See main article: 1964 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Country: | Minnesota |
| Flag Year: | 1957 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1960 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Previous Year: | 1960 |
| Next Election: | 1968 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
| Turnout: | 76.33%[1] |
| Election Date: | November 3, 1964 |
| Image1: | 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Party1: | Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party |
| Home State1: | Texas |
| Running Mate1: | Hubert Humphrey |
| Electoral Vote1: | 10 |
| Popular Vote1: | 991,117 |
| Percentage1: | 63.76% |
| Nominee2: | Barry Goldwater |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Arizona |
| Running Mate2: | William E. Miller |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 559,624 |
| Percentage2: | 36.02% |
| Map Size: | 320px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Minnesota was won by the 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.
In the 1964 election, President Johnson carried Minnesota by a margin of victory that hadn't been seen in a presidential election in the state since Franklin D. Roosevelt carried the state by a margin of 30.83% over Alf Landon in 1936. This margin of victory was aided by the fact that Hubert Humphrey, the state's incumbent U.S. Senator, was on the Democratic ticket for vice president.
To date Johnson's performance is the best ever for a Democrat in Minnesota, in fact, no presidential candidate has since obtained more than 55% of the state's vote in a presidential election., this is the last election in which Brown County, Redwood County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Olmsted County would not vote Democratic again until 2008.[2]
| 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota[3] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Democratic (DFL) | Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) | 991,117 | 63.76% | 10 | ||
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 559,624 | 36.00% | 0 | ||
| Industrial Government | Eric Hass | 2,544 | 0.16% | 0 | ||
| Socialist Workers | Clifton DeBerry | 1,177 | 0.08% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1,554,462 | 100.00% | 10 | |||
| Voter turnout | 76% | — | ||||
| County | Lyndon B. Johnson DFL | Barry Goldwater Republican | Eric Hass[4] Industrial Government | Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Aitkin | 3,874 | 65.77% | 2,000 | 33.96% | 9 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.12% | 1,874 | 31.81% | 5,890 | ||||||||||||
| Anoka | 31,714 | 70.47% | 13,201 | 29.33% | 47 | 0.10% | 43 | 0.10% | 18,513 | 41.14% | 45,005 | ||||||||||||
| Becker | 6,453 | 63.14% | 3,751 | 36.70% | 6 | 0.06% | 10 | 0.10% | 2,702 | 26.44% | 10,220 | ||||||||||||
| Beltrami | 5,967 | 65.10% | 3,184 | 34.74% | 9 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.07% | 2,783 | 30.36% | 9,166 | ||||||||||||
| Benton | 4,679 | 62.22% | 2,818 | 37.47% | 20 | 0.27% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,861 | 24.75% | 7,520 | ||||||||||||
| Big Stone | 2,831 | 67.86% | 1,331 | 31.90% | 9 | 0.22% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,500 | 35.96% | 4,172 | ||||||||||||
| Blue Earth | 10,687 | 56.85% | 8,009 | 42.61% | 96 | 0.51% | 5 | 0.03% | 2,678 | 14.24% | 18,797 | ||||||||||||
| Brown | 6,069 | 50.84% | 5,851 | 49.02% | 10 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.06% | 218 | 1.82% | 11,937 | ||||||||||||
| Carlton | 9,552 | 77.29% | 2,780 | 22.49% | 13 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.11% | 6,772 | 54.80% | 12,359 | ||||||||||||
| Carver | 5,123 | 48.52% | 5,424 | 51.37% | 4 | 0.04% | 7 | 0.07% | -301 | -2.85% | 10,558 | ||||||||||||
| Cass | 4,635 | 59.78% | 3,110 | 40.11% | 7 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,525 | 19.67% | 7,754 | ||||||||||||
| Chippewa | 4,550 | 61.78% | 2,806 | 38.10% | 6 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,744 | 23.68% | 7,365 | ||||||||||||
| Chisago | 4,347 | 63.10% | 2,525 | 36.65% | 9 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,822 | 26.45% | 6,889 | ||||||||||||
| Clay | 10,161 | 62.39% | 6,085 | 37.37% | 35 | 0.21% | 4 | 0.02% | 4,076 | 25.02% | 16,285 | ||||||||||||
| Clearwater | 2,596 | 69.43% | 1,137 | 30.41% | 2 | 0.05% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,459 | 39.02% | 3,739 | ||||||||||||
| Cook | 976 | 56.03% | 764 | 43.86% | 2 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 212 | 12.17% | 1,742 | ||||||||||||
| Cottonwood | 4,090 | 54.33% | 3,423 | 45.47% | 9 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.08% | 667 | 8.86% | 7,528 | ||||||||||||
| Crow Wing | 9,197 | 64.10% | 5,131 | 35.76% | 9 | 0.06% | 12 | 0.08% | 4,066 | 28.34% | 14,349 | ||||||||||||
| Dakota | 28,391 | 67.07% | 13,856 | 32.73% | 64 | 0.15% | 17 | 0.04% | 14,535 | 34.34% | 42,328 | ||||||||||||
| Dodge | 3,138 | 55.84% | 2,474 | 44.02% | 6 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.04% | 664 | 11.82% | 5,620 | ||||||||||||
| Douglas | 6,040 | 59.36% | 4,122 | 40.51% | 8 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.05% | 1,918 | 18.85% | 10,175 | ||||||||||||
| Faribault | 5,946 | 55.18% | 4,817 | 44.71% | 8 | 0.07% | 4 | 0.04% | 1,129 | 10.47% | 10,775 | ||||||||||||
| Fillmore | 5,813 | 54.58% | 4,824 | 45.29% | 11 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.03% | 989 | 9.29% | 10,651 | ||||||||||||
| Freeborn | 10,554 | 63.16% | 6,136 | 36.72% | 16 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.02% | 4,418 | 26.44% | 16,709 | ||||||||||||
| Goodhue | 9,035 | 57.96% | 6,539 | 41.95% | 9 | 0.06% | 6 | 0.04% | 2,496 | 16.01% | 15,589 | ||||||||||||
| Grant | 2,631 | 60.26% | 1,734 | 39.72% | 1 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 897 | 20.54% | 4,366 | ||||||||||||
| Hennepin | 241,020 | 60.75% | 154,736 | 39.00% | 623 | 0.16% | 348 | 0.09% | 86,284 | 21.75% | 396,727 | ||||||||||||
| Houston | 3,885 | 53.03% | 3,433 | 46.86% | 7 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 452 | 6.17% | 7,326 | ||||||||||||
| Hubbard | 2,553 | 52.72% | 2,283 | 47.14% | 6 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 270 | 5.58% | 4,843 | ||||||||||||
| Isanti | 4,026 | 66.90% | 1,982 | 32.93% | 3 | 0.05% | 7 | 0.12% | 2,044 | 33.97% | 6,018 | ||||||||||||
| Itasca | 12,054 | 74.27% | 4,137 | 25.49% | 19 | 0.12% | 21 | 0.13% | 7,917 | 48.78% | 16,231 | ||||||||||||
| Jackson | 4,576 | 65.18% | 2,441 | 34.77% | 4 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,135 | 30.41% | 7,021 | ||||||||||||
| Kanabec | 2,666 | 66.25% | 1,348 | 33.50% | 5 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,318 | 32.75% | 4,024 | ||||||||||||
| Kandiyohi | 9,108 | 69.23% | 4,011 | 30.49% | 25 | 0.19% | 12 | 0.09% | 5,097 | 38.74% | 13,156 | ||||||||||||
| Kittson | 2,790 | 70.72% | 1,153 | 29.23% | 2 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,637 | 41.49% | 3,945 | ||||||||||||
| Koochiching | 5,878 | 78.47% | 1,602 | 21.39% | 6 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.07% | 4,276 | 57.08% | 7,491 | ||||||||||||
| Lac qui Parle | 3,934 | 63.66% | 2,236 | 36.18% | 5 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.08% | 1,698 | 27.48% | 6,180 | ||||||||||||
| Lake | 4,704 | 79.39% | 1,205 | 20.34% | 8 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.14% | 3,499 | 59.05% | 5,925 | ||||||||||||
| Lake of the Woods | 1,266 | 71.73% | 489 | 27.71% | 5 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.28% | 777 | 44.02% | 1,765 | ||||||||||||
| Le Sueur | 6,117 | 65.60% | 3,191 | 34.22% | 12 | 0.13% | 5 | 0.05% | 2,926 | 31.38% | 9,325 | ||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 3,024 | 68.29% | 1,393 | 31.46% | 2 | 0.05% | 9 | 0.20% | 1,631 | 36.83% | 4,428 | ||||||||||||
| Lyon | 6,649 | 67.69% | 3,165 | 32.22% | 7 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,484 | 35.47% | 9,822 | ||||||||||||
| Mahnomen | 1,967 | 75.11% | 648 | 24.74% | 3 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,319 | 50.37% | 2,619 | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | 4,594 | 70.79% | 1,893 | 29.17% | 2 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,701 | 41.62% | 6,490 | ||||||||||||
| Martin | 5,575 | 45.98% | 6,529 | 53.84% | 14 | 0.12% | 8 | 0.07% | -954 | -7.86% | 12,126 | ||||||||||||
| McLeod | 5,755 | 50.86% | 5,545 | 49.00% | 9 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.06% | 210 | 1.86% | 11,316 | ||||||||||||
| Meeker | 5,270 | 62.90% | 3,099 | 36.99% | 7 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,171 | 25.91% | 8,378 | ||||||||||||
| Mille Lacs | 4,369 | 63.58% | 2,474 | 36.00% | 15 | 0.22% | 14 | 0.20% | 1,895 | 27.58% | 6,872 | ||||||||||||
| Morrison | 7,492 | 67.91% | 3,515 | 31.86% | 16 | 0.15% | 9 | 0.08% | 3,977 | 36.05% | 11,032 | ||||||||||||
| Mower | 12,573 | 65.69% | 6,510 | 34.01% | 43 | 0.22% | 14 | 0.07% | 6,063 | 31.68% | 19,140 | ||||||||||||
| Murray | 3,822 | 62.13% | 2,325 | 37.79% | 5 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,497 | 24.34% | 6,152 | ||||||||||||
| Nicollet | 5,121 | 58.62% | 3,605 | 41.27% | 4 | 0.05% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,516 | 17.35% | 8,736 | ||||||||||||
| Nobles | 6,431 | 64.57% | 3,517 | 35.31% | 9 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.03% | 2,914 | 29.26% | 9,960 | ||||||||||||
| Norman | 3,631 | 68.50% | 1,662 | 31.35% | 5 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,969 | 37.15% | 5,301 | ||||||||||||
| Olmsted | 16,195 | 55.94% | 12,699 | 43.87% | 47 | 0.16% | 9 | 0.03% | 3,496 | 12.07% | 28,950 | ||||||||||||
| Otter Tail | 9,997 | 48.61% | 10,542 | 51.26% | 17 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.04% | -545 | -2.65% | 20,565 | ||||||||||||
| Pennington | 3,894 | 70.37% | 1,630 | 29.45% | 3 | 0.05% | 7 | 0.13% | 2,264 | 40.92% | 5,534 | ||||||||||||
| Pine | 5,123 | 69.04% | 2,279 | 30.71% | 10 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.11% | 2,844 | 38.33% | 7,420 | ||||||||||||
| Pipestone | 3,365 | 57.51% | 2,481 | 42.40% | 3 | 0.05% | 2 | 0.03% | 884 | 15.11% | 5,851 | ||||||||||||
| Polk | 11,053 | 68.60% | 5,039 | 31.27% | 11 | 0.07% | 9 | 0.06% | 6,014 | 37.33% | 16,112 | ||||||||||||
| Pope | 3,549 | 61.57% | 2,213 | 38.39% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,336 | 23.18% | 5,764 | ||||||||||||
| Ramsey | 133,948 | 69.91% | 56,898 | 29.70% | 579 | 0.30% | 167 | 0.09% | 77,050 | 40.21% | 191,592 | ||||||||||||
| Red Lake | 1,861 | 75.96% | 573 | 23.39% | 9 | 0.37% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,288 | 52.57% | 2,450 | ||||||||||||
| Redwood | 4,722 | 50.90% | 4,546 | 49.00% | 5 | 0.05% | 4 | 0.04% | 176 | 1.90% | 9,277 | ||||||||||||
| Renville | 6,072 | 58.18% | 4,340 | 41.58% | 14 | 0.13% | 11 | 0.11% | 1,732 | 16.60% | 10,437 | ||||||||||||
| Rice | 9,299 | 62.65% | 5,518 | 37.18% | 18 | 0.12% | 8 | 0.05% | 3,781 | 25.47% | 14,843 | ||||||||||||
| Rock | 2,896 | 54.78% | 2,389 | 45.19% | 2 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 507 | 9.59% | 5,287 | ||||||||||||
| Roseau | 3,636 | 68.69% | 1,651 | 31.19% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,985 | 37.50% | 5,293 | ||||||||||||
| St. Louis | 79,529 | 75.61% | 25,246 | 24.00% | 275 | 0.26% | 133 | 0.13% | 54,283 | 51.61% | 105,183 | ||||||||||||
| Scott | 7,248 | 68.57% | 3,311 | 31.32% | 9 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.02% | 3,937 | 37.25% | 10,570 | ||||||||||||
| Sherburne | 3,787 | 63.75% | 2,132 | 35.89% | 17 | 0.29% | 4 | 0.07% | 1,655 | 27.86% | 5,940 | ||||||||||||
| Sibley | 3,577 | 48.10% | 3,854 | 51.83% | 3 | 0.04% | 2 | 0.03% | -277 | -3.73% | 7,436 | ||||||||||||
| Stearns | 19,063 | 59.26% | 13,009 | 40.44% | 58 | 0.18% | 36 | 0.11% | 6,054 | 18.82% | 32,166 | ||||||||||||
| Steele | 6,022 | 55.05% | 4,882 | 44.63% | 27 | 0.25% | 8 | 0.07% | 1,140 | 10.42% | 10,939 | ||||||||||||
| Stevens | 2,910 | 56.65% | 2,220 | 43.22% | 6 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 690 | 13.43% | 5,137 | ||||||||||||
| Swift | 4,380 | 67.14% | 2,132 | 32.68% | 6 | 0.09% | 6 | 0.09% | 2,248 | 34.46% | 6,524 | ||||||||||||
| Todd | 5,673 | 58.47% | 4,006 | 41.29% | 17 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.06% | 1,667 | 17.18% | 9,702 | ||||||||||||
| Traverse | 2,247 | 67.64% | 1,073 | 32.30% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,174 | 35.34% | 3,322 | ||||||||||||
| Wabasha | 4,367 | 58.20% | 3,133 | 41.75% | 3 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,234 | 16.45% | 7,504 | ||||||||||||
| Wadena | 2,908 | 54.52% | 2,418 | 45.33% | 7 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.02% | 490 | 9.19% | 5,334 | ||||||||||||
| Waseca | 3,633 | 50.34% | 3,570 | 49.47% | 10 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.06% | 63 | 0.87% | 7,217 | ||||||||||||
| Washington | 18,108 | 67.01% | 8,850 | 32.75% | 43 | 0.16% | 21 | 0.08% | 9,258 | 34.26% | 27,022 | ||||||||||||
| Watonwan | 3,615 | 56.09% | 2,823 | 43.80% | 5 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.03% | 792 | 12.29% | 6,445 | ||||||||||||
| Wilkin | 2,751 | 62.65% | 1,636 | 37.26% | 1 | 0.02% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,115 | 25.39% | 4,391 | ||||||||||||
| Winona | 11,397 | 64.14% | 6,345 | 35.71% | 21 | 0.12% | 7 | 0.04% | 5,052 | 28.43% | 17,770 | ||||||||||||
| Wright | 8,687 | 61.24% | 5,476 | 38.60% | 14 | 0.10% | 8 | 0.06% | 3,211 | 22.64% | 14,185 | ||||||||||||
| Yellow Medicine | 4,707 | 63.06% | 2,751 | 36.86% | 5 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,956 | 26.20% | 7,464 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 991,117 | 63.76% | 559,624 | 36.00% | 2,544 | 0.16% | 1,177 | 0.08% | 431,493 | 27.76% | 1,554,462 | ||||||||||||