The 1964 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Louisiana voters chose ten[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Louisiana was won by the Republican ticket of U.S Senator Barry Goldwater, running with U.S. Representative William E. Miller, with 56.81% of the popular vote against the Democratic ticket of President Lyndon B. Johnson, running with U.S Senator Hubert Humphrey.[2][3] Louisana was one of five states that swung more Republican in 1964, alongside Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Campaign
editGoldwater received 65% of the white vote.[4]
Goldwater became the first Republican to carry Louisiana without winning the presidency, while Johnson would win the national election in a landslide. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Louisiana voted for a different candidate than neighboring Arkansas, and the last election in which Lafayette Parish voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[5]
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 509,225 | 56.81% | |
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) | 387,068 | 43.19% | |
| Total votes | 896,293 | 100% | ||
Results by parish
edit| Parish[6] | Barry Goldwater Republican |
Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Acadia | 6,706 | 41.47% | 9,463 | 58.53% | -2,757 | -17.06% | 16,169 |
| Allen | 2,704 | 41.66% | 3,787 | 58.34% | -1,083 | -16.68% | 6,491 |
| Ascension | 3,197 | 39.59% | 4,879 | 60.41% | -1,682 | -20.82% | 8,076 |
| Assumption | 2,112 | 40.87% | 3,056 | 59.13% | -944 | -18.26% | 5,168 |
| Avoyelles | 4,874 | 48.86% | 5,102 | 51.14% | -228 | -2.28% | 9,976 |
| Beauregard | 3,349 | 52.34% | 3,049 | 47.66% | 300 | 4.68% | 6,398 |
| Bienville | 3,740 | 81.39% | 855 | 18.61% | 2,885 | 62.78% | 4,595 |
| Bossier | 9,822 | 83.53% | 1,937 | 16.47% | 7,885 | 67.06% | 11,759 |
| Caddo | 42,197 | 80.60% | 10,158 | 19.40% | 32,039 | 61.20% | 52,355 |
| Calcasieu | 17,046 | 42.27% | 23,285 | 57.73% | -6,239 | -15.46% | 40,331 |
| Caldwell | 2,534 | 80.62% | 609 | 19.38% | 1,925 | 61.24% | 3,143 |
| Cameron | 871 | 35.59% | 1,576 | 64.41% | -705 | -28.82% | 2,447 |
| Catahoula | 2,387 | 81.00% | 560 | 19.00% | 1,827 | 62.00% | 2,947 |
| Claiborne | 3,917 | 89.04% | 482 | 10.96% | 3,435 | 78.08% | 5,399 |
| Concordia | 4,022 | 83.25% | 809 | 16.75% | 3,213 | 66.50% | 4,831 |
| DeSoto | 3,954 | 75.92% | 1,254 | 24.08% | 2,700 | 51.84% | 5,208 |
| East Baton Rouge | 36,964 | 58.57% | 26,152 | 41.43% | 10,812 | 17.14% | 63,116 |
| East Carroll | 1,486 | 84.96% | 263 | 15.04% | 1,223 | 69.92% | 1,749 |
| East Feliciana | 1,900 | 79.63% | 486 | 20.37% | 1,414 | 59.26% | 2,386 |
| Evangeline | 3,975 | 39.21% | 6,163 | 60.79% | -2,188 | -21.58% | 10,138 |
| Franklin | 5,470 | 87.82% | 759 | 12.18% | 4,711 | 75.64% | 6,229 |
| Grant | 3,292 | 69.36% | 1,454 | 30.64% | 1,838 | 38.72% | 4,746 |
| Iberia | 8,196 | 50.17% | 8,141 | 49.83% | 55 | 0.34% | 16,337 |
| Iberville | 3,432 | 43.57% | 4,445 | 56.43% | -1,013 | -12.86% | 7,877 |
| Jackson | 4,521 | 74.44% | 1,552 | 25.56% | 2,969 | 48.88% | 6,073 |
| Jefferson | 37,161 | 53.88% | 31,804 | 46.12% | 5,357 | 7.76% | 68,965 |
| Jefferson Davis | 3,673 | 42.52% | 4,966 | 57.48% | -1,293 | -14.96% | 8,639 |
| Lafayette | 12,398 | 46.11% | 14,487 | 53.89% | -2,089 | -7.78% | 26,885 |
| Lafourche | 6,164 | 33.85% | 12,045 | 66.15% | -5,881 | -32.30% | 18,209 |
| LaSalle | 4,319 | 83.33% | 864 | 16.67% | 3,455 | 66.66% | 5,183 |
| Lincoln | 5,766 | 77.09% | 1,714 | 22.91% | 4,052 | 54.18% | 7,480 |
| Livingston | 5,508 | 61.08% | 3,509 | 38.92% | 1,999 | 22.16% | 9,017 |
| Madison | 2,061 | 83.17% | 417 | 16.83% | 1,644 | 66.34% | 2,478 |
| Morehouse | 6,222 | 87.47% | 891 | 12.53% | 5,331 | 74.94% | 7,113 |
| Natchitoches | 5,525 | 65.00% | 2,975 | 35.00% | 2,550 | 30.00% | 8,500 |
| Orleans | 81,049 | 49.69% | 82,045 | 50.31% | -996 | -0.62% | 163,094 |
| Ouachita | 21,024 | 83.44% | 4,174 | 16.56% | 16,850 | 66.88% | 25,198 |
| Plaquemines | 4,904 | 86.35% | 775 | 13.65% | 4,129 | 72.70% | 5,679 |
| Pointe Coupee | 2,327 | 50.87% | 2,247 | 49.13% | 80 | 1.74% | 4,574 |
| Rapides | 18,122 | 64.46% | 9,992 | 35.54% | 8,130 | 28.92% | 28,114 |
| Red River | 2,235 | 87.00% | 334 | 13.00% | 1,901 | 74.00% | 2,569 |
| Richland | 4,498 | 85.76% | 747 | 14.24% | 3,751 | 71.52% | 5,245 |
| Sabine | 4,165 | 66.68% | 2,081 | 33.32% | 2,084 | 33.36% | 6,246 |
| St. Bernard | 8,055 | 56.61% | 6,175 | 43.39% | 1,880 | 13.22% | 14,230 |
| St. Charles | 2,715 | 34.81% | 5,085 | 65.19% | -2,370 | -30.38% | 7,800 |
| St. Helena | 1,319 | 65.14% | 706 | 34.86% | 613 | 30.28% | 2,025 |
| St. James | 1,467 | 25.82% | 4,214 | 74.18% | -2,747 | -48.36% | 5,681 |
| St. John the Baptist | 1,694 | 29.97% | 3,958 | 70.03% | -2,264 | -40.06% | 5,652 |
| St. Landry | 10,920 | 48.05% | 11,807 | 51.95% | -887 | -3.90% | 22,727 |
| St. Martin | 2,793 | 37.40% | 4,675 | 62.60% | -1,882 | -25.20% | 7,468 |
| St. Mary | 5,530 | 43.01% | 7,327 | 56.99% | -1,797 | -13.98% | 12,857 |
| St. Tammany | 7,883 | 54.08% | 6,694 | 45.92% | 1,189 | 8.16% | 14,577 |
| Tangipahoa | 9,732 | 57.79% | 7,109 | 42.21% | 2,623 | 15.58% | 16,841 |
| Tensas | 1,655 | 89.60% | 192 | 10.40% | 1,463 | 79.20% | 1,847 |
| Terrebonne | 6,729 | 43.96% | 8,577 | 56.04% | -1,848 | -12.08% | 15,306 |
| Union | 4,534 | 79.70% | 1,155 | 20.30% | 3,379 | 59.40% | 5,689 |
| Vermilion | 4,984 | 35.13% | 9,204 | 64.87% | -4,220 | -29.74% | 14,188 |
| Vernon | 3,696 | 50.91% | 3,564 | 49.09% | 132 | 1.82% | 7,260 |
| Washington | 7,438 | 60.65% | 4,825 | 39.35% | 2,613 | 21.30% | 12,263 |
| Webster | 8,177 | 82.33% | 1,755 | 17.67% | 6,422 | 64.66% | 9,932 |
| West Baton Rouge | 1,835 | 49.24% | 1,892 | 50.76% | -57 | -1.52% | 3,727 |
| West Carroll | 3,017 | 88.42% | 395 | 11.58% | 2,622 | 76.84% | 3,412 |
| West Feliciana | 897 | 80.09% | 223 | 19.91% | 674 | 60.18% | 1,120 |
| Winn | 4,366 | 78.54% | 1,193 | 21.46% | 3,173 | 57.08% | 5,559 |
| Totals | 509,225 | 56.81% | 387,068 | 43.19% | 122,157 | 13.62% | 896,293 |
Parishes that flipped from Unpledged to Republican
edit- Bienville
- Claiborne
- Concordia
- DeSoto
- East Carroll
- East Feliciana
- Franklin
- Grant
- Madison
- Plaquemines
- Richland
- Saint Bernard
- Red River
- St. Helena
- St. Tammany
- Tangipahoa
- Webster
- West Feliciana
- West Carroll
Parishes that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results — Louisiana". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1964". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 155.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "LA US President Race, November 03, 1964". Our Campaigns.