Election Name: | 1964 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Country: | New Hampshire |
Flag Year: | 1931 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1960 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Previous Year: | 1960 |
Next Election: | 1968 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Next Year: | 1968 |
Image1: | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (R-MA) (cropped).jpg |
Candidate1: | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (write-in) |
Color1: | 73638c |
Home State1: | Massachusetts |
Popular Vote1: | 33,007 |
Percentage1: | 35.6% |
Candidate2: | Barry Goldwater |
Home State2: | Arizona |
Popular Vote2: | 20,692 |
Percentage2: | 22.3% |
Colour2: | a59400 |
Image4: | Governor Nelson Rockefeller (cropped2).png |
Image5: | Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff |
Colour5: | FF8080 |
Colour4: | 5d73e5 |
Candidate4: | Nelson Rockefeller |
Candidate5: | Richard Nixon (write-in) |
Home State4: | New York |
Home State5: | California |
Popular Vote4: | 19,504 |
Popular Vote5: | 15,587 |
Percentage4: | 21.0% |
Percentage5: | 16.8% |
See main article: 1964 Republican Party presidential primaries.
The 1964 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 10, 1964, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1964 United States presidential election. Former Massachusetts senator, Ambassador to the United Nations, and running mate to Richard Nixon in the 1960 election Henry Cabot Lodge Jr won as a write-in candidate with 36% of the vote.[1] Behind him in second place was eventual 1964 GOP nominee Barry Goldwater, who finished with 22% of the vote. In third place was Nelson Rockefeller of New York and in fourth was Richard Nixon, who was also a write-in and did not contend for the nomination.[2] [3]