United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1964

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1964

November 3, 1964

Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater Party Democratic Republican Home state Texas Arizona Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller Electoral vote 17 0 Popular vote 1,867,671 963,843 Percentage 65.6% 33.9%

County Results   Johnson—70-80%   Johnson—60-70%   Johnson—50-60%

President before election Lyndon Johnson Democratic Elected President Lyndon Johnson Democratic

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. New Jersey voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

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.

Johnson carried New Jersey in a landslide with 65.61% of the vote to Goldwater's 33.86%, a margin of 31.75%. ^[1]

Johnson also swept all 21 of New Jersey's counties, the first time a Democratic presidential nominee had ever done so. Johnson broke 60% of the vote in 15 counties, and also broke 70% of the vote in 4 of them: Hudson County, Mercer County, Middlesex County, and Cumberland County, falling just short of the mark in Essex County, where Johnson received 69.9%. Hudson County 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%.

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.

Results

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1964
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	1,867,671	65.61%	17
	Republican	Barry Goldwater	963,843	33.86%	0
	Socialist Workers	Clifton DeBerry	8,181	0.29%	0
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	7,075	0.25%	0
Totals			2,846,770	100.0%	17
Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered)					69%/88%

See also

• Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

References

1. "1964 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 25 November 2013.