1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Indiana
1964 United States presidential election in Indiana
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[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Main article: 1964 United States presidential election
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George Wallace ran in the Democratic primary, but was defeated by Governor Matthew E. Welsh, who served as a surrogate for Johnson.[2]
This is the only time that Randolph County and Wabash County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[3] This was also the first time Indiana voted Democratic since 1936.[4] As of the 2020 presidential election[update], 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, Lawrence, Marshall, Miami, Montgomery, Noble, Orange, Parke, Pulaski, Putnam, Ripley, Shelby, Tipton, Warren, Wells, White, and Whitley.[5]
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| 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% | ||
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Results by county
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| County | Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic |
Barry Morris Goldwater Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| 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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- Black & Black 1992, p. 160.
- Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 187-192 ISBN 0786422173
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- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
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