1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico

The 1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1964. All fifty states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 194,017 131,838
Percentage 59.22% 40.24%

County results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

New Mexico was won by President Lyndon B. Johnson in a 19-point landslide. Johnson had won after serving as President for one year following the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater lost most of the United States in this election, except for his home state and portions of the American South.[1] Goldwater won only three counties: the Plains counties of Union and Harding, which as of the 2020 presidential election have never voted Democratic since 1948,[2] and Lincoln County, which has never voted Democratic since 1936. Even in these, Goldwater won only narrowly: his highest proportion of the vote was only 52.55 percent in Lincoln County. Four other normally reliably Republican counties – San Juan, Curry, Chaves and Catron – were narrowly won by Johnson and have never voted for a Democrat since.[2] This is also the last time the southeastern counties of Roosevelt, Otero and Lea have voted Democratic. Los Alamos County did not vote Democratic again until 2008.[2]

At the other extreme, Grant and Sandoval Counties both gave Johnson over seventy percent of the vote, and the populous counties of Santa Fe and Taos also gave him over two-thirds.[1]

Results

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1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 194,017 59.22% +9.07
Republican 131,838 40.24% −9.17
Socialist Labor 1,217 0.37% +0.19
Prohibition
543 0.17% −0.08
Total votes 327,615 100.00%
Democratic win

Results by county

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County[3] Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Eric Hass
Socialist Labor
E. Harold Munn
Prohibition
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Bernalillo 55,036 55.98% 42,583 43.31% 624 0.63% 74 0.08% 12,453 12.67% 98,317
Catron 624 51.66% 584 48.34% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 40 3.32% 1,208
Chaves 8,650 50.55% 8,419 49.20% 29 0.17% 14 0.08% 231 1.35% 17,112
Colfax 3,367 66.95% 1,636 32.53% 8 0.16% 18 0.36% 1,731 34.42% 5,029
Curry 5,228 50.38% 5,120 49.34% 14 0.13% 16 0.15% 108 1.04% 10,378
De Baca 674 54.35% 559 45.08% 3 0.24% 4 0.32% 115 9.27% 1,240
Dona Ana 10,748 59.43% 7,280 40.25% 42 0.23% 15 0.08% 3,468 19.18% 18,085
Eddy 11,216 62.20% 6,747 37.42% 45 0.25% 24 0.13% 4,469 24.78% 18,032
Grant 5,253 71.82% 2,042 27.92% 12 0.16% 7 0.10% 3,211 43.90% 7,314
Guadalupe 1,649 60.78% 1,058 39.00% 2 0.07% 4 0.15% 591 21.78% 2,713
Harding 431 47.62% 473 52.27% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% -42 -4.65% 905
Hidalgo 995 60.89% 628 38.43% 8 0.49% 3 0.18% 367 22.46% 1,634
Lea 8,862 55.57% 7,033 44.10% 36 0.23% 17 0.11% 1,829 11.47% 15,948
Lincoln 1,565 46.70% 1,761 52.55% 13 0.39% 12 0.36% -196 -5.85% 3,351
Los Alamos 3,767 66.23% 1,895 33.32% 6 0.11% 20 0.35% 1,872 32.91% 5,688
Luna 2,286 57.60% 1,665 41.95% 12 0.30% 6 0.15% 621 15.65% 3,969
McKinley 6,913 69.13% 2,965 29.65% 64 0.64% 58 0.58% 3,948 39.48% 10,000
Mora 1,509 59.72% 1,014 40.13% 2 0.08% 2 0.08% 495 19.59% 2,525
Otero 6,035 63.13% 3,498 36.59% 13 0.14% 14 0.15% 2,537 26.54% 9,560
Quay 2,333 51.67% 2,161 47.86% 13 0.29% 8 0.18% 172 3.81% 4,515
Rio Arriba 6,787 69.56% 2,906 29.78% 32 0.33% 32 0.33% 3,881 39.78% 9,757
Roosevelt 2,875 51.03% 2,732 48.49% 20 0.35% 7 0.12% 143 2.54% 5,634
San Juan 6,901 49.68% 6,808 49.01% 86 0.62% 97 0.70% 93 0.67% 13,892
San Miguel 5,767 67.81% 2,714 31.91% 20 0.24% 4 0.05% 3,053 35.90% 8,505
Sandoval 3,332 75.38% 1,077 24.37% 10 0.23% 1 0.02% 2,255 51.01% 4,420
Santa Fe 12,616 68.12% 5,834 31.50% 35 0.19% 34 0.18% 6,782 36.62% 18,519
Sierra 1,633 51.86% 1,501 47.67% 12 0.38% 3 0.10% 132 4.19% 3,149
Socorro 2,397 57.33% 1,774 42.43% 5 0.12% 5 0.12% 623 14.90% 4,181
Taos 4,204 67.39% 2,006 32.16% 10 0.16% 18 0.29% 2,198 35.23% 6,238
Torrance 1,446 54.88% 1,183 44.90% 3 0.11% 3 0.11% 263 9.98% 2,635
Union 1,159 48.27% 1,232 51.31% 7 0.29% 3 0.12% -73 -3.04% 2,401
Valencia 7,757 65.98% 3,950 33.60% 30 0.26% 20 0.17% 3,807 32.38% 11,757
Totals 194,017 59.22% 131,838 40.24% 1,217 0.37% 543 0.17% 62,179 18.98% 327,615

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1964 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c 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. ^ Our Campaigns; NM US President 1964