The 1964 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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County Results
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Kansas was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.09 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.06 percent of the popular vote.[3][4]
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last time the Democratic candidate won Kansas, as well as the following counties: Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geary, Gove, Grant, Harvey, Haskell, Kearny, Lane, Lyon, McPherson, Montgomery, Morton, Nemaha, Neosho, Osage, Ottawa, Pratt, Russell, Saline, Sedgwick, Sheridan, Sherman, Stanton, Stevens, Thomas and Trego.[5]
To date Johnson’s 54.09 percent remains the best Democratic presidential performance in Kansas history, although the margin is smaller than Franklin Roosevelt's win in 1932.
Results
editPresidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
Lyndon B. Johnson | Democrat | Texas | 464,028 | 54.09% | 7 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Minnesota | 7 |
Barry M. Goldwater | Republican | Arizona | 386,579 | 45.06% | 0 | William E. Miller | New York | 0 |
E. Harold Munn | Prohibition | Michigan | 5,393 | 0.63% | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Eric Hass | Labor | California | 1,901 | 0.22% | 0 | Henning A. Blomen | Massachusetts | 0 |
Total | 857,901 | 100% | 7 | 7 | ||||
Needed to win | 270 | 270 |
Results by county
editCounty[6] | Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic |
Barry Goldwater Republican |
E. Harold Munn Prohibition |
Eric Hass Labor |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Allen | 3,369 | 53.89% | 2,841 | 45.44% | 30 | 0.48% | 12 | 0.19% | 528 | 8.45% | 6,252 |
Anderson | 2,058 | 54.44% | 1,692 | 44.76% | 16 | 0.42% | 14 | 0.37% | 366 | 9.68% | 3,780 |
Atchison | 5,037 | 61.21% | 3,147 | 38.24% | 24 | 0.29% | 21 | 0.26% | 1,890 | 22.97% | 8,229 |
Barber | 1,845 | 50.91% | 1,758 | 48.51% | 11 | 0.30% | 10 | 0.28% | 87 | 2.40% | 3,624 |
Barton | 7,340 | 60.06% | 4,826 | 39.49% | 41 | 0.34% | 14 | 0.11% | 2,514 | 20.57% | 12,221 |
Bourbon | 3,980 | 54.35% | 3,290 | 44.93% | 40 | 0.55% | 13 | 0.18% | 690 | 9.42% | 7,323 |
Brown | 2,386 | 42.33% | 3,213 | 57.01% | 26 | 0.46% | 11 | 0.20% | -827 | -14.68% | 5,636 |
Butler | 9,061 | 58.34% | 6,364 | 40.97% | 76 | 0.49% | 31 | 0.20% | 2,697 | 17.37% | 15,532 |
Chase | 886 | 49.41% | 902 | 50.31% | 5 | 0.28% | 0 | 0.00% | -16 | -0.90% | 1,793 |
Chautauqua | 1,163 | 44.05% | 1,463 | 55.42% | 11 | 0.42% | 3 | 0.11% | -300 | -11.37% | 2,640 |
Cherokee | 5,720 | 60.23% | 3,730 | 39.28% | 29 | 0.31% | 18 | 0.19% | 1,990 | 20.95% | 9,497 |
Cheyenne | 886 | 43.43% | 1,147 | 56.23% | 6 | 0.29% | 1 | 0.05% | -261 | -12.80% | 2,040 |
Clark | 881 | 52.91% | 777 | 46.67% | 6 | 0.36% | 1 | 0.06% | 104 | 6.24% | 1,665 |
Clay | 1,806 | 37.06% | 3,030 | 62.18% | 23 | 0.47% | 14 | 0.29% | -1,224 | -25.12% | 4,873 |
Cloud | 3,314 | 54.84% | 2,680 | 44.35% | 35 | 0.58% | 14 | 0.23% | 634 | 10.49% | 6,043 |
Coffey | 1,594 | 44.20% | 1,998 | 55.41% | 9 | 0.25% | 5 | 0.14% | -404 | -11.21% | 3,606 |
Comanche | 818 | 53.67% | 694 | 45.54% | 4 | 0.26% | 8 | 0.52% | 124 | 8.13% | 1,524 |
Cowley | 7,591 | 51.30% | 7,092 | 47.93% | 96 | 0.65% | 18 | 0.12% | 499 | 3.37% | 14,797 |
Crawford | 10,282 | 61.78% | 6,286 | 37.77% | 41 | 0.25% | 35 | 0.21% | 3,996 | 24.01% | 16,644 |
Decatur | 1,314 | 48.45% | 1,382 | 50.96% | 9 | 0.33% | 7 | 0.26% | -68 | -2.51% | 2,712 |
Dickinson | 4,070 | 46.00% | 4,704 | 53.17% | 51 | 0.58% | 22 | 0.25% | -634 | -7.17% | 8,847 |
Doniphan | 1,856 | 48.54% | 1,952 | 51.05% | 9 | 0.24% | 7 | 0.18% | -96 | -2.51% | 3,824 |
Douglas | 9,416 | 54.26% | 7,825 | 45.09% | 77 | 0.44% | 35 | 0.20% | 1,591 | 9.17% | 17,353 |
Edwards | 1,427 | 60.03% | 932 | 39.21% | 12 | 0.50% | 6 | 0.25% | 495 | 20.82% | 2,377 |
Elk | 994 | 43.73% | 1,267 | 55.74% | 10 | 0.44% | 2 | 0.09% | -273 | -12.01% | 2,273 |
Ellis | 5,553 | 69.24% | 2,440 | 30.42% | 13 | 0.16% | 14 | 0.17% | 3,113 | 38.82% | 8,020 |
Ellsworth | 2,118 | 59.88% | 1,406 | 39.75% | 8 | 0.23% | 5 | 0.14% | 712 | 20.13% | 3,537 |
Finney | 3,639 | 61.86% | 2,201 | 37.41% | 32 | 0.54% | 11 | 0.19% | 1,438 | 24.45% | 5,883 |
Ford | 5,221 | 59.59% | 3,481 | 39.73% | 36 | 0.41% | 23 | 0.26% | 1,740 | 19.86% | 8,761 |
Franklin | 4,410 | 53.64% | 3,725 | 45.31% | 76 | 0.92% | 10 | 0.12% | 685 | 8.33% | 8,221 |
Geary | 3,419 | 59.51% | 2,259 | 39.32% | 54 | 0.94% | 13 | 0.23% | 1,160 | 20.19% | 5,745 |
Gove | 1,022 | 56.37% | 774 | 42.69% | 16 | 0.88% | 1 | 0.06% | 248 | 13.68% | 1,813 |
Graham | 1,193 | 49.54% | 1,194 | 49.58% | 15 | 0.62% | 6 | 0.25% | -1 | -0.04% | 2,408 |
Grant | 1,023 | 57.63% | 727 | 40.96% | 18 | 1.01% | 7 | 0.39% | 296 | 16.67% | 1,775 |
Gray | 1,136 | 63.36% | 643 | 35.86% | 13 | 0.73% | 1 | 0.06% | 493 | 27.50% | 1,793 |
Greeley | 469 | 54.16% | 388 | 44.80% | 7 | 0.81% | 2 | 0.23% | 81 | 9.36% | 866 |
Greenwood | 2,048 | 42.66% | 2,717 | 56.59% | 26 | 0.54% | 10 | 0.21% | -669 | -13.93% | 4,801 |
Hamilton | 726 | 51.09% | 685 | 48.21% | 10 | 0.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 41 | 2.88% | 1,421 |
Harper | 1,813 | 47.59% | 1,969 | 51.68% | 23 | 0.60% | 5 | 0.13% | -156 | -4.09% | 3,810 |
Harvey | 5,306 | 50.95% | 4,979 | 47.81% | 118 | 1.13% | 12 | 0.12% | 327 | 3.14% | 10,415 |
Haskell | 820 | 58.20% | 570 | 40.45% | 15 | 1.06% | 4 | 0.28% | 250 | 17.75% | 1,409 |
Hodgeman | 821 | 57.25% | 607 | 42.33% | 4 | 0.28% | 2 | 0.14% | 214 | 14.92% | 1,434 |
Jackson | 1,971 | 45.46% | 2,334 | 53.83% | 23 | 0.53% | 8 | 0.18% | -363 | -8.37% | 4,336 |
Jefferson | 2,066 | 46.06% | 2,380 | 53.07% | 21 | 0.47% | 18 | 0.40% | -314 | -7.01% | 4,485 |
Jewell | 1,601 | 45.29% | 1,895 | 53.61% | 31 | 0.88% | 8 | 0.23% | -294 | -8.32% | 3,535 |
Johnson | 31,213 | 45.12% | 37,672 | 54.46% | 203 | 0.29% | 91 | 0.13% | -6,459 | -9.34% | 69,179 |
Kearny | 737 | 56.05% | 563 | 42.81% | 13 | 0.99% | 2 | 0.15% | 174 | 13.24% | 1,315 |
Kingman | 2,226 | 53.32% | 1,917 | 45.92% | 25 | 0.60% | 7 | 0.17% | 309 | 7.40% | 4,175 |
Kiowa | 970 | 45.54% | 1,135 | 53.29% | 25 | 1.17% | 0 | 0.00% | -165 | -7.75% | 2,130 |
Labette | 6,208 | 56.12% | 4,761 | 43.04% | 54 | 0.49% | 39 | 0.35% | 1,447 | 13.08% | 11,062 |
Lane | 773 | 56.42% | 586 | 42.77% | 8 | 0.58% | 3 | 0.22% | 187 | 13.65% | 1,370 |
Leavenworth | 7,479 | 57.14% | 5,544 | 42.36% | 43 | 0.33% | 23 | 0.18% | 1,935 | 14.78% | 13,089 |
Lincoln | 1,316 | 48.69% | 1,373 | 50.80% | 13 | 0.48% | 1 | 0.04% | -57 | -2.11% | 2,703 |
Linn | 1,725 | 46.89% | 1,939 | 52.70% | 13 | 0.35% | 2 | 0.05% | -214 | -5.81% | 3,679 |
Logan | 957 | 49.30% | 967 | 49.82% | 15 | 0.77% | 2 | 0.10% | -10 | -0.52% | 1,941 |
Lyon | 6,197 | 54.07% | 5,184 | 45.23% | 70 | 0.61% | 11 | 0.10% | 1,013 | 8.84% | 11,462 |
Marion | 2,792 | 44.03% | 3,481 | 54.90% | 66 | 1.04% | 2 | 0.03% | -689 | -10.87% | 6,341 |
Marshall | 3,334 | 48.87% | 3,432 | 50.31% | 52 | 0.76% | 4 | 0.06% | -98 | -1.44% | 6,822 |
McPherson | 5,173 | 52.65% | 4,483 | 45.62% | 161 | 1.64% | 9 | 0.09% | 690 | 7.03% | 9,826 |
Meade | 1,179 | 47.31% | 1,290 | 51.77% | 21 | 0.84% | 2 | 0.08% | -111 | -4.46% | 2,492 |
Miami | 4,620 | 61.03% | 2,907 | 38.40% | 35 | 0.46% | 8 | 0.11% | 1,713 | 22.63% | 7,570 |
Mitchell | 1,898 | 48.92% | 1,951 | 50.28% | 26 | 0.67% | 5 | 0.13% | -53 | -1.36% | 3,880 |
Montgomery | 8,853 | 50.83% | 8,437 | 48.44% | 104 | 0.60% | 22 | 0.13% | 416 | 2.39% | 17,416 |
Morris | 1,605 | 48.30% | 1,683 | 50.65% | 27 | 0.81% | 8 | 0.24% | -78 | -2.35% | 3,323 |
Morton | 938 | 60.09% | 609 | 39.01% | 11 | 0.70% | 3 | 0.19% | 329 | 21.08% | 1,561 |
Nemaha | 3,260 | 57.36% | 2,391 | 42.07% | 28 | 0.49% | 4 | 0.07% | 869 | 15.29% | 5,683 |
Neosho | 4,795 | 57.80% | 3,458 | 41.68% | 33 | 0.40% | 10 | 0.12% | 1,337 | 16.12% | 8,296 |
Ness | 1,562 | 59.73% | 1,034 | 39.54% | 16 | 0.61% | 3 | 0.11% | 528 | 20.19% | 2,615 |
Norton | 1,449 | 38.78% | 2,245 | 60.09% | 37 | 0.99% | 5 | 0.13% | -796 | -21.31% | 3,736 |
Osage | 2,737 | 50.13% | 2,681 | 49.10% | 33 | 0.60% | 9 | 0.16% | 56 | 1.03% | 5,460 |
Osborne | 1,659 | 48.78% | 1,700 | 49.99% | 37 | 1.09% | 5 | 0.15% | -41 | -1.21% | 3,401 |
Ottawa | 1,535 | 50.29% | 1,491 | 48.85% | 18 | 0.59% | 8 | 0.26% | 44 | 1.44% | 3,052 |
Pawnee | 2,577 | 63.25% | 1,468 | 36.03% | 29 | 0.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,109 | 27.22% | 4,074 |
Phillips | 1,804 | 45.10% | 2,164 | 54.10% | 30 | 0.75% | 2 | 0.05% | -360 | -9.00% | 4,000 |
Pottawatomie | 2,432 | 47.97% | 2,606 | 51.40% | 30 | 0.59% | 2 | 0.04% | -174 | -3.43% | 5,070 |
Pratt | 2,594 | 50.58% | 2,493 | 48.61% | 34 | 0.66% | 8 | 0.16% | 101 | 1.97% | 5,129 |
Rawlins | 959 | 42.41% | 1,292 | 57.14% | 8 | 0.35% | 2 | 0.09% | -333 | -14.73% | 2,261 |
Reno | 14,936 | 62.30% | 8,829 | 36.83% | 194 | 0.81% | 14 | 0.06% | 6,107 | 25.47% | 23,973 |
Republic | 2,222 | 47.54% | 2,414 | 51.65% | 32 | 0.68% | 6 | 0.13% | -192 | -4.11% | 4,674 |
Rice | 3,665 | 60.10% | 2,390 | 39.19% | 39 | 0.64% | 4 | 0.07% | 1,275 | 20.91% | 6,098 |
Riley | 5,597 | 46.12% | 6,396 | 52.70% | 122 | 1.01% | 22 | 0.18% | -799 | -6.58% | 12,137 |
Rooks | 1,923 | 49.01% | 1,985 | 50.59% | 10 | 0.25% | 6 | 0.15% | -62 | -1.58% | 3,924 |
Rush | 1,778 | 61.29% | 1,098 | 37.85% | 20 | 0.69% | 5 | 0.17% | 680 | 23.44% | 2,901 |
Russell | 2,505 | 50.33% | 2,435 | 48.93% | 30 | 0.60% | 7 | 0.14% | 70 | 1.40% | 4,977 |
Saline | 9,725 | 59.45% | 6,533 | 39.94% | 73 | 0.45% | 26 | 0.16% | 3,192 | 19.51% | 16,357 |
Scott | 1,016 | 46.67% | 1,143 | 52.50% | 14 | 0.64% | 4 | 0.18% | -127 | -5.83% | 2,177 |
Sedgwick | 66,372 | 55.23% | 52,592 | 43.76% | 792 | 0.66% | 425 | 0.35% | 13,780 | 11.47% | 120,181 |
Seward | 2,520 | 46.14% | 2,910 | 53.28% | 27 | 0.49% | 5 | 0.09% | -390 | -7.14% | 5,462 |
Shawnee | 30,626 | 54.09% | 25,736 | 45.45% | 203 | 0.36% | 60 | 0.11% | 4,890 | 8.64% | 56,625 |
Sheridan | 1,028 | 55.66% | 808 | 43.75% | 9 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.11% | 220 | 11.91% | 1,847 |
Sherman | 1,522 | 50.56% | 1,463 | 48.60% | 19 | 0.63% | 6 | 0.20% | 59 | 1.96% | 3,010 |
Smith | 1,809 | 46.73% | 2,026 | 52.34% | 29 | 0.75% | 7 | 0.18% | -217 | -5.61% | 3,871 |
Stafford | 2,087 | 57.32% | 1,516 | 41.64% | 38 | 1.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 571 | 15.68% | 3,641 |
Stanton | 500 | 51.55% | 459 | 47.32% | 8 | 0.82% | 3 | 0.31% | 41 | 4.23% | 970 |
Stevens | 1,006 | 49.80% | 992 | 49.11% | 17 | 0.84% | 5 | 0.25% | 14 | 0.69% | 2,020 |
Sumner | 5,574 | 53.34% | 4,760 | 45.55% | 102 | 0.98% | 14 | 0.13% | 814 | 7.79% | 10,450 |
Thomas | 1,793 | 53.55% | 1,528 | 45.64% | 23 | 0.69% | 4 | 0.12% | 265 | 7.91% | 3,348 |
Trego | 1,177 | 54.44% | 974 | 45.05% | 9 | 0.42% | 2 | 0.09% | 203 | 9.39% | 2,162 |
Wabaunsee | 1,287 | 40.83% | 1,839 | 58.34% | 19 | 0.60% | 7 | 0.22% | -552 | -17.51% | 3,152 |
Wallace | 496 | 48.72% | 516 | 50.69% | 5 | 0.49% | 1 | 0.10% | -20 | -1.97% | 1,018 |
Washington | 2,015 | 42.83% | 2,654 | 56.41% | 32 | 0.68% | 4 | 0.09% | -639 | -13.58% | 4,705 |
Wichita | 662 | 55.30% | 529 | 44.19% | 6 | 0.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 133 | 11.11% | 1,197 |
Wilson | 2,592 | 46.65% | 2,919 | 52.54% | 40 | 0.72% | 5 | 0.09% | -327 | -5.89% | 5,556 |
Woodson | 1,128 | 46.40% | 1,279 | 52.61% | 17 | 0.70% | 7 | 0.29% | -151 | -6.21% | 2,431 |
Wyandotte | 43,442 | 66.47% | 20,553 | 31.45% | 890 | 1.36% | 466 | 0.71% | 22,889 | 35.02% | 65,351 |
Totals | 464,028 | 54.09% | 386,579 | 45.06% | 5,393 | 0.63% | 1,901 | 0.22% | 77,449 | 9.03% | 857,901 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
edit- Wichita
- Crawford
- Shawnee
- Lyon
- Sherman
- Sheridan
- Trego
- Ford
- Russell
- Rush
- Barton
- Barber
- Butler
- Pawnee
- Ottawa
- Edwards
- Rice
- Reno
- Harvey
- Sumner
- Saline
- Cloud
- Finney
- Geary
- Nemaha
- Atchison
- Leavenworth
- Osage
- Franklin
- Miami
- Anderson
- Allen
- Cowley
- Neosho
- Labette
- Cherokee
- Pratt
- Douglas
- Lane
- Stafford
- Kingman
- Bourbon
- Clark
- Gove
- Comanche
- Grant
- Gray
- Greeley
- Hamilton
- Haskell
- Hodgeman
- Kearny
- McPherson
- Montgomery
- Morton
- Ness
- Sedgwick
- Stanton
- Stevens
- Thomas
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1964 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results – Kansas". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "KS US President Race, November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.