1964 United States presidential election in Alaska

Election in Alaska

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1964 United States presidential election in Alaska

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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  | 3 | 0
Popular vote  | 44,329 | 22,930
Percentage  | 65.91% | 34.09%

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Borough and Census Area Results

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| President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The 1964 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Alaska was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) with 65.9% of the popular vote against U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) with 34.1%.[1] Johnson won the national vote as well, defeating Goldwater and serving a full term after finishing the assassinated John F. Kennedy's term.

This is the only presidential election when Alaska has voted for a Democratic candidate, partially due to Johnson's landslide victory throughout the rest of the country (except for the Deep South and Goldwater's home state),[1] and partially because during its first four presidential elections Alaska was not anomalously Republican relative to the nation at-large. The state would become and remain very strongly Republican from 1976 onwards.[2]

## Results[edit]

1964 United States presidential election in Alaska[1]

Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | Percentage  | Electoral votes
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)  | 44,329 | 65.91% | 3
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 22,930  | 34.09%  | 0
Totals | 67,259 | 100.00% | 3

## Analysis[edit]

Despite Johnson's landslide, Alaska came out of the 1964 election as 4.63 percent more Democratic than the nation at large on a two-party basis, and Johnson's 31-point margin is the second-largest by a presidential candidate of either party, only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide. This is also the only time any presidential candidate has won every single borough in the state. Had Goldwater won the state, Alaska would have never voted Democratic, and it would constitute the Republicans' longest voting streak up to the present day.

Alaska was one of three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being Vermont (which also had never gone to a Democrat before) and Georgia (which hadn't gone to a Republican before)--though these two had been states for much longer than Alaska (which had only participated in one previous presidential contest, in 1960) and broke a streak lasting more than a century.

## See also[edit]

* United States presidential elections in Alaska

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 3, 1964
2. ^ Counting the Votes; Alaska Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine

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