See main article: 1964 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina |
| Country: | North Carolina |
| Flag Year: | 1900 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1960 United States presidential election in North Carolina |
| Previous Year: | 1960 |
| Next Election: | 1968 United States presidential election in North Carolina |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
| Turnout: | 74% |
| Election Date: | November 3, 1964 |
| Image1: | File:37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Texas |
| Running Mate1: | Hubert Humphrey |
| Electoral Vote1: | 13 |
| Popular Vote1: | 800,139 |
| Percentage1: | 56.15% |
| Nominee2: | Barry Goldwater |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Arizona |
| Running Mate2: | William E. Miller |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 624,844 |
| Percentage2: | 43.85% |
| 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 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.
Polling initially showed Goldwater leading in North Carolina, but his farm policies, particularly his opposition to federal tobacco price support, hurt his campaign.
, this is the last election when the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Wayne, Moore, and Lenoir.[1]
| 1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) | 800,139 | 56.15% | 13 | ||
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 624,844 | 43.85% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1,424,983 | 100.0% | 13 | |||
| Voter turnout | — | |||||
| County[3] | Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic | Barry Goldwater Republican | Margin | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | ||||||
| Alamance | 15,397 | 50.36% | 15,177 | 49.64% | 220 | 0.72% | 30,574 | |
| Alexander | 3,722 | 49.75% | 3,760 | 50.25% | −38 | −0.50% | 7,482 | |
| Alleghany | 2,368 | 60.09% | 1,573 | 39.91% | 795 | 20.18% | 3,941 | |
| Anson | 4,144 | 70.66% | 1,721 | 29.34% | 2,423 | 41.32% | 5,865 | |
| Ashe | 4,965 | 54.64% | 4,121 | 45.36% | 844 | 9.28% | 9,086 | |
| Avery | 1,523 | 36.44% | 2,656 | 63.56% | −1,133 | −27.12% | 4,179 | |
| Beaufort | 6,090 | 62.88% | 3,595 | 37.12% | 2,495 | 25.76% | 9,685 | |
| Bertie | 3,332 | 78.16% | 931 | 21.84% | 2,401 | 56.32% | 4,263 | |
| Bladen | 4,516 | 67.55% | 2,169 | 32.45% | 2,347 | 35.10% | 6,685 | |
| Brunswick | 4,240 | 53.26% | 3,721 | 46.74% | 519 | 6.52% | 7,961 | |
| Buncombe | 31,623 | 62.01% | 19,372 | 37.99% | 12,251 | 24.02% | 50,995 | |
| Burke | 12,815 | 55.97% | 10,081 | 44.03% | 2,734 | 11.94% | 22,896 | |
| Cabarrus | 11,921 | 47.50% | 13,178 | 52.50% | −1,257 | −5.00% | 25,099 | |
| Caldwell | 10,846 | 55.40% | 8,733 | 44.60% | 2,113 | 10.80% | 19,579 | |
| Camden | 870 | 61.97% | 534 | 38.03% | 336 | 23.94% | 1,404 | |
| Carteret | 6,231 | 59.23% | 4,289 | 40.77% | 1,942 | 18.46% | 10,520 | |
| Caswell | 2,513 | 58.36% | 1,793 | 41.64% | 720 | 16.72% | 4,306 | |
| Catawba | 15,814 | 48.02% | 17,116 | 51.98% | −1,302 | −3.96% | 32,930 | |
| Chatham | 5,295 | 56.29% | 4,111 | 43.71% | 1,184 | 12.58% | 9,406 | |
| Cherokee | 3,823 | 55.90% | 3,016 | 44.10% | 807 | 11.80% | 6,839 | |
| Chowan | 1,696 | 68.30% | 787 | 31.70% | 909 | 36.60% | 2,483 | |
| Clay | 1,457 | 53.12% | 1,286 | 46.88% | 171 | 6.24% | 2,743 | |
| Cleveland | 10,836 | 57.92% | 7,874 | 42.08% | 2,962 | 15.84% | 18,710 | |
| Columbus | 9,004 | 66.82% | 4,471 | 33.18% | 4,533 | 33.64% | 13,475 | |
| Craven | 7,422 | 61.27% | 4,691 | 38.73% | 2,731 | 22.54% | 12,113 | |
| Cumberland | 13,864 | 60.39% | 9,093 | 39.61% | 4,771 | 20.78% | 22,957 | |
| Currituck | 1,455 | 66.26% | 741 | 33.74% | 714 | 32.52% | 2,196 | |
| Dare | 1,476 | 63.00% | 867 | 37.00% | 609 | 26.00% | 2,343 | |
| Davidson | 13,735 | 44.27% | 17,292 | 55.73% | −3,557 | −11.46% | 31,027 | |
| Davie | 3,086 | 40.90% | 4,460 | 59.10% | −1,374 | −18.20% | 7,546 | |
| Duplin | 7,169 | 65.23% | 3,821 | 34.77% | 3,348 | 30.46% | 10,990 | |
| Durham | 22,874 | 59.98% | 15,264 | 40.02% | 7,610 | 19.96% | 38,138 | |
| Edgecombe | 7,834 | 66.58% | 3,932 | 33.42% | 3,902 | 33.16% | 11,766 | |
| Forsyth | 31,615 | 51.08% | 30,276 | 48.92% | 1,339 | 2.16% | 61,891 | |
| Franklin | 4,554 | 68.47% | 2,097 | 31.53% | 2,457 | 36.94% | 6,651 | |
| Gaston | 20,197 | 54.11% | 17,129 | 45.89% | 3,068 | 8.22% | 37,326 | |
| Gates | 1,702 | 75.38% | 556 | 24.62% | 1,146 | 50.76% | 2,258 | |
| Graham | 1,737 | 55.41% | 1,398 | 44.59% | 339 | 10.82% | 3,135 | |
| Granville | 4,596 | 63.66% | 2,624 | 36.34% | 1,972 | 27.32% | 7,220 | |
| Greene | 2,712 | 75.06% | 901 | 24.94% | 1,811 | 50.12% | 3,613 | |
| Guilford | 39,969 | 52.87% | 35,635 | 47.13% | 4,334 | 5.74% | 75,604 | |
| Halifax | 8,952 | 65.30% | 4,757 | 34.70% | 4,195 | 30.60% | 13,709 | |
| Harnett | 7,477 | 55.97% | 5,883 | 44.03% | 1,594 | 11.94% | 13,360 | |
| Haywood | 10,664 | 65.67% | 5,575 | 34.33% | 5,089 | 31.34% | 16,239 | |
| Henderson | 6,066 | 40.86% | 8,780 | 59.14% | −2,714 | −18.28% | 14,846 | |
| Hertford | 3,953 | 79.91% | 994 | 20.09% | 2,959 | 59.82% | 4,947 | |
| Hoke | 2,254 | 74.32% | 779 | 25.68% | 1,475 | 48.64% | 3,033 | |
| Hyde | 1,127 | 68.68% | 514 | 31.32% | 613 | 37.36% | 1,641 | |
| Iredell | 11,231 | 46.56% | 12,892 | 53.44% | −1,661 | −6.88% | 24,123 | |
| Jackson | 4,905 | 60.65% | 3,183 | 39.35% | 1,722 | 21.30% | 8,088 | |
| Johnston | 10,326 | 57.85% | 7,523 | 42.15% | 2,803 | 15.70% | 17,849 | |
| Jones | 2,129 | 73.29% | 776 | 26.71% | 1,353 | 46.58% | 2,905 | |
| Lee | 4,730 | 63.21% | 2,753 | 36.79% | 1,977 | 26.42% | 7,483 | |
| Lenoir | 7,617 | 57.56% | 5,617 | 42.44% | 2,000 | 15.12% | 13,234 | |
| Lincoln | 7,304 | 55.45% | 5,869 | 44.55% | 1,435 | 10.90% | 13,173 | |
| Macon | 3,774 | 56.55% | 2,900 | 43.45% | 874 | 13.10% | 6,674 | |
| Madison | 3,829 | 53.44% | 3,336 | 46.56% | 493 | 6.88% | 7,165 | |
| Martin | 4,821 | 76.14% | 1,511 | 23.86% | 3,310 | 52.28% | 6,332 | |
| McDowell | 6,314 | 60.20% | 4,174 | 39.80% | 2,140 | 20.40% | 10,488 | |
| Mecklenburg | 49,582 | 51.56% | 46,589 | 48.44% | 2,993 | 3.12% | 96,171 | |
| Mitchell | 1,736 | 34.73% | 3,263 | 65.27% | −1,527 | −30.54% | 4,999 | |
| Montgomery | 3,933 | 53.74% | 3,385 | 46.26% | 548 | 7.48% | 7,318 | |
| Moore | 6,384 | 55.29% | 5,162 | 44.71% | 1,222 | 10.58% | 11,546 | |
| Nash | 9,163 | 58.89% | 6,396 | 41.11% | 2,767 | 17.78% | 15,559 | |
| New Hanover | 12,584 | 50.90% | 12,140 | 49.10% | 444 | 1.80% | 24,724 | |
| Northampton | 5,046 | 80.96% | 1,187 | 19.04% | 3,859 | 61.92% | 6,233 | |
| Onslow | 5,955 | 61.23% | 3,771 | 38.77% | 2,184 | 22.46% | 9,726 | |
| Orange | 9,206 | 61.41% | 5,785 | 38.59% | 3,421 | 22.82% | 14,991 | |
| Pamlico | 1,864 | 64.30% | 1,035 | 35.70% | 829 | 28.60% | 2,899 | |
| Pasquotank | 4,269 | 64.21% | 2,380 | 35.79% | 1,889 | 28.42% | 6,649 | |
| Pender | 3,205 | 62.04% | 1,961 | 37.96% | 1,244 | 24.08% | 5,166 | |
| Perquimans | 1,458 | 60.78% | 941 | 39.22% | 517 | 21.56% | 2,399 | |
| Person | 4,740 | 68.68% | 2,162 | 31.32% | 2,578 | 37.36% | 6,902 | |
| Pitt | 11,317 | 68.73% | 5,149 | 31.27% | 6,168 | 37.46% | 16,466 | |
| Polk | 3,017 | 52.18% | 2,765 | 47.82% | 252 | 4.36% | 5,782 | |
| Randolph | 10,638 | 43.64% | 13,739 | 56.36% | −3,101 | −12.72% | 24,377 | |
| Richmond | 8,516 | 73.17% | 3,123 | 26.83% | 5,393 | 46.34% | 11,639 | |
| Robeson | 13,796 | 79.35% | 3,591 | 20.65% | 10,205 | 58.70% | 17,387 | |
| Rockingham | 11,432 | 55.78% | 9,063 | 44.22% | 2,369 | 11.56% | 20,495 | |
| Rowan | 14,934 | 50.22% | 14,804 | 49.78% | 130 | 0.44% | 29,738 | |
| Rutherford | 9,541 | 57.28% | 7,115 | 42.72% | 2,426 | 14.56% | 16,656 | |
| Sampson | 8,067 | 51.38% | 7,634 | 48.62% | 433 | 2.76% | 15,701 | |
| Scotland | 3,844 | 75.77% | 1,229 | 24.23% | 2,615 | 51.54% | 5,073 | |
| Stanly | 7,931 | 47.05% | 8,924 | 52.95% | −993 | −5.90% | 16,855 | |
| Stokes | 4,898 | 51.22% | 4,664 | 48.78% | 234 | 2.44% | 9,562 | |
| Surry | 9,810 | 55.17% | 7,970 | 44.83% | 1,840 | 10.34% | 17,780 | |
| Swain | 2,294 | 59.93% | 1,534 | 40.07% | 760 | 19.86% | 3,828 | |
| Transylvania | 4,483 | 55.83% | 3,547 | 44.17% | 936 | 11.66% | 8,030 | |
| Tyrrell | 996 | 72.70% | 374 | 27.30% | 622 | 45.40% | 1,370 | |
| Union | 7,208 | 63.02% | 4,229 | 36.98% | 2,979 | 26.04% | 11,437 | |
| Vance | 5,186 | 60.04% | 3,452 | 39.96% | 1,734 | 20.08% | 8,638 | |
| Wake | 31,653 | 58.41% | 22,542 | 41.59% | 9,111 | 16.82% | 54,195 | |
| Warren | 2,849 | 59.88% | 1,909 | 40.12% | 940 | 19.76% | 4,758 | |
| Washington | 2,505 | 68.65% | 1,144 | 31.35% | 1,361 | 37.30% | 3,649 | |
| Watauga | 4,031 | 50.62% | 3,932 | 49.38% | 99 | 1.24% | 7,963 | |
| Wayne | 9,791 | 56.45% | 7,555 | 43.55% | 2,236 | 12.90% | 17,346 | |
| Wilkes | 9,176 | 45.45% | 11,014 | 54.55% | −1,838 | −9.10% | 20,190 | |
| Wilson | 7,238 | 59.13% | 5,002 | 40.87% | 2,236 | 18.26% | 12,240 | |
| Yadkin | 3,638 | 38.30% | 5,860 | 61.70% | −2,222 | −23.40% | 9,498 | |
| Yancey | 3,714 | 64.95% | 2,004 | 35.05% | 1,710 | 29.90% | 5,718 | |
| Totals | 800,139 | 56.15% | 624,844 | 43.85% | 175,295 | 12.30% | 1,424,983 | |