1964 United States presidential election in Indiana
The 1964 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Before this election, Indiana had not voted Democratic since Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s 46-state landslide of 1936, although native son Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 only won by very narrow margins. The pre-election period in the Hoosier State was highlighted by a dramatic Democratic primary challenge from Alabama Governor George Wallace, who won considerable backlash white support in suburban areas.[3] However, Wallace lost by worse than one-to-two against solitary opponent Matthew E. Welsh in Indiana[4] and never had any hope of beating incumbent Lyndon Johnson in the presidential race.
Republican candidate Barry Goldwater naturally considered Indiana critical given its GOP loyalty and campaigned in the state during October, when he argued to a severely hostile reaction that America should use nuclear weapons on Vietnam.[5]
The state was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 55.98% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 43.56% of the popular vote.[6] Powerful hostility to Goldwater's leanings from its Yankee and Appalachia-influenced Northern and Southern regions[7] allowed Johnson to carry the state, although Indiana was still 10.16% more Republican than the nation at-large.
This would be the last time until 2008 that Indiana would vote for a Democrat in a presidential election.
This is the solitary occasion since the Civil War when Randolph County and Wabash County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[8] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Allen, Adams, Bartholomew, Brown, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fayette, Fountain, Franklin, Grant, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jay, Jennings, LaGrange County, Lawrence, Marshall, Miami, Montgomery County, Noble, Orange, Parke, Pulaski, Putnam, Ripley, Shelby, Tipton, Warren, Wells, White, and Whitley.[9]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) | 1,170,848 | 55.98% | |
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 911,118 | 43.56% | |
| Prohibition | E. Harold Munn | 8,266 | 0.40% | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 1,374 | 0.07% | |
| Total votes | 2,091,606 | 100% | ||
Results by county
| County | Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic |
Barry Morris Goldwater Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[11] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 6,637 | 60.48% | 4,230 | 38.55% | 106 | 0.97% | 2,407 | 21.94% | 10,973 |
| Allen | 50,706 | 50.53% | 49,284 | 49.11% | 363 | 0.36% | 1,422 | 1.42% | 100,353 |
| Bartholomew | 12,940 | 53.72% | 11,026 | 45.77% | 124 | 0.51% | 1,914 | 7.95% | 24,090 |
| Benton | 2,940 | 50.42% | 2,886 | 49.49% | 5 | 0.09% | 54 | 0.93% | 5,831 |
| Blackford | 4,210 | 61.65% | 2,552 | 37.37% | 67 | 0.98% | 1,658 | 24.28% | 6,829 |
| Boone | 6,716 | 47.36% | 7,419 | 52.32% | 46 | 0.32% | -703 | -4.96% | 14,181 |
| Brown | 2,135 | 60.24% | 1,390 | 39.22% | 19 | 0.54% | 745 | 21.02% | 3,544 |
| Carroll | 4,789 | 54.96% | 3,896 | 44.71% | 29 | 0.33% | 893 | 10.25% | 8,714 |
| Cass | 11,148 | 58.74% | 7,735 | 40.76% | 95 | 0.50% | 3,413 | 17.98% | 18,978 |
| Clark | 17,330 | 68.89% | 7,701 | 30.61% | 125 | 0.50% | 9,629 | 38.28% | 25,156 |
| Clay | 6,528 | 54.28% | 5,412 | 45.00% | 86 | 0.72% | 1,116 | 9.28% | 12,026 |
| Clinton | 8,353 | 53.61% | 7,157 | 45.93% | 72 | 0.46% | 1,196 | 7.68% | 15,582 |
| Crawford | 2,514 | 57.40% | 1,828 | 41.74% | 38 | 0.87% | 686 | 15.66% | 4,380 |
| Daviess | 6,528 | 50.62% | 6,319 | 49.00% | 48 | 0.37% | 209 | 1.62% | 12,895 |
| Dearborn | 7,699 | 58.33% | 5,473 | 41.47% | 26 | 0.20% | 2,226 | 16.87% | 13,198 |
| Decatur | 5,564 | 53.94% | 4,702 | 45.58% | 49 | 0.48% | 862 | 8.36% | 10,315 |
| De Kalb | 7,559 | 54.42% | 6,210 | 44.71% | 120 | 0.86% | 1,349 | 9.71% | 13,889 |
| Delaware | 28,469 | 58.48% | 20,022 | 41.13% | 187 | 0.38% | 8,447 | 17.35% | 48,678 |
| Dubois | 10,114 | 72.56% | 3,800 | 27.26% | 25 | 0.18% | 6,314 | 45.30% | 13,939 |
| Elkhart | 21,679 | 51.72% | 19,870 | 47.41% | 365 | 0.87% | 1,809 | 4.32% | 41,914 |
| Fayette | 6,713 | 58.92% | 4,637 | 40.70% | 43 | 0.38% | 2,076 | 18.22% | 11,393 |
| Floyd | 15,656 | 66.23% | 7,834 | 33.14% | 148 | 0.63% | 7,822 | 33.09% | 23,638 |
| Fountain | 5,574 | 54.23% | 4,666 | 45.40% | 38 | 0.37% | 908 | 8.83% | 10,278 |
| Franklin | 4,021 | 57.48% | 2,956 | 42.26% | 18 | 0.26% | 1,065 | 15.23% | 6,995 |
| Fulton | 4,374 | 49.60% | 4,410 | 50.01% | 34 | 0.39% | -36 | -0.41% | 8,818 |
| Gibson | 10,507 | 63.84% | 5,865 | 35.64% | 86 | 0.52% | 4,642 | 28.21% | 16,458 |
| Grant | 17,574 | 54.08% | 14,688 | 45.20% | 232 | 0.71% | 2,886 | 8.88% | 32,494 |
| Greene | 8,574 | 58.85% | 5,919 | 40.62% | 77 | 0.53% | 2,655 | 18.22% | 14,570 |
| Hamilton | 7,553 | 38.38% | 12,060 | 61.28% | 68 | 0.35% | -4,507 | -22.90% | 19,681 |
| Hancock | 6,573 | 50.59% | 6,370 | 49.03% | 50 | 0.38% | 203 | 1.56% | 12,993 |
| Harrison | 5,949 | 61.28% | 3,671 | 37.81% | 88 | 0.91% | 2,278 | 23.47% | 9,708 |
| Hendricks | 8,857 | 43.41% | 11,497 | 56.34% | 51 | 0.25% | -2,640 | -12.94% | 20,405 |
| Henry | 12,374 | 54.52% | 10,184 | 44.87% | 139 | 0.61% | 2,190 | 9.65% | 22,697 |
| Howard | 17,809 | 57.56% | 12,897 | 41.68% | 235 | 0.76% | 4,912 | 15.88% | 30,941 |
| Huntington | 9,308 | 55.26% | 7,438 | 44.16% | 98 | 0.58% | 1,870 | 11.10% | 16,844 |
| Jackson | 8,572 | 57.26% | 6,285 | 41.98% | 114 | 0.76% | 2,287 | 15.28% | 14,971 |
| Jasper | 3,995 | 46.91% | 4,497 | 52.81% | 24 | 0.28% | -502 | -5.89% | 8,516 |
| Jay | 6,781 | 59.91% | 4,439 | 39.22% | 98 | 0.87% | 2,342 | 20.69% | 11,318 |
| Jefferson | 6,694 | 57.78% | 4,808 | 41.50% | 84 | 0.73% | 1,886 | 16.28% | 11,586 |
| Jennings | 4,307 | 55.14% | 3,469 | 44.41% | 35 | 0.45% | 838 | 10.73% | 7,811 |
| Johnson | 10,099 | 48.87% | 10,472 | 50.68% | 92 | 0.45% | -373 | -1.81% | 20,663 |
| Knox | 12,678 | 62.11% | 7,612 | 37.29% | 121 | 0.59% | 5,066 | 24.82% | 20,411 |
| Kosciusko | 8,759 | 45.18% | 10,488 | 54.10% | 141 | 0.73% | -1,729 | -8.92% | 19,388 |
| Lagrange | 2,818 | 49.96% | 2,785 | 49.38% | 37 | 0.66% | 33 | 0.59% | 5,640 |
| Lake | 134,978 | 64.42% | 73,722 | 35.19% | 823 | 0.39% | 61,256 | 29.24% | 209,523 |
| La Porte | 22,220 | 57.57% | 16,270 | 42.16% | 104 | 0.27% | 5,950 | 15.42% | 38,594 |
| Lawrence | 8,677 | 51.17% | 8,186 | 48.28% | 93 | 0.55% | 491 | 2.90% | 16,956 |
| Madison | 33,325 | 57.73% | 24,171 | 41.87% | 233 | 0.40% | 9,154 | 15.86% | 57,729 |
| Marion | 152,418 | 51.43% | 143,015 | 48.25% | 948 | 0.32% | 9,403 | 3.17% | 296,381 |
| Marshall | 8,397 | 51.15% | 7,895 | 48.10% | 123 | 0.75% | 502 | 3.06% | 16,415 |
| Martin | 3,137 | 60.96% | 2,000 | 38.87% | 9 | 0.17% | 1,137 | 22.09% | 5,146 |
| Miami | 7,667 | 54.53% | 6,270 | 44.59% | 123 | 0.87% | 1,397 | 9.94% | 14,060 |
| Monroe | 11,918 | 53.27% | 10,309 | 46.08% | 145 | 0.65% | 1,609 | 7.19% | 22,372 |
| Montgomery | 8,042 | 50.48% | 7,823 | 49.11% | 65 | 0.41% | 219 | 1.37% | 15,930 |
| Morgan | 7,011 | 45.44% | 8,347 | 54.10% | 70 | 0.45% | -1,336 | -8.66% | 15,428 |
| Newton | 2,547 | 47.70% | 2,780 | 52.06% | 13 | 0.24% | -233 | -4.36% | 5,340 |
| Noble | 7,621 | 57.03% | 5,682 | 42.52% | 60 | 0.45% | 1,939 | 14.51% | 13,363 |
| Ohio | 1,397 | 60.53% | 905 | 39.21% | 6 | 0.26% | 492 | 21.32% | 2,308 |
| Orange | 4,490 | 51.55% | 4,187 | 48.07% | 33 | 0.38% | 303 | 3.48% | 8,710 |
| Owen | 3,339 | 54.20% | 2,788 | 45.26% | 33 | 0.54% | 551 | 8.94% | 6,160 |
| Parke | 4,034 | 52.93% | 3,570 | 46.84% | 17 | 0.22% | 464 | 6.09% | 7,621 |
| Perry | 6,226 | 66.65% | 3,090 | 33.08% | 25 | 0.27% | 3,136 | 33.57% | 9,341 |
| Pike | 4,519 | 62.14% | 2,703 | 37.17% | 50 | 0.69% | 1,816 | 24.97% | 7,272 |
| Porter | 12,975 | 47.00% | 14,480 | 52.45% | 152 | 0.55% | -1,505 | -5.45% | 27,607 |
| Posey | 6,164 | 63.09% | 3,573 | 36.57% | 33 | 0.34% | 2,591 | 26.52% | 9,770 |
| Pulaski | 3,408 | 51.37% | 3,202 | 48.27% | 24 | 0.36% | 206 | 3.11% | 6,634 |
| Putnam | 6,275 | 53.96% | 5,331 | 45.84% | 24 | 0.21% | 944 | 8.12% | 11,630 |
| Randolph | 6,804 | 50.38% | 6,551 | 48.50% | 151 | 1.12% | 253 | 1.87% | 13,506 |
| Ripley | 5,933 | 56.23% | 4,587 | 43.47% | 32 | 0.30% | 1,346 | 12.76% | 10,552 |
| Rush | 4,450 | 49.31% | 4,507 | 49.94% | 68 | 0.75% | -57 | -0.63% | 9,025 |
| St. Joseph | 65,844 | 61.91% | 39,872 | 37.49% | 630 | 0.59% | 25,972 | 24.42% | 106,346 |
| Scott | 4,205 | 67.79% | 1,992 | 32.11% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,213 | 35.68% | 6,203 |
| Shelby | 9,078 | 55.17% | 7,310 | 44.42% | 67 | 0.41% | 1,768 | 10.74% | 16,455 |
| Spencer | 4,834 | 54.72% | 3,980 | 45.05% | 20 | 0.23% | 854 | 9.67% | 8,834 |
| Starke | 4,838 | 58.14% | 3,466 | 41.65% | 17 | 0.20% | 1,372 | 16.49% | 8,321 |
| Steuben | 3,999 | 49.34% | 4,075 | 50.28% | 31 | 0.38% | -76 | -0.94% | 8,105 |
| Sullivan | 7,351 | 65.28% | 3,867 | 34.34% | 42 | 0.37% | 3,484 | 30.94% | 11,260 |
| Switzerland | 2,231 | 61.29% | 1,390 | 38.19% | 19 | 0.52% | 841 | 23.10% | 3,640 |
| Tippecanoe | 20,257 | 51.45% | 19,036 | 48.35% | 79 | 0.20% | 1,221 | 3.10% | 39,372 |
| Tipton | 4,410 | 53.03% | 3,863 | 46.45% | 43 | 0.52% | 547 | 6.58% | 8,316 |
| Union | 1,463 | 48.69% | 1,531 | 50.95% | 11 | 0.37% | -68 | -2.26% | 3,005 |
| Vanderburgh | 45,796 | 62.39% | 27,231 | 37.10% | 380 | 0.52% | 18,565 | 25.29% | 73,407 |
| Vermillion | 5,957 | 63.49% | 3,397 | 36.21% | 28 | 0.30% | 2,560 | 27.29% | 9,382 |
| Vigo | 27,606 | 59.05% | 19,001 | 40.64% | 144 | 0.31% | 8,605 | 18.41% | 46,751 |
| Wabash | 7,485 | 51.50% | 6,905 | 47.51% | 145 | 1.00% | 580 | 3.99% | 14,535 |
| Warren | 2,261 | 51.10% | 2,154 | 48.68% | 10 | 0.23% | 107 | 2.42% | 4,425 |
| Warrick | 7,222 | 62.04% | 4,376 | 37.59% | 42 | 0.36% | 2,846 | 24.45% | 11,640 |
| Washington | 4,943 | 57.66% | 3,598 | 41.97% | 32 | 0.37% | 1,345 | 15.69% | 8,573 |
| Wayne | 15,269 | 49.70% | 15,342 | 49.93% | 113 | 0.37% | -73 | -0.24% | 30,724 |
| Wells | 5,945 | 59.12% | 4,018 | 39.96% | 92 | 0.91% | 1,927 | 19.16% | 10,055 |
| White | 5,407 | 51.72% | 5,015 | 47.97% | 33 | 0.32% | 392 | 3.75% | 10,455 |
| Whitley | 5,798 | 53.95% | 4,896 | 45.56% | 53 | 0.49% | 902 | 8.39% | 10,747 |
| Totals | 1,170,848 | 55.98% | 911,118 | 43.56% | 9,640 | 0.46% | 259,730 | 12.42% | 2,091,606 |
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