1964 United States presidential election in Kentucky
The 1964 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 9 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Kentucky
Kentucky was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 64.01% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 35.65% of the popular vote.


1964 United States presidential election in Kentucky
This is the solitary occasion since the Civil War when the Unionist strongholds of Whitley County and Knox County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate: Kenton, Boone, Campbell, Oldham, Jessamine, Wayne, Estill, Garrard, Green, and Lee. This is also the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state by double digits.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Louisiana was won by Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 56.81% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 43.19% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Louisiana voted for a different candidate than neighboring Arkansas, and the last election Lafayette Parish voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine
The 1964 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all fifty states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Background
Ever since the Republican Party formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the territories, Maine and nearby Vermont had been rock-ribbed Republican, except during the split of 1912 when the Pine Tree State went to Woodrow Wilson with less than forty percent of the vote. As recently as 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower had won over seventy percent of the vote in the state for the GOP.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Background
However, at the same time the GOP 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 air conditioning. This growth meant that activist Republicans centred in the traditionally Democratic, but by the 1960s, middle-class Sun Belt had become much more conservative than the majority of members in the historic Northeastern GOP stronghold.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Background
The consequence of this was that a bitterly divided Grand Old 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. The staunch conservative Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Background
In contrast to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Michigan, Goldwater did not write upper New England off from the beginning of his presidential campaign before Kennedy’s assassination. However, Goldwater’s self-avowed extremism was such that he was the first Republican disendorsed by many newspapers in the region since the party was founded. Polls never gave any doubt that Goldwater would lose Maine, despite considerable September campaigning by running mate Miller.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Vote
Johnson carried Maine by a wide margin of 37.66%, making him the first Democratic candidate since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry the state, and the first since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win a majority (Wilson won the state in 1912 with only a plurality of 39.43%). Johnson was also the first Democrat to sweep all of Maine’s counties. This is also the best Democratic performance in a presidential election in Maine to date.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Vote
He was the first Democrat to carry Somerset County since Martin Van Buren in 1836, the first since Pierce to carry the counties of Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot and Piscataquis and the first since Winfield S. Hancock in 1880 to carry Aroostook County. Populous Cumberland County, along with Lincoln County, had last voted Democratic for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, whilst the counties of Hancock, Knox and Waldo had last supported a Democrat when giving Wilson a plurality in 1916.


1964 United States presidential election in Maine, Vote
This would prove the last occasion Waldo County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until 1996, and last when Hancock, Knox and Lincoln Counties would support a Democratic Presidential nominee until Bill Clinton in 1992.


1964 United States presidential election in Maryland
The 1964 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Maryland
Maryland was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 65.47% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 34.53% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Harford County, Carroll County, Washington County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Queen Anne's County and Caroline County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate. Anne Arundel County would not vote Democratic again until 2016, while Frederick and Talbot counties  would not do so until 2020. Despite the fact Maryland would eventually go on to be a very safe Democratic state, this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won more counties in Maryland than the Republican candidate.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
The 1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Johnson ran with Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, while Goldwater’s running mate was Congressman William E. Miller of New York.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Johnson carried Massachusetts in a landslide, taking 76.19% of the vote to Goldwater’s 23.44%, a Democratic victory margin of 52.74%. This made it the third most Democratic state in the nation, after Rhode Island and Hawaii.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Even in the midst of a massive nationwide Democratic landslide, Massachusetts still weighed in for this election as 30% more Democratic than the national average.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, but had voted Republican as recently as 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower won the state by 19 points. In 1960, Massachusetts native John F. Kennedy had carried the state with 60.22% of the vote, which up to that point had been the strongest Democratic victory in Massachusetts ever, but this record was quickly overtaken by Lyndon Johnson’s landslide in 1964, which remains the strongest Democratic showing in Massachusetts ever.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
The staunch conservative Barry Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war. Thus Goldwater performed especially weakly in liberal northeastern states like Massachusetts, and for the first time in history, a Democratic presidential candidate swept every Northeastern state in 1964. Not only did Johnson win every Northeastern state, but he won all of them with landslides of over 60% of the vote, including Massachusetts, which weighed in as the third most Democratic state in the nation.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
While Kennedy had won 60% in Massachusetts in 1960 mostly by sweeping the ethnic Catholic vote, in 1964, this traditional Democratic coalition was joined by mass defections of moderate Yankee Republicans who had voted for Eisenhower and Nixon but could not support the extremist Goldwater. Consequently, the incumbent Johnson was able to take more than three-quarters of the vote in liberal Massachusetts, and indeed Goldwater wrote this state and neighbouring Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan off from the beginning of his presidential campaign before Kennedy’s assassination.


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Johnson swept every county in Massachusetts, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate had ever done so. This feat would not be repeated again until 1992 (Democrats have subsequently swept every county in Massachusetts in every modern election since 1992). Johnson was the first Democrat to ever win Barnstable County, Dukes County, Franklin County or Plymouth County, and the first to carry Nantucket County since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In Suffolk County, home to the state’s capital and largest city, Boston, Johnson took an epic 86.2% of the vote. It would not be until 2020 that Suffolk County would vote for a certain presidential candidate with greater than 80% of the popular vote again (in that case, Joe Biden).


1964 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
This also remains the only election in which a Democratic presidential nominee has broken 70% of the vote in Massachusetts. Johnson’s 76.19% remains the highest vote share any presidential candidate of either party has ever received in the state, and his 52.74% margin of victory is the widest margin by which any presidential candidate of either party has ever carried the state.


1964 United States presidential election in Michigan
The 1964 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Michigan
Michigan was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 66.70% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 33.10% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Livingston County, Allegan County, Antrim County, Grand Traverse County, Midland County, Ionia County, St. Joseph County, Barry County, Newaygo County, Hillsdale County, Emmet County, and Otsego County voted for the Democratic candidate. This is also the best Democratic performance in a presidential election in Michigan to date.


1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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.


1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Minnesota was won by 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%. 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.


1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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% 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.


1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Brown County, Redwood County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and Olmsted County would not vote Democratic again until 2008.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi
The Republican Party nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, won Mississippi with a lopsided 74.28% margin of victory against the Democratic Party nominee, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, making the state a staggering 97% more Republican than the national average. Goldwater was the first Republican to carry the Magnolia State since Reconstruction.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Background
In a state where fewer than ten percent of blacks were registered voters, and an almost entirely white electorate had lost none of its hostility towards the Civil Rights Movement, President Johnson's policies, not only on civil rights but also his "War on Poverty", were anathema.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Background
Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr., though considered relatively liberal for such reforms as repealing statewide Prohibition, told Mississippians not to obey the Civil Rights Act when it became law in the middle of 1964, while it was clear from the time Johnson planned his legislation that Mississippi white Democrats resented federal intervention with the state's traditional racial policy.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Background
Neither Governor Johnson nor any other major state or federal politician offered President Johnson any support in his statewide campaign, which was left to the inexperienced Greenville lawyer Douglas Wynn. Although Governor Johnson and four of five Congressmen were silent about supporting Goldwater, John Bell Williams did support the Republican and left President Johnson's inexperienced and makeshift campaign team with no hope against the state's electorate. Over ninety percent of Mississippi's electorate viewed President Johnson as having done a bad job and 96.4 percent opposed the Civil Rights Act vis-à-vis only 54 percent in all antebellum slave states plus Oklahoma.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Background
87 percent of Mississippi voters, vis-à-vis 48 percent in the South as a whole, believed that President Johnson was failing at countering domestic Communism. This concern with domestic Communism reflected the belief, widespread among Mississippi whites for over three decades, that civil rights activists were funded by Communist parties, whether domestic or Soviet.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Polls
Opinion polls in July amongst registered Mississippi voters giving their opinions of Johnson and Goldwater, and by professional pollsters in August, both showed clearly that Johnson possessed no chance of keeping Mississippi in the Democratic column where it had solidly been since 1876.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Polls
This despite the fact that George Wallace – who would win the state as a third-party candidate in the following election – decided not to run in July, and plans to place unpledged Democratic electors on the ballot as had been done for the preceding two elections (and who would have been expected to support Wallace this time) were abandoned.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Polls
In July, polling suggested Goldwater would receive ninety percent of Mississippi's vote, but this fell to seventy in August and to between sixty and sixty-five in October due to fears he would abolish the Rural Electrification Administration that had played an important role in developing Mississippi. By the weekend before election day, University of California political scientist Peter H. Odegard believed Goldwater would win only Alabama and Mississippi and had doubts even with those two.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Vote
When the national Democratic Party previously took positions on civil rights viewed too radical, Mississippi's white population's extreme traditional hostility to the Republican Party caused the Magnolia State to elect "states' rights" Democrats and unpledged Democratic electors in 1948 and 1960 respectively. Despite their hostility to the "Republican" label in the past, Goldwater's support for "constitutional government and local self-rule" meant that the absence from the ballot of such third parties mattered little.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Vote
The Arizona Senator had been one of only six Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act, and Goldwater's staunchly conservative policies, which alienated the traditional Northeastern Republican heartland to the point of completely abandoning the GOP, were adequate for the small Mississippi electorate to almost unanimously support him over the "big government" Johnson. In addition to his unacceptable record on racial issues, Mississippi whites also felt that Johnson was doing a very bad job of keeping taxes and spending low.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Vote
Amidst a landslide national defeat for Goldwater, he nonetheless defeated President Johnson by a margin of 74.28%, comparable to what had been predicted in the earliest polls and much greater than predicted immediately before the election. Over-representation of urban areas in polling was blamed for this discrepancy. Goldwater's victory in Mississippi made him only the second Republican presidential nominee to carry the state as well as the first one since Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. His 87.14% in the popular vote made it his strongest state in the 1964 election.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Vote
Goldwater won all of Mississippi's eighty-two counties, the most recent candidate to do so as of the 2020 presidential election, and won fifty-one with over ninety percent of the vote. Even in the poor white northeastern hills where residual support for Johnson remained based on fear of Goldwater dismantling public works, Goldwater exceeded sixty percent in every county.


1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi, Vote
Goldwater's percentage margin is the largest statewide percentage victory by any Republican presidential nominee since that party formed, while no state has been won by so large a margin since. In seven counties, Goldwater received a larger proportion of the vote than any presidential nominee has subsequently received in one county. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Claiborne County, Holmes County, and Jefferson County voted for a Republican presidential nominee.


1964 United States presidential election in Missouri
The 1964 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Missouri
Missouri was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 64.05% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 35.95% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time that Perry County, Holt County, Lawrence County, Jasper County, Polk County, Greene County, Cooper County, Newton County, Cape Girardeau County, Barry County, St. Charles County, and Barton County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1964 United States presidential election in Montana
The 1964 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 3, 1964, and was part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Montana
Montana powerfully voted for the Democratic nominee, President Lyndon B. Johnson, over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson won Montana by a large margin of 18.38%. This is the last presidential election where a Democrat won Montana by a majority of the popular vote (Bill Clinton would win the state by a plurality in 1992). As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate: Yellowstone, Flathead, Ravalli, Park, Custer, Richland, Fergus, Granite, Powell, Teton, Carbon, Chouteau, Wheatland, Judith Basin, Pondera, Golden Valley, Toole, Liberty, Treasure, Musselshell, Phillips, Daniels, and Petroleum.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Nebraska was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 52.61% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 47.39% of the popular vote.


1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska
With his win in the state, President Johnson would become the first Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 to win the state. The Cornhusker State was Johnson's weakest in the Great Plains region, and one of two where he did not win every congressional district, the other being Oklahoma. Senator Goldwater carried the state's 3rd district which encompassed the western half of the state, while Johnson carried the 1st and 2nd in the eastern half. Johnson carried 38 counties to Goldwater's 55. Nebraska weighed in as 17.36% more Republican than the national average.


1964 United States presidential election in Nebraska
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time the Democratic candidate won Nebraska at large, as well as Adams County, Sarpy County, Cass County, Washington County, Saunders County, Gage County, Dixon County, Nemaha County, Richardson County, Boone County, Lincoln County, Polk County, Fillmore County, Johnson County, Cedar County, Buffalo County, Seward County, Hall County, Jefferson County, Thayer County, Webster County, Platte County, Nuckolls County, Clay County, Colfax County, Franklin County, Howard County, Nance County, Logan County, and Kearney County. Douglas County and Lancaster County would not vote Democratic again until 2008. Barack Obama would later win the state's 2nd congressional district in 2008 and received one electoral vote from the state. Joe Biden, Obama's running mate in 2008, did the same in 2020. Nebraska as a whole, however, has remained a safely Republican state.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Nevada
Nevada was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 58.58% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 41.42% of the popular vote.


1964 United States presidential election in Nevada
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Elko County, Humboldt County, Pershing County, Lander County, Lincoln County, and Eureka County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate. Washoe County and Carson City did not vote Democratic again until 2008.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
The 1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
New Hampshire was won overwhelmingly by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his running mate Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Johnson and Humphrey defeated the Republican nominees, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and his running mate Congressman William E. Miller of New York.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Johnson took 63.89% of the vote to Goldwater’s 36.11%, a margin of 27.78%.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
The staunch conservative Barry Goldwater was widely perceived in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war. Thus Goldwater performed especially weakly in liberal northeastern states like New Hampshire, and for the first time in history, a Democratic presidential candidate swept every Northeastern state in 1964. Not only did Johnson win every Northeastern state, but he won all of them with landslides of over 60% of the vote, including New Hampshire.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Despite the scale of Johnson’s statewide win, he did not sweep every county in New Hampshire. Carroll County had long been the most Republican county in New Hampshire, voting over 70% Republican in 1960 and over 80% Republican in 1952 and 1956. In 1964, Carroll County would again be the most Republican county in the state, voting 55–45 Goldwater even as every other county in the state voted decisively for Johnson. Carroll County was not only the only county carried by Goldwater in New Hampshire, it was the only county Goldwater won in all of New England and the Northeastern United States outside of Pennsylvania. Despite the landslide loss, New Hampshire would prove to be Goldwater’s strongest state in the Northeast.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Johnson won the remainder of the state by decisive margins, with his strongest victories in the New Deal Democratic base counties of Hillsborough County, Strafford County, and Coös County, which had long been Democratic counties in an otherwise Republican state, even as the rest of the state finally joined them in voting Democratic in 1964.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
This was the first time Sullivan County had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, the first time Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack and Rockingham Counties had voted Democratic since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 when the GOP was mortally divided, and the first time Cheshire County had voted Democratic since voting for New Hampshire native Franklin Pierce in 1852.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Johnson’s strongest victory was in rural, French-Canadian Coös County in the far north of the state, which Johnson won with 71.1% of the vote.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
This would prove the last occasion until 2008 when the Democratic Party won Belknap County and the last until 1996 when a Democratic Presidential nominee won Rockingham County. New Hampshire as a whole, along with Cheshire, Grafton, Merrimack and Sullivan Counties, would never again vote Democratic until 1992.


1964 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
As Johnson won a decisive nationwide landslide with 61.05% of the vote, normally Republican-leaning New Hampshire’s results made the state over 5% more Democratic than the national average in the 1964 election. Only in the 1920 Republican landslide, when the state was James M. Cox’s second-best antebellum free state despite being lost by 20%, has New Hampshire voted more Democratic relative to the nation.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1964. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey was won overwhelmingly by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his running mate Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Johnson and Humphrey defeated the Republican nominees, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and his running mate Congressman William E. Miller of New York.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Johnson carried New Jersey in a landslide with 65.61% of the vote to Goldwater’s 33.86%, a margin of 31.75%.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Johnson also swept all twenty-one of New Jersey’s counties, the first and to date only time a Democratic presidential nominee has ever done so. Johnson was the first Democrat to ever carry Ocean County since it was created in 1850. He was also the first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry Monmouth and Morris Counties and the first since Wilson in 1916 to carry Sussex County, whilst the counties of Bergen, Cape May, Hunterdon and Somerset went Democratic for the first time since FDR‘s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Johnson broke 60% of the vote in 15 counties, and 70% in 4: Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Cumberland, besides falling just short of the mark in Essex County, where Johnson received 69.9%. Hudson would be the most Democratic county, giving Johnson 73.5% of the vote. Goldwater’s strongest county was rural Sussex County, where he received 45.2% of the vote to Johnson’s 54.8%.


1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean. But this normal pattern was broken in 1964, as Goldwater’s staunch conservatism led many moderate Northeastern Republicans to view Goldwater as an extremist and defect to the Democrats that year. As Johnson won a massive landslide nationally, normally GOP-leaning New Jersey’s result would even be almost 10% more Democratic than the national average. This was also the last time New Jersey would go to a Democratic candidate for president until 1992, after which it has always gone Democratic since. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Sussex County, Hunterdon County, and Warren County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Somerset County did not vote Democratic again until 2008 and Morris County would not vote Democratic again until 2020.


1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
The 1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1964. All fifty states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
New Mexico was won by President Lyndon B. Johnson in a 19-point landslide. Johnson had won after serving as President for one year following the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater lost most of the United States in this election, except for his home state and portions of the American South. Goldwater won only three counties: the Plains counties of Union and Harding, which as of the 2020 presidential election have never voted Democratic since 1948, and Lincoln County, which has never voted Democratic since 1936.


1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Even in these, Goldwater won only narrowly: his highest proportion of the vote was only 52.55 percent in Lincoln County. Four other normally reliably Republican counties – San Juan, Curry, Chaves and Catron – were narrowly won by Johnson and have never voted for a Democrat since. This is also the last time the southeastern counties of Roosevelt, Otero and Lea have voted Democratic and Los Alamos County did not vote Democratic again until 2008.


1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
At the other extreme, Grant and Sandoval Counties both gave Johnson over seventy percent of the vote, and the populous counties of Santa Fe and Taos also gave him over two-thirds.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
The 1964 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New York voters chose 43 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and his running mate, President pro tempore of the Senate Hubert Humphrey, against Republican challenger and Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona and his running mate and Chair of the Republican National Committee, William E. Miller.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Johnson carried the state in a historic landslide, taking 68.56% of the vote to Goldwater's 31.31%, a victory margin of 37.25%. This is the only election in history in which a Democratic presidential candidate carried every single county in the state of New York. The staunch conservative Barry Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal New England states as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Thus Goldwater performed especially weakly in northeastern states like New York: he wrote off the state and neighboring Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island from the beginning of his presidential campaign even before Kennedy's assassination. For the first time in history, a Democratic presidential candidate swept every Northeastern state in 1964. Not only did Johnson win every Northeastern state, but he won all of them with landslides of over 60% of the vote, including New York, which weighed in as the fifth most Democratic state in the nation. By September, polls suggested Johnson would carry the Empire State by forty percentage points – a result more accurate than polls in the South.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
However, the results of this election in New York were typical of President Johnson's almost universal popularity across the United States at the time. The only region of the United States that did not send electors for Johnson were Arizona (Goldwater's home state) and several states in the Deep South. 1964 was the first election where the South showed a trend towards independent identification with the Republican Party, foreshadowing the Southern Strategy that the Republican Party has utilized since 1968.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Johnson's Civil Rights Act had solidified integration which had already been happening in New York for the better part of fifty years by the 1964 election. Johnson's socially liberal and racially tolerant political position largely increased his popularity in New York, in contrast to the highly conservative Goldwater who appealed to white Southerners.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Johnson dominated heavily Democratic cities such as New York City, the largest in the country, as well as Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, which historically provided Democratic candidates an advantage with diverse and educated populations. However, he also swept every county in the state, including traditionally Republican upstate New York and Long Island. Johnson carried all five boroughs of New York City, the first presidential candidate to do so since the landslide re-election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. In the borough of Manhattan, Johnson broke 80% of the vote, the first presidential candidate ever to do so.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Brooklyn and the Bronx voted over 70% Democratic. Traditionally Republican Queens, narrowly carried by John F. Kennedy four years earlier in 1960, gave over 60% of the vote to Johnson. Even Staten Island voted Democratic, the only occasion it would do so between 1936 and 1996, although Goldwater's best performances at around 45% of the vote were in Staten Island along with Suffolk County, a historically Republican suburb of New York. Overall, New York City gave Johnson 73.02% of the vote, a citywide vote share no candidate would surpass until fellow Democrat Bill Clinton’s 77.10% in the 1996 election.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
With 2,183,646 votes from the five boroughs, Johnson also received more votes in New York City than any other presidential candidate in history, setting a record that would hold for over another half-century until Democrat Hillary Clinton would finally surpass him by winning the city by 2,191,869 votes in the 2016 election.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
The presidential election of 1964 was a very partisan election for New York, with almost 99.9% of the electorate voting for either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
This result also made Johnson one of only three presidential candidates of either party who have been able to sweep every county in New York State, the others being Republicans Warren G. Harding in 1920 and Calvin Coolidge in 1924.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
Johnson's 68.56% of the vote remains the highest vote share any presidential candidate of either party has ever received in New York State. His 37.25% victory margin also remains the widest margin by which any Democratic presidential candidate has ever won New York State, and the second-widest margin by which any candidate of either party has ever carried the state, only beaten narrowly by Republican Warren G. Harding’s 37.61% margin in the 1920 Republican landslide. Johnson's record of 4.9 million votes won by a single candidate in New York would hold for decades until surpassed by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
New York weighed in for this election as 15% more Democratic than the national average.


1964 United States presidential election in New York
This is the only time in American history that the counties of Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming voted for the Democratic presidential nominee. Unlike some analogous Northeastern counties where Johnson only won very narrowly, like Lancaster in Pennsylvania, Johnson won these normally Republican upstate counties by large margins over 25%. Hamilton and Greene Counties had not voted Democratic since Woodrow Wilson carried them in 1916, nor would they ever vote for a Democrat after, whilst Putnam and Steuben Counties previously voted Democratic in 1912 and have never done so since.


1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina
The 1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 3, 1964, and was part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina
North Carolina voted for incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, with 56.15 percent of the vote, over Republican nominee Barry Goldwater, who obtained 43.85 percent. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election when the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Wayne, Moore, and Lenoir.


1964 United States presidential election in North Dakota
The 1964 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in North Dakota
North Dakota was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 57.97% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 41.88% of the popular vote, a 16.09% margin of victory.


1964 United States presidential election in North Dakota
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when the state of North Dakota voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last time the following counties backed a Democrat for President: Burleigh, Ward, Stark, Williams, Stutsman, Richland, Barnes, Pembina, Bottineau, McKenzie, McHenry, Dickey, Wells, LaMoure, Bowman, Hettinger, Burke, Oliver, Billings, and Slope.


1964 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 1964 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 3, 1964 as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 26 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.


1964 United States presidential election in Ohio
Ohio was overwhelmingly won by the Democratic Party nominee, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who carried the state with 62.94% of the vote against Republican Party Barry Goldwater’s 37.06%.


1964 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 1964 election marks the only time a Democratic candidate for president won Ohio with over 60% of the popular vote (and the last time a nominee from either party has done so), the last time the Democrats carried more counties than the Republican candidate, and the last time the margin of victory for the Democratic candidate was in double digits.


1964 United States presidential election in Ohio
This is the only election since the Civil War in which Clinton, Warren and Geauga Counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clermont, Crawford, Darke, Defiance, Fairfield, Fayette, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Highland, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Logan, Madison, Marion, Medina, Miami, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Paulding, Pickaway, Preble, Putnam, Richland, Shelby, Van Wert, Washington, Wayne, Williams, and Wyandot counties have never voted Democratic since, while Franklin County did not vote Democratic again until 1996 and Hamilton County did not do so again until 2008.


1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
The 1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 3, 1964. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic Party candidate, won Oklahoma with an 11.49 percent margin of victory against Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, winning its eight electoral votes. Oklahoma had begun trending Republican since 1952, with the margin of victory steadily increasing. In 1964, a majority of voters rejected the staunchly conservative Goldwater, who was portrayed as a right-wing extremist, and defected to the more moderate Johnson.


1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
In typical fashion for the time, Johnson overwhelmingly won Southern Oklahoma, the most Democratic region of the state, carrying every county with over 60% of the vote. Goldwater performed strongly in the northern region including the Oklahoma Panhandle and Garfield County, home to Enid. Goldwater was able to hold Johnson below 60% in counties he won in this region except for Ottawa County and Craig County. As for the major urban areas, Johnson carried Oklahoma County, home of Oklahoma City, 52%-48%, while Goldwater carried Tulsa County 55%-45%. As a result, Oklahoma weighed in as 11.08 percentage points more Republican than the national average.


1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
As of 2020, this is the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has carried Oklahoma, as the state has since become one of the most heavily Republican in the nation. Johnson was also the last Democrat to carry Oklahoma County, Cleveland County (home to Norman), Comanche County, Canadian County, Custer County, Noble County, and Payne County (home to Stillwater). Despite this, Oklahoma would remain reliably Democratic at the state level for the next several decades.


1964 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Johnson's strong performance undoubtedly helped liberal Democrat Fred R. Harris win a special election to the United States Senate over Republican Bud Wilkinson, the popular football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners from 1947-63.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Oregon
Oregon was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 63.72% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 35.96% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Douglas, Klamath, Lake, Harney, Wallowa, Union, Baker, Umatilla, Grant, Sherman, Polk and Yamhill.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
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, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Background
Ever since the Republican Party formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the territories, Pennsylvania had been a solidly Republican state apart from the industrial "Black Country" of the southwest, the urban core of Philadelphia County, and those areas which had not supported the Civil War, such as the northern part of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country and the northeastern Delaware Valley. The southwestern region, however, had come to make the state Democratic-leaning in the 1950s, although relative to national trends Pennsylvania trended Republican in 1960.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Background
However, during the 1960s the GOP 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 centred in the traditionally Democratic, but by the 1960s, middle-class Sun Belt had become much more conservative than the majority of members in the historic Northeastern GOP stronghold.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Background
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. The staunch conservative Goldwater was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Background
Goldwater wrote Pennsylvania off from the very beginning of his campaign, whilst local Republicans generally preferred moderate Governor William Scranton, who was encouraged to run (to no effect) by ex-President and former Gettysburg native Dwight D. Eisenhower. Many Pennsylvania Congressmen, notably James G. Fulton, refused to endorse Goldwater.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
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 and George H. W. Bush in 1992 when third-party candidates obtained substantial minorities of the vote, Goldwater's is easily the worst showing for a Republican in the state since that party was founded.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
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 2-party system that the state has been more anomalously Democratic than this was in Ronald Reagan's 1984 Republican landslide when Pennsylvania came out about 10% more Democratic than the US at-large.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
Johnson won all but four counties: the central Pennsylvania counties of Snyder and Union, which have not voted Democratic since the Civil War, northeastern border 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 Roosevelt won by 587 votes in 1936.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
This is the only occasion since 1856 when Lancaster County has not voted for the Republican presidential candidate, and was the first time since that election when suburban Delaware County had not voted Republican. 7 other counties – Somerset, Butler and the northern bloc of Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Cameron and McKean – also cast their solitary vote for a Democratic presidential candidate since at least the Civil War.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
In addition to these counties voting Democratic for the solitary occasion since the Civil War, a large bloc of Appalachia and adjacent areas – comprising York County, Cumberland County, Franklin County, Adams County, Blair County, Lycoming County, Northumberland County, Bedford County, Clarion County, Crawford County, Fulton County, Huntingdon County, Pike County, Venango County, Mifflin County, Perry County, Jefferson County, Susquehanna County, Wyoming County, Juniata County, Montour County, and Sullivan County – have never voted for a Democratic candidate since.


1964 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Vote
This was also the last occasion until Barack Obama in 2008 that the Democrats won Dauphin County, Berks County, Monroe County and Chester County. Within the more typically Democratic western and eastern peripheries Johnson won over 73% of the vote in Greene and Fayette Counties.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, over the Republican nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Johnson ran with Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, while Goldwater’s running mate was Congressman William E. Miller of New York.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Johnson carried Rhode Island in a landslide, taking 80.87% of the vote to Goldwater’s 19.13%, a Democratic victory margin of 61.74%. This made Rhode Island Lyndon Johnson’s strongest state in the nation: even in the midst of a massive nationwide Democratic landslide, Rhode Island weighed in as 39% more Democratic than the national average during the 1964 election.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The staunch conservative Goldwater was widely seen in the Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war. While John F. Kennedy had won 63.63% in Rhode Island in 1960 mostly by sweeping the ethnic Catholic vote, for 1964, this traditional Democratic coalition was joined by mass defections of moderate Yankee Republicans who had voted for Eisenhower and Nixon but could not support the supposed extremist Goldwater.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
His landslide was so large, he won a record 315,463 votes, a record that still has not been beaten. The closest any candidate has come since then was in 2020, when Joe Biden took 306,192 votes. Consequently, the incumbent Johnson was able to take more than 80% of the vote in liberal Rhode Island.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Johnson swept all 5 counties in Rhode Island with over 70% of the vote. In Providence County, the most populated county, home to the state’s capital and largest city, Providence, Johnson took 83.5% of the vote. This was the strongest showing ever for a Democratic presidential candidate in Providence.


1964 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Johnson’s 80.87% remains the highest vote share percentage any presidential candidate of either party has ever received in Rhode Island, and his 61.74% victory margin remains the widest margin by which any candidate of either party has ever won the state. In fact, since 1968 no state of the Union has ever given any candidate so large a proportion of the vote.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Background
For six decades up to 1950 South Carolina was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party had been moribund due to the disfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as the Palmetto State completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. Between 1900 and 1948, no Republican presidential candidate ever obtained more than seven percent of the total presidential vote – a vote which in 1924 reached as low as 6.6 percent of the total voting-age population (or approximately 15 percent of the voting-age white population).


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Background
Following Harry S. Truman’s To Secure These Rights in 1947, the following year South Carolina’s Governor Strom Thurmond, led almost all of the state Democratic machinery into the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats). As the Dixiecrat presidential candidate, Thurmond won 71 percent of the state’s limited electorate and every county except poor white industrial Anderson and Spartanburg. During the 1950s, the state’s wealthier and more urbanized whites became extremely disenchanted with the national Democratic Party and to a lesser extent with the federal administration of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Background
However, aided by the state’s abolition of its poll tax in 1950, the poor white upcountry provided enough support to national Democrats Adlai Stevenson II and John F. Kennedy to, aided by substantial majorities amongst the small but increasing number of blacks able to vote, keep the state in Democratic hands.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Background
During the 1950s, wealthy textile mill owners in the upcountry developed a grassroots state Republican Party dedicated to the tenets of the John Birch Society. This group nominated the most conservative delegation at the party’s 1960 convention. These wealthy businessmen would merge with hardline segregationists to draft Barry Goldwater for the Republican nomination in 1960 and join forces therein by the time of the next presidential election. When Goldwater secured the nomination for 1964 and voted against the Civil Rights Act, he courted Thurmond – now South Carolina’s junior senator – to change parties. Thurmond did this, and immediately linked his party switch to the Goldwater presidential campaign, which toured the state in September.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Background
The Democratic Party, for its part, had struggled bitterly over whether to select electors pledged to incumbent President Lyndon Johnson due to his support for civil rights and desegregation; however, like Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, South Carolina chose Democratic electors pledged to LBJ. President Johnson did not campaign in the state, being hopeful that a black registration increased by more than Kennedy’s 1960 margin and support from economically liberal Senator Olin Johnston would help him win without campaigning.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Polls
Early polls in the Palmetto State gave a substantial lead to Goldwater, but by the end of October the state was viewed as similarly close to the 1952 and 1960 races where the Democrats won by under ten thousand votes.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Vote
As it turned out, and analogously to Mississippi, early polls were the most accurate and Goldwater carried South Carolina by a comfortable margin, taking 58.89 percent of the vote to Johnson’s 41.10 percent. The swing away from Johnson was general except in a few areas of substantial black voter registration increases, and Goldwater‘s lowcountry dominance easily offset Johnson’s narrow edge amongst the poor whites of the upcountry who, despite their hostility to Johnson’s civil rights measures, saw Goldwater as a Dixiecrat-style conservative committed to privatization of services poor whites viewed essential. After narrow losses in 1952 and 1960, Goldwater became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry South Carolina since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876.


1964 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Vote
With 58.89 percent of the popular vote, South Carolina would prove to be Goldwater's third strongest state in the 1964 election after Mississippi and Alabama. The state has voted Republican in every subsequent election except 1976.


1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota
The 1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 55.61 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 44.39% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time South Dakota was carried by the Democratic nominee, as well as the last time a Democrat won Pennington County, Lincoln County, Meade County, Yankton County, Custer County, Bennett County, Clark County, Hamlin County, Hand County, Hyde County, Jackson County, Jones County, Lyman County, Mellette County, Potter County, Stanley County, Tripp County, and Walworth County.


1964 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1964 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Tennessee
Tennessee was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 55.50% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 44.49% of the popular vote.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1964 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, comfortably won his home state of Texas with 63.32% of the vote against the Republican Party candidate, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who won 36.5%, giving him the state's 25 electoral votes and a victory margin of 26.8 percentage points. Johnson won the 1964 election in a massive landslide, carrying 44 states plus the District of Columbia, which participated for the first time. Goldwater only carried his home state of Arizona along with five Deep South states which had been historically Democratic, but defected to the Republican Party due to the Democratic Party’s support for civil rights.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
The home state of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas was easily his best state in the former Confederacy, although he did better still in four of the five border states. Overall Texas was Johnson’s nineteenth best state in the election and weighed in at 4.25% points more Democratic than the national average. Johnson won every region in the state by wide margins, including those which had begun trending Republican in recent presidential elections such as the Texas Panhandle, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and Metro Houston. Every major city in the state voted for Johnson, including every mid-sized city with the exceptions of Odessa, Midland, Tyler, and Longview, which were won by Goldwater.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
Two counties in the northern Panhandle, Ochiltree and Roberts, gave Goldwater over sixty percent of the vote, further reflecting this region’s trend towards the Republican Party. Given that it was also Johnson’s home county, Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country voted Democratic for the only time since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landslide in the 1932 election, in which he carried every county. This is the only presidential election between 1952 and 2008 that Dallas and Harris counties voted for the Democratic candidate. Dallas in particular likely swung towards Johnson due to the city still being in mourning from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred less than a year before the election. Despite this strong swing, Johnson only carried Dallas County by a 9.6% margin.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
President Johnson carried 238 out of the state’s 254 counties, and all twenty-three congressional districts. The 1964 election marks the last time a Democratic candidate for president won Texas with over sixty percent of the vote, won the state with a double-digit margin, and carried any counties with over ninety percent of the vote (in this case, the South Texas counties of Duval and Webb). Webb, Duval and Jim Hogg counties stood among the four most Democratic in the nation.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
Aside from Johnson's home county Gillespie as mentioned above, this remains the last election as of the 2020 presidential election in which the counties of Andrews, Austin, Bandera, Brazos, Collin, Comal, Cooke, Crane, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Denton, DeWitt, Guadalupe, Hartley, Hemphill, Irion, Kerr, Kimble, Loving, Lubbock, Martin, McMullen, Montgomery, Potter, Reagan, Runnels, Rusk, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Taylor, Tom Green, Upton, Uvalde, Victoria, Washington, Winkler, and Yoakum voted for the Democratic presidential candidate.


1964 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
Dallas County and Harris County, the two most populous in the state, would not vote Democratic again until Barack Obama won them in 2008; Fort Bend County, a Houston suburb, would not vote Democratic again until Hillary Clinton won it in 2016; and Tarrant County, the third most populous county and home to the long-conservative Fort Worth suburbs, would not vote Democratic  again until Joe Biden won it in 2020. This is also the last time a Democratic candidate won every county in the Texas Triangle.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Utah
Utah was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.86 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.14 percent of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah. Additionally, it is the last time that a Democratic presidential candidate has won even 40 percent of Utah's vote.


1964 United States presidential election in Utah
As of 2020, it is the last time that Utah County, Weber County, Wasatch County, Duchesne County, Juab County, Morgan County, Beaver County, Wayne County, and Daggett County have voted Democratic.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1964 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Vermont voters chose 3 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and his running mate, Senate Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, against Republican challenger and Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona and his running mate and Chair of the Republican National Committee, William E. Miller. It was the first time in Vermont's history that the state voted for the Democratic Party.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont voted overwhelmingly for Lyndon B. Johnson with 66.30% of the vote to Goldwater's 33.69%, a Democratic victory margin of 32.61%. With this decisive win, Johnson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever win Vermont, breaking a Republican voting streak of 104 years, beginning in 1856. Johnson's landslide margin of victory in this traditional Republican stronghold even made the state ten percentage points more Democratic than the national average in the 1964 election. Along with winning the state for the first time, Johnson was also the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Rutland, Orange, Orleans, Windham and Windsor Counties.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont historically was a bastion of progressive Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1964 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. However, in 1964 this streak came to an end when the GOP nominated staunch conservative Barry Goldwater, who was widely seen in the liberal Northeastern United States as a right-wing extremist; he had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a warmonger who as president would provoke a nuclear war.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Thus, Goldwater performed especially weakly in liberal northeastern states like Vermont, and for the first time in history, a Democratic presidential candidate swept every Northeastern state in 1964. Not only did Johnson win every Northeastern state, but he won all of them with landslides of over 60% of the vote, including Vermont, which weighed in as the ninth most Democratic state in the nation. Goldwater lost the 1964 election in a nationwide landslide, but the loss in Vermont was especially severe from a historical perspective.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Johnson swept all 14 counties in Vermont, breaking 60% of the vote in 11 of them. In the northwestern part of the state, Johnson broke 70% of the vote in 2 counties: Chittenden County, the most populous county, home to the state's largest city, Burlington, as well as Franklin County. The northwestern three counties of Vermont had long been Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state, and remained the most Democratic region in 1964, even as the rest of the state finally joined them in voting Democratic. Johnson's weakest performance was in Lamoille County, where he carried 53.85% of the vote to Goldwater's 46.15% – a strong performance for the Democrats nonetheless.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
After 1964, the state would revert to voting GOP again in 1968 and remain in the Republican column for another twenty-year streak through 1988, although the Republicans would never recover the overwhelming margins by which they once dominated Vermont. The results of 1964, with Goldwater dominating the Deep South while losing the Northeast, would foreshadow the future political trajectory of the nation. Like the rest of the Northeast, Vermont would finally flip to the Democrats for good in 1992, ultimately forming what would be known as the Blue Wall. As the GOP became increasingly dominated by Southerners, conservatives, and evangelicals, the 1964 election would foreshadow Vermont's modern-day status as one of the most Democratic and left-wing states in the nation.


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Johnson's landslide win in Vermont would remain the strongest Democratic victory in the state until the elections of Barack Obama, who outperformed Johnson in Vermont in both 2008 and 2012. In 2020, Joe Biden outperformed Johnson's margin but not his vote share (though due to that election being significantly closer, Vermont was still the most Democratic state in the union).


1964 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont was one of the three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being Alaska and Georgia.


1964 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1964 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 3, 1964. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.


1964 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas with 53.54% of the vote, who was running against U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Johnson also won the national election in a landslide with 61.05% of the vote. However, the state would not vote for another Democratic candidate until 2008.


1964 United States presidential election in Virginia
As of the 2020 presidential election, this remains the last occasion when Amherst County, Bland County, Clarke County, Culpeper County, Fauquier County, Frederick County, Rockingham County, Washington County and York County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the only time since 1948 Waynesboro City has voted for a Democrat for president, while Prince William County and Winchester City would never vote Democratic again until 2008. Fairfax County, Virginia's most populous county, would not vote Democratic again until 2004, having last voted Democratic in 1940 before this election. The independent city of Virginia Beach would not vote Democratic again until 2020.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Washington was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 61.97% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 37.37% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Yakima County, Benton County, Grant County, Franklin County, Lewis County, Chelan County, Walla Walla County, Stevens County, Douglas County, Columbia County, and Garfield County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


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


1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 67.94% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 32.06% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Berkeley County, Wood County, Preston County, Upshur County, and Doddridge County. Johnson's 538,087 votes is the highest total received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 1964 as part of 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
Politics in Wisconsin since the Populist movement had been dominated by the Republican Party, as the upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, fled from William Jennings Bryan's agrarian and free silver sympathies. Competition between the "League" under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative "Regular" faction would develop into the Wisconsin Progressive Party in the late 1930s, which was opposed to the conservative German Democrats and to the national Republican Party, and allied with Franklin D. Roosevelt at the federal level.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
During the two wartime elections, the formerly Democratic German counties in the east of the state – which had been powerfully opposed to the Civil War because they saw it as a "Yankee" war and opposed the military draft instituted during it – viewed Communism as a much greater threat to America than Nazism and consequently opposed President Roosevelt's war effort. Consequently, these historically Democratic counties became virtually the most Republican in the entire state, and became a major support base for populist conservative Senator Joe McCarthy, who became notorious for his investigations into Communists inside the American government. The state's populace's opposition to Communism and the Korean War turned Wisconsin strongly to Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
The 1958 midterm elections, however, saw a major change in Wisconsin politics, as Gaylord A. Nelson became only the state's second Democratic Governor since 1895, and the state also elected Democrats to the position of treasurer and Senator, besides that party gaining a majority in the State Assembly for only the second time since the middle 1890s. They maintained a close balance in the early 1960s, signalling the state's transition to a swing state.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
During the Republican primaries, Wisconsin supported favorite son John W. Byrnes but no other state joined him. Ultimate Republican nominee Barry Goldwater considered Wisconsin a useful state to combine with his Southern and Western strategy for winning the presidency and directing the GOP away from the declining Yankee Northeast. The Republican would campaign in Wisconsin late in September, but met with severe hostility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Signs saying "Bring the Bomb—Back Barry" were common in Madison.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Early polls nevertheless showed incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson leading Goldwater comfortably, despite predictions of a severe backlash to the Civil Rights Act from Wisconsin's anti-black German-American and Polish-American populations. Extreme fears of financial loss for farmers accounted for a 66—28 lead for Johnson in September, and fear of Goldwater's policy of strategic use of nuclear weapons, rather than enthusiasm for the domestic and foreign policies of President Johnson, was cited as the cause of the President's continuing strong lead one month later.


1964 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Ultimately, Wisconsin would vote strongly for President Johnson, who defeated Goldwater by a margin of 24.35 percent - a large margin though considerably less than some early polls had expected. Goldwater held up slightly better in the German areas where conservative Republicanism had been established by anti-World War II sentiment, whilst he lost heavily in the Yankee counties of the south. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Green Lake County, Ozaukee County, Vilas County, Washington County, and Waukesha County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


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


1964 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 56.56 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 43.44% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this was the last time a Democratic presidential nominee has carried the state of Wyoming – in fact no Democrat has since reached forty percent of the state's vote. It is also the last occasion Laramie County, Fremont County, Sheridan County, Park County, Uinta County, Lincoln County, Goshen County, Big Horn County, Platte County, or Hot Springs County have voted for a Democratic Presidential nominee.


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


1964 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
President Lyndon B. Johnson won Washington, D.C. by an overwhelming margin, receiving over 85% of the vote. This was the first presidential election in which the District of Columbia had the right to vote. The District of Columbia has voted Democratic by large margins every time since this election.


1964 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Peñarol won the championship.


1964 Utah Redskins football team
The 1964 Utah Redskins football team represented the University of Utah during the 1964 NCAA University Division football season. Home games were played on campus in Salt Lake City at Ute Stadium.


1964 Utah Redskins football team
Under seventh-year head coach Ray Nagel, the Redskins were 8–2 in the regular season and 3–1 in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and were co-champions. Led by quarterback Pokey Allen, running back Ron Coleman, and receiver Roy Jefferson, Utah defeated West Virginia 32–6 in the Liberty Bowl, played indoors in New Jersey at the Atlantic City convention center, and finished with a 9–2 record.


1964 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1964 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1964 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Tony Knap, the Aggies compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 294 to 136.


1964 Utah State Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ron Edwards with 798 passing yards and Craig Murray with 455 rushing yards, 510 receiving yards, and 42 points scored.


1964 Utah gubernatorial election
The 1964 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1964. Democratic nominee Cal Rampton defeated Republican nominee Mitchell Melich with 56.99% of the vote.


1964 VFA season
The 1964 Victorian Football Association season was the 83rd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the fourth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Williamstown in the Grand Final on 26 September by 36 points; it was Port Melbourne's 8th VFA premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Geelong West, in only its second season in the VFA.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership
Less than a month before the 1964 season, the defending Division 1 premier club, Moorabbin, was suspended from the Association, in the aftermath of the Victorian Football League's St Kilda Football Club announcing its intention to move its playing and administrative base to Moorabbin Oval from 1965.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Background
In the early 1960s, many Victorian Football League clubs were dissatisfied with their home grounds. In some cases, such as Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval, the grounds were small and the surroundings prohibited expansion. In other cases, such as Fitzroy at Brunswick Street Oval, the local district cricket club, rather than the football club, had the controlling occupancy of the ground, leaving the football clubs with unsatisfactory lease arrangements and little control over how the ground was managed.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Background
Some Association grounds offered attractive solutions to the League clubs' problems: the grounds were often newer and larger than the older League grounds, they were not controlled by a strong traditional cricket club, and had the added benefit of being located in rapidly growing outer suburbs whence a League club could attract new fans.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Background
At the same time, many local councils in the outer suburbs harboured ambitions of bringing League football to their districts, seeing great opportunity and great prestige in it. Councils, particularly those which oversaw a large population and managed a good quality ground, such as Moorabbin and Coburg, had been actively seeking to be represented in the League for several years.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Background
These combined driving forces had led to much discussion about League grounds leading up to 1964. Over the previous few years, two League clubs had made formal, but unsuccessful, attempts to move to Association grounds: St Kilda, to Brighton's then-home ground at Elsternwick Park in 1959; and Fitzroy to the Preston football ground starting in 1962 – and there were several other rumours, most notably that Richmond was interested in moving to Oakleigh.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
The first grounds-related controversy of the off-season occurred in October 1963, when the Moorabbin and Preston Football Clubs – the reigning Division 1 and Division 2 premiers respectively – were both accused of having attempted to amalgamate with League teams, or having otherwise facilitated attempts by those League teams to move into their grounds. Both clubs were forced to face the Association executive committee to outline the roles, if any, that they had played in the negotiations.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
Preston faced the Association on 15 October, over ongoing speculation of dealings with the Fitzroy Football Club since its first attempt to move to Preston in 1962. The Association decided that Fitzroy had been negotiating only with the Preston Council, that the Preston Football Club had been involved only in the discussions that it could not avoid under the circumstances, and that the club was remaining loyal to the Association and had not sought amalgamation. No further action was taken against the club.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
Moorabbin faced the Association on 29 October. Moorabbin was accused of having proposed to amalgamate with Richmond during the previous season (but been turned down), and having also engaged in discussions with Fitzroy over the potential for a move or amalgamation. The executive found that Moorabbin had been acting against the interests of the Association, and it recommended that the club be expelled.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
On 1 November, Moorabbin's fate was discussed at a Board of Management meeting.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
Moorabbin president Mr Don Bricker commented that "all that is wrong with Moorabbin is that it is too progressive for the VFA"; but he also stated in the club's defence that the Moorabbin Council was the main driving force behind the push to get a League club to Moorabbin Oval, and that it was in his club's best interests to support the council and pursue amalgamation with a League club, rather than oppose the council and find itself homeless and forced to disband if and when a League club moved in. The motion to expel the club required a two-thirds majority to pass, and was defeated by a single vote, with the final count 27–15 in favour of expulsion.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, Accusations against Preston and Moorabbin in October 1963
As such, preparations were made for the 1964 season including both Preston and Moorabbin in the fixture.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
On 24 March 1964, the St Kilda Football Club announced that it would move its playing and administrative base to Moorabbin Oval, starting from the 1965 season, under an agreement that was formally signed in July 1964. The Moorabbin council agreed to invest a further £100,000 to bring the venue to VFL standards and expand its capacity to 50,000.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
The St Kilda Football Club signed a 75-year £5,000 per year deal for the ground, under which it became ground manager, and committed to invest £120,000 in establishing a licensed social club and to invest £375,000 for ground improvements over the first 45 years of the deal, and would sublet the ground to and prepare wickets for the sub-district Moorabbin Cricket Club during summer.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
St Kilda's move was mostly motivated by the desire to be ground manager: its existing home, the St Kilda Cricket Ground, was a very good quality venue with no specific failings to motivate the club to move (The Sun News-Pictorial described it as the fourth-best football/cricket oval in the country, behind only the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sydney Cricket Ground and Adelaide Oval), but the St Kilda Cricket Club was ground manager and therefore controlled how the ground was operated and developed.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
Other benefits St Kilda derived from its move were that it could operate and profit from its own social club at the new venue, it was at lower cost than the £8,000 per year rent it had paid at St Kilda, it escaped an arrangement under which cricket club members could purchase football club memberships for only one third of the regular price, and it allowed the club to appeal to new fans in the fast-growing Moorabbin area; the club had initially announced that it would change its name to the St Kilda–Moorabbin Football Club after the move, but these plans were abandoned two weeks later. The announcement came as a complete surprise to the football public, as there had been no rumours that the club was interested in leaving the St Kilda Cricket Ground since its attempt to move to Elsternwick Park in 1959.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
The announcement came after two months of secret negotiations between St Kilda and the Moorabbin Council; and according to Bricker, the Moorabbin Football Club knew nothing of the negotiations until being informed in a meeting with both parties on 24 March, just hours before the move was first publicly announced. It was considered a near certainty that the loss of its ground would have resulted in the club's expulsion from the Association, so the Moorabbin Council committed to providing a replacement Association-standard venue in the district if the football club wished it to do so. The football club held an extraordinary meeting on 25 March, and at that meeting determined that its official position was to support the council in its efforts to attract League football to the district, and to seek to amalgamate with the St Kilda Football Club.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
At its next meeting on 3 April, the Association Board of Management again discussed expelling Moorabbin for "an act prejudicial to the V.F.A. in supporting League football". This time, the motion to expel succeeded in getting the two-thirds majority it required, passing by 30–12; the six clubs to oppose the motion were Northcote, Moorabbin itself, and fellow south-eastern clubs Sandringham, Brighton–Caulfield, Mordialloc and Dandenong. The club was suspended from the Association indefinitely, but with its position to be reviewed at the end of the season. Moorabbin's position in Division 1 was filled at less than three weeks' notice by the 1963 Division 2 runners-up, Waverley, and the size of Division 2 was reduced to eight teams.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
Moorabbin turned down offers to join the Federal League and the South-Eastern Suburban League at short notice for 1964, because playing in a league not affiliated with the Australian National Football Council would have precluded any chance of re-admission to the Association in 1965. With no other options available at such short notice, Moorabbin sat out of football in 1964. All of its players received clearances to any club of their choosing, under the condition that they return to Moorabbin if and when it returned to the Association.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
The vast majority of its players went to the other south-eastern clubs which voted against its expulsion; Brighton-Caulfield was a particular beneficiary, and the twelve key senior players it recruited from Moorabbin lifted the struggling club, which had won eight wooden spoons in the previous twelve years, into the finals for the first time since 1950.


1964 VFA season, Association Membership, St Kilda's move to Moorabbin Oval
As the season progressed, the club had to deal with £1500 of debts it had accrued as pre-season expenses, but without any steady income from takings, and the motivation of Moorabbin's committee to seek re-admission to the Association waned. With no home games at which to carry out the tradition, the club's 1963 premiership flag was unfurled at a social event at Moorabbin Oval on the evening of 4 July; this was the club's VFA swan song, as two nights later the committee voted 19–2 to abandon attempts to seek readmission in 1965. It began investigating a return to the Federal League, and ultimately disbanded. Bricker went on to join the St Kilda committee in December 1964.


1964 VFA season, Division 1
The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.


1964 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.


1964 VFA season, Notable events, Interstate matches
The Association played one interstate match during 1964, against Tasmania in Launceston. Williamstown's Gerry Callahan coached the team, and Sunshine's Shaun Crosbie was captain.


1964 VFL Grand Final
The 1964 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 19 September 1964. It was the 68th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1964 VFL season. The match, attended by 102,471 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 4 points, marking the club's 12th premiership victory.


1964 VFL Grand Final
This would be the last premiership won by Melbourne until 2021.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Background
Melbourne were competing in the finals for the 11th consecutive season. They were also playing in their eighth Grand Final in 11 seasons and fighting for their sixth Premiership in that time.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
With Melbourne leading by 11 points at the final break, the match is remembered for its thrilling last quarter. In the early stages, Melbourne had plenty of opportunities to kick goals but could only manage behinds, and it was Collingwood's Des Tuddenham who kicked the first goal of the term.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
Seventeen minutes into the quarter, Collingwood trailed by 9 points but were within a kick when Ray Gabelich kicked a goal from a boundary throw-in. Gabelich kicked another to put them in front soon afterwards, a goal that is now regarded as one of the most famous in grand final history. He had received the ball near centre half-forward, and, due to Melbourne having spent the previous minutes in their own forward line and Collingwood moving the ball upfield quickly, there were no defenders ahead of Gabelich. A 109 kg ruckman, Gabelich ran towards the goal, bounced the ball four times, nearly losing it on each occasion, and, with Melbourne players gaining on him, put it through the big sticks to take the lead in one of the VFL/AFL's most memorable Grand Final moments.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
Collingwood were now 3 points up and time-on was nearing. After the restart, Melbourne's Barry Bourke kicked the ball into their 50-metre arc, and it was marked by rover Hassa Mann. He was directly in front and only 20 metres out, but his shot for goal came off the side of his boot and could only manage a behind. Melbourne had another chance to win the game, however, when they kicked the ball towards the goal square. A big pack of players went for the ball, but it spilled to the ground, and Melbourne defender Neil Crompton gathered the ball and kicked a goal. It was his only goal of the season, and he had only been forward because he'd followed his opponent upfield.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
In the final minutes, Collingwood had the ball in their forward line. Collingwood's Ian Graham had a chance to goal with a difficult snap from the boundary but missed. Melbourne held on against intense pressure from Collingwood until the siren sounded, leaving Melbourne winners by 4 points.


1964 VFL Grand Final, Statistics, Goalkickers
For a long time, Terry Waters was credited with two goals in the grand final. In January 2020, historians reviewed the game and determined that one of Waters goals had been scored by Ian Graham instead, and the scorecard was amended. Waters admitted that he did not remember kicking one of his goals. Prior to the change, Waters was recognised as the outright leading Collingwood goalkicker for the year, with 43 goals, but the change brought a tie between Waters and Graham, on 42 apiece.