% | 3 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,234 | 16.45% | 7,504 |
| Wadena | 2,908 | 54.52% | 2,418 | 45.33% | 7 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.02% | 490 | 9.19% | 5,334 |
| Waseca | 3,633 | 50.34% | 3,570 | 49.47% | 10 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.06% | 63 | 0.87% | 7,217 |
| Washington | 18,108 | 67.01% | 8,850 | 32.75% | 43 | 0.16% | 21 | 0.08% | 9,258 | 34.26% | 27,022 |
| Watonwan | 3,615 | 56.09% | 2,823 | 43.80% | 5 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.03% | 792 | 12.29% | 6,445 |
| Wilkin | 2,751 | 62.65% | 1,636 | 37.26% | 1 | 0.02% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,115 | 25.39% | 4,391 |
| Winona | 11,397 | 64.14% | 6,345 | 35.71% | 21 | 0.12% | 7 | 0.04% | 5,052 | 28.43% | 17,770 |
| Wright | 8,687 | 61.24% | 5,476 | 38.60% | 14 | 0.10% | 8 | 0.06% | 3,211 | 22.64% | 14,185 |
| Yellow Medicine | 4,707 | 63.06% | 2,751 | 36.86% | 5 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,956 | 26.20% | 7,464 |
| Totals | 991,117 | 63.76% | 559,624 | 36.00% | 2,544 | 0.16% | 1,177 | 0.08% | 431,493 | 27.76% | 1,554,462 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]- Aitkin
- Blue Earth
- Brown
- Cass
- Chippewa
- Clay
- Chisago
- Crow Wing
- Cook
- Cottonwood
- Dodge
- Douglas
- Faribault
- Fillmore
- Freeborn
- Goodhue
- Hennepin
- Houston
- Hubbard
- Isanti
- Kandiyohi
- Kanabec
- McLeod
- Meeker
- Mille Lacs
- Mower
- Murray
- Micollet
- Nobles
- Olmsted
- Pipestone
- Pope
- Redwood
- Renville
- Rice
- Rock
- Sherburne
- Steele
- Stevens
- Todd
- Wabasha
- Wadena
- Waseca
- Watonwan
- Wilkin
- Winona
- Yellow Medicine
- Wright
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State". www.sos.state.mn.us. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ 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 – Minnesota". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
- ^ "Minnesota Legislative Manual 1965-1966" (PDF). Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. 1965. pp. 411–413. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Our Campaigns; MN US Presidential Election Race, November 03, 1964
