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1964 United States presidential election in Florida

Main article: 1964 United States presidential election

The 1964 United States presidential election in Florida was held November 3, 1964. All contemporary fifty states and the District of Columbia took part, and Florida voters selected fourteen electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Florida was the second-closest state won by Johnson, after Idaho.[1]

1964 United States presidential election in Florida
← 1960 November 3, 1964 1968 →
Turnout74% Decrease
 
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote 14 0
Popular vote 948,540 905,941
Percentage 51.15% 48.85%
County Results
President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate carried Charlotte County.[2]

Campaign

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A Lyndon B. Johnson campaign office in Key West.

Retirement communities further south who were supportive of Republicans in presidential elections over the previous fifteen years, were opposed to Barry Goldwater’s desire to privatize Social Security and his criticism of the United States' space program.[3][4]

Lyndon B. Johnson won Florida by 42,599 votes, a margin of 2.30%, or a swing of 5.32% from the 1960 result. Increased registration of black voters, which reached 51%, was crucial to Johnson regaining Florida. In the northern counties of Lafayette and Liberty, where no black people were registered, swings toward Goldwater reached over 100%.[5]

However, amidst a national Democratic landslide, Florida weighed in as a massive 20.28% more Republican than the nation at large, the most Republican Florida has ever been compared to the nation at large. Although Johnson carried 20 of the state's 67 counties, in only two of them, Monroe and Dade, did he exceed his nationwide vote share of 61.05%.[6]

Results

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Dot map of results by county
1964 United States presidential election in Florida[1]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas (incumbent) Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minnesota 948,540 51.15% 14 100.00%
Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona William E. Miller of New York 905,941 48.85% 0 0.00%
Total 1,854,841 100.00% 14 100.00%

Results by county

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County[7] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic 		Barry Goldwater
Republican 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # %
Alachua 13,483 54.73% 11,151 45.27% 2,332 9.46% 24,634
Baker 1,137 50.35% 1,121 49.65% 16 0.70% 2,258
Bay 7,846 37.91% 12,849 62.09% -5,003 -24.18% 20,695
Bradford 2,320 53.87% 1,987 46.13% 333 7.74% 4,307
Brevard 24,833 50.29% 24,551 49.71% 282 0.58% 49,384
Broward 68,406 44.51% 85,264 55.49% -16,858 -10.98% 153,670
Calhoun 980 35.34% 1,793 64.66% -813 -29.32% 2,773
Charlotte 4,831 53.71% 4,163 46.29% 668 7.42% 8,994
Citrus 2,521 51.98% 2,329 48.02% 192 3.96% 4,850
Clay 3,114 45.01% 3,805 54.99% -691 -9.98% 6,919
Collier 2,877 44.55% 3,581 55.45% -704 -10.90% 6,458
Columbia 3,249 43.94% 4,145 56.06% -896 -12.12% 7,394
Dade 208,941 64.01% 117,480 35.99% 91,461 28.02% 326,421
DeSoto 1,777 47.22% 1,986 52.78% -209 -5.56% 3,763
Dixie 923 50.41% 908 49.59% 15 0.82% 1,831
Duval 79,365 49.45% 81,116 50.55% -1,751 -1.10% 160,481
Escambia 25,371 43.91% 32,414 56.09% -7,043 -12.18% 57,785
Flagler 940 56.69% 718 43.31% 222 13.38% 1,658
Franklin 1,366 49.05% 1,419 50.95% -53 -1.90% 2,785
Gadsden 4,556 46.67% 5,207 53.33% -651 -6.66% 9,763
Gilchrist 711 56.83% 540 43.17% 171 13.66% 1,251
Glades 441 44.91% 541 55.09% -100 -10.18% 982
Gulf 1,659 45.33% 2,001 54.67% -342 -9.34% 3,660
Hamilton 1,302 52.93% 1,158 47.07% 144 5.86% 2,460
Hardee 1,908 45.12% 2,321 54.88% -413 -9.76% 4,229
Hendry 1,352 45.04% 1,650 54.96% -298 -9.92% 3,002
Hernando 2,320 49.82% 2,337 50.18% -17 -0.36% 4,657
Highlands 4,233 47.14% 4,747 52.86% -514 -5.72% 8,980
Hillsborough 71,289 58.48% 50,616 41.52% 20,673 16.96% 121,905
Holmes 1,193 27.00% 3,225 73.00% -2,032 -46.00% 4,418
Indian River 5,122 45.28% 6,191 54.72% -1,069 -9.44% 11,313
Jackson 4,386 38.31% 7,064 61.69% -2,678 -23.38% 11,450
Jefferson 1,504 47.18% 1,684 52.82% -180 -5.64% 3,188
Lafayette 545 45.68% 648 54.32% -103 -8.64% 1,193
Lake 7,773 37.61% 12,897 62.39% -5,124 -24.78% 20,670
Lee 10,204 44.19% 12,886 55.81% -2,682 -11.62% 23,090
Leon 10,927 41.85% 15,181 58.15% -4,254 -16.30% 26,108
Levy 1,986 55.69% 1,580 44.31% 406 11.38% 3,566
Liberty 377 29.29% 910 70.71% -533 -41.42% 1,287
Madison 2,121 42.91% 2,822 57.09% -701 -14.18% 4,943
Manatee 13,074 43.26% 17,147 56.74% -4,073 -13.48% 30,221
Marion 9,112 45.58% 10,879 54.42% -1,767 -8.84% 19,991
Martin 3,621 45.76% 4,292 54.24% -671 -8.48% 7,913
Monroe 8,936 64.86% 4,842 35.14% 4,094 29.72% 13,778
Nassau 2,781 47.02% 3,134 52.98% -353 -5.96% 5,915
Okaloosa 7,890 44.20% 9,961 55.80% -2,071 -11.60% 17,851
Okeechobee 1,016 43.57% 1,316 56.43% -300 -12.86% 2,332
Orange 38,248 43.90% 48,884 56.10% -10,636 -12.20% 87,132
Osceola 3,531 43.88% 4,516 56.12% -985 -12.24% 8,047
Palm Beach 43,836 46.91% 49,614 53.09% -5,778 -6.18% 93,450
Pasco 8,135 51.68% 7,606 48.32% 529 3.36% 15,741
Pinellas 98,381 55.02% 80,414 44.98% 17,967 10.04% 178,795
Polk 29,355 44.98% 35,906 55.02% -6,551 -10.04% 65,261
Putnam 4,995 49.62% 5,072 50.38% -77 -0.76% 10,067
St. Johns 4,357 36.90% 7,450 63.10% -3,093 -26.20% 11,807
St. Lucie 7,748 51.82% 7,204 48.18% 544 3.64% 14,952
Santa Rosa 3,570 37.37% 5,983 62.63% -2,413 -25.26% 9,553
Sarasota 13,937 38.87% 21,917 61.13% -7,980 -22.26% 35,854
Seminole 9,125 47.52% 10,078 52.48% -953 -4.96% 19,203
Sumter 2,259 58.07% 1,631 41.93% 628 16.14% 3,890
Suwannee 2,393 44.36% 3,002 55.64% -609 -11.28% 5,395
Taylor 1,708 39.09% 2,661 60.91% -953 -21.82% 4,369
Union 740 51.03% 710 48.97% 30 2.06% 1,450
Volusia 34,901 58.28% 24,988 41.72% 9,913 16.56% 59,889
Wakulla 753 37.22% 1,270 62.78% -517 -25.56% 2,023
Walton 2,449 39.49% 3,753 60.51% -1,304 -21.02% 6,202
Washington 1,500 35.50% 2,725 64.50% -1,225 -29.00% 4,225
Totals 948,540 51.15% 905,941 48.85% 42,599 2.30% 1,854,481

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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  1. ^ a b Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 224
  4. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 206.
  5. ^ Bullock, Charles S. and Gaddie, Ronald Keith; The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, p. 254 ISBN 0806185309
  6. ^ Bullock, Charles S. and Gaddie, Ronald Keith; The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, p. 254 ISBN 0806185309
  7. ^ Adams, Tom (1964). TABULATION OF OFFICIAL VOTES CAST IN THE GENERAL ELECTION: NOVEMBER 3, 1964 – via Internet Archive.

Works cited

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