1964 United States presidential election in Texas
November 3, 1964
Turnout44.6%
 
Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Texas Arizona
Running mate Hubert Humphrey William E. Miller
Electoral vote 25 0
Popular vote 1,663,185 958,566
Percentage 63.32% 36.49%
County Results
President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

 Elected President

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

The 1964 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, comfortably won his home state of Texas with 63.32% of the vote against the Republican Party candidate, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who won 36.5%, giving him the state's 25 electoral votes and a victory margin of 26.8 percentage points.[1] Johnson won the 1964 election in a landslide, carrying 44 states plus the District of Columbia, which participated for the first time. Goldwater only carried his home state of Arizona, along with five Deep South states which had been historically Democratic, but defected to the Republican Party due to the Democratic Party’s support for civil rights. Due to its status as Johnson's home state, in 1964, Texas was the most Democratic of the 11 states of the former Confederacy and the only one which leaned more Democratic than the nation at-large.

This would be the last time the counties containing the five largest cities in Texas, consisting of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Fort Worth, would vote Democratic at the same time until 2020.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Texas
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) 1,663,185 63.32% 25
Republican Barry Goldwater 958,566 36.49% 0
Constitution Joseph B. Lightburn 5,060 0.19% 0
Totals 2,626,811 100.00% 25
Voter turnout (voting age/registered voters) 44.6%/88.0%

Results by county

County Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic		 Barry Goldwater
Republican		 Joseph B. Lightburn
Constitution		 Margin Total votes cast[2]
#  % #  % #  % #  %
Anderson 4,809 58.78% 3,362 41.10% 10 0.12% 1,447 17.68% 8,181
Andrews 2,133 59.50% 1,442 40.22% 10 0.28% 691 19.28% 3,585
Angelina 8,194 60.77% 5,262 39.02% 28 0.21% 2,932 21.75% 13,484
Aransas 1,492 71.01% 602 28.65% 7 0.33% 890 42.36% 2,101
Archer 1,766 80.02% 441 19.98% 0 0.00% 1,325 60.04% 2,207
Armstrong 544 59.85% 365 40.15% 0 0.00% 179 19.70% 909
Atascosa 3,224 71.39% 1,283 28.41% 9 0.20% 1,941 42.98% 4,516
Austin 2,365 60.41% 1,545 39.46% 5 0.13% 820 20.95% 3,915
Bailey 1,503 58.67% 1,056 41.22% 3 0.12% 447 17.45% 2,562
Bandera 876 53.45% 762 46.49% 1 0.06% 114 6.96% 1,639
Bastrop 3,912 77.48% 1,130 22.38% 7 0.14% 2,782 55.10% 5,049
Baylor 1,403 78.21% 389 21.68% 2 0.11% 1,014 56.53% 1,794
Bee 3,314 68.58% 1,509 31.23% 9 0.19% 1,805 37.35% 4,832
Bell 14,557 83.13% 2,938 16.78% 17 0.10% 11,619 66.35% 17,512
Bexar 108,658 66.86% 53,469 32.90% 393 0.24% 55,189 33.96% 162,520
Blanco 1,197 80.44% 290 19.49% 1 0.07% 907 60.95% 1,488
Borden 266 63.48% 152 36.28% 1 0.24% 114 27.20% 419
Bosque 2,690 72.29% 1,024 27.52% 7 0.19% 1,666 44.77% 3,721
Bowie 10,368 59.55% 7,018 40.31% 24 0.14% 3,350 19.24% 17,410
Brazoria 15,917 64.98% 8,477 34.60% 103 0.42% 7,440 30.38% 24,497
Brazos 7,998 66.54% 4,003 33.31% 18 0.15% 3,995 33.23% 12,019
Brewster 1,251 66.30% 635 33.65% 1 0.05% 616 32.65% 1,887
Briscoe 966 73.35% 348 26.42% 3 0.23% 618 46.93% 1,317
Brooks 2,299 85.05% 402 14.87% 2 0.07% 1,897 70.18% 2,703
Brown 5,214 71.49% 2,070 28.38% 9 0.12% 3,144 43.11% 7,293
Burleson 2,527 80.30% 617 19.61% 3 0.10% 1,910 60.69% 3,147
Burnet 2,585 75.81% 821 24.08% 4 0.12% 1,764 51.73% 3,410
Caldwell 3,580 77.34% 1,046 22.60% 3 0.06% 2,534 54.74% 4,629
Calhoun 3,398 76.64% 1,031 23.25% 5 0.11% 2,367 53.39% 4,434
Callahan 2,178 71.72% 849 27.96% 10 0.33% 1,329 43.76% 3,037
Cameron 16,056 62.57% 9,531 37.14% 72 0.28% 6,525 25.43% 25,659
Camp 1,841 71.44% 729 28.29% 7 0.27% 1,112 43.15% 2,577
Carson 1,574 60.05% 1,044 39.83% 3 0.11% 530 20.22% 2,621
Cass 3,603 57.26% 2,681 42.61% 8 0.13% 922 14.65% 6,292
Castro 1,865 74.78% 626 25.10% 3 0.12% 1,239 49.68% 2,494
Chambers 1,921 64.99% 1,023 34.61% 12 0.41% 898 30.38% 2,956
Cherokee 5,485 64.25% 3,043 35.64% 9 0.11% 2,442 28.61% 8,537
Childress 1,977 67.45% 952 32.48% 2 0.07% 1,025 34.97% 2,931
Clay 2,357 78.05% 659 21.82% 4 0.13% 1,698 56.23% 3,020
Cochran 1,260 71.55% 497 28.22% 4 0.23% 763 43.33% 1,761
Coke 900 70.92% 366 28.84% 3 0.24% 534 42.08% 1,269
Coleman 2,670 65.04% 1,434 34.93% 1 0.02% 1,236 30.11% 4,105
Collin 7,833 69.98% 3,341 29.85% 19 0.17% 4,492 40.13% 11,193
Collingsworth 1,145 61.16% 724 38.68% 3 0.16% 421 22.48% 1,872
Colorado 3,650 65.48% 1,918 34.41% 6 0.11% 1,732 31.07% 5,574
Comal 3,644 62.03% 2,223 37.84% 8 0.14% 1,421 24.19% 5,875
Comanche 2,851 74.65% 962 25.19% 6 0.16% 1,889 49.46% 3,819
Concho 948 75.48% 307 24.44% 1 0.08% 641 51.04% 1,256
Cooke 4,083 56.62% 3,117 43.23% 11 0.15% 966 13.39% 7,211
Coryell 3,679 80.61% 877 19.22% 8 0.18% 2,802 61.39% 4,564
Cottle 1,122 82.93% 230 17.00% 1 0.07% 892 65.93% 1,353
Crane 919 58.95% 637 40.86% 3 0.19% 282 18.09% 1,559
Crockett 799 65.98% 409 33.77% 3 0.25% 390 32.21% 1,211
Crosby 2,278 78.77% 611 21.13% 3 0.10% 1,667 57.64% 2,892
Culberson 473 60.10% 314 39.90% 0 0.00% 159 20.20% 787
Dallam 1,058 60.15% 700 39.80% 1 0.06% 358 20.35% 1,759
Dallas 166,472 54.73% 137,065 45.06% 621 0.20% 29,407 9.67% 304,158
Dawson 3,171 65.14% 1,691 34.74% 6 0.12% 1,480 30.40% 4,868
Deaf Smith 2,094 53.73% 1,793 46.01% 10 0.26% 301 7.72% 3,897
Delta 1,619 82.60% 339 17.30% 2 0.10% 1,280 65.30% 1,960
Denton 9,137 67.71% 4,335 32.13% 22 0.16% 4,802 35.58% 13,494
Dewitt 3,286 58.96% 2,283 40.97% 4 0.07% 1,003 17.99% 5,573
Dickens 1,324 79.42% 339 20.34% 4 0.24% 985 59.08% 1,667
Dimmit 1,184 70.14% 501 29.68% 3 0.18% 683 40.46% 1,688
Donley 1,068 60.14% 708 39.86% 0 0.00% 360 20.28% 1,776
Duval 4,432 92.55% 353 7.37% 4 0.08% 4,079 85.18% 4,789
Eastland 4,692 69.49% 2,049 30.35% 11 0.16% 2,643 39.14% 6,752
Ector 10,826 48.36% 11,497 51.36% 63 0.28% -671 -3.00% 22,386
Edwards 337 47.33% 371 52.11% 4 0.56% -34 -4.78% 712
Ellis 7,278 72.33% 2,779 27.62% 5 0.05% 4,499 44.71% 10,062
El Paso 35,050 62.67% 20,687 36.99% 190 0.34% 14,363 25.68% 55,927
Erath 3,851 70.04% 1,642 29.87% 5 0.09% 2,209 40.17% 5,498
Falls 3,933 76.35% 1,216 23.61% 2 0.04% 2,717 52.74% 5,151
Fannin 5,976 83.00% 1,219 16.93% 5 0.07% 4,757 66.07% 7,200
Fayette 3,630 63.94% 2,036 35.86% 11 0.19% 1,594 28.08% 5,677
Fisher 2,108 82.12% 454 17.69% 5 0.19% 1,654 64.43% 2,567
Floyd 2,383 65.81% 1,229 33.94% 9 0.25% 1,154 31.87% 3,621
Foard 833 85.00% 146 14.90% 1 0.10% 687 70.10% 980
Fort Bend 6,186 63.78% 3,493 36.01% 20 0.21% 2,693 27.77% 9,699
Franklin 1,520 78.19% 424 21.81% 0 0.00% 1,096 56.38% 1,944
Freestone 2,816 72.35% 1,074 27.60% 2 0.05% 1,742 44.75% 3,892
Frio 1,507 71.19% 607 28.67% 3 0.14% 900 42.52% 2,117
Gaines 2,045 63.89% 1,153 36.02% 3 0.09% 892 27.87% 3,201
Galveston 30,672 71.04% 12,365 28.64% 136 0.32% 18,307 42.40% 43,173
Garza 1,254 68.64% 567 31.03% 6 0.33% 687 37.61% 1,827
Gillespie 2,264 57.17% 1,695 42.80% 1 0.03% 569 14.37% 3,960
Glasscock 179 49.31% 183 50.41% 1 0.28% -4 -1.10% 363
Goliad 990 64.24% 549 35.63% 2 0.13% 441 28.61% 1,541
Gonzales 3,348 73.66% 1,190 26.18% 7 0.15% 2,158 47.48% 4,545
Gray 3,633 42.00% 5,011 57.93% 6 0.07% -1,378 -15.93% 8,650
Grayson 14,207 72.01% 5,500 27.88% 21 0.11% 8,707 44.13% 19,728
Gregg 8,741 42.47% 11,761 57.14% 82 0.40% -3,020 -14.67% 20,584
Grimes 2,229 68.65% 1,014 31.23% 4 0.12% 1,215 37.42% 3,247
Guadalupe 4,568 62.51% 2,731 37.37% 9 0.12% 1,837 25.14% 7,308
Hale 5,910 61.60% 3,666 38.21% 18 0.19% 2,244 23.39% 9,594
Hall 1,785 72.77% 667 27.19% 1 0.04% 1,118 45.58% 2,453
Hamilton 2,048 67.02% 1,006 32.92% 2 0.07% 1,042 34.10% 3,056
Hansford 860 41.83% 1,193 58.03% 3 0.15% -333 -16.20% 2,056
Hardeman 1,835 72.47% 697 27.53% 0 0.00% 1,138 44.94% 2,532
Hardin 5,143 71.97% 1,987 27.81% 16 0.22% 3,156 44.16% 7,146
Harris 227,819 59.49% 154,401 40.32% 765 0.20% 73,418 19.17% 382,985
Harrison 6,351 53.24% 5,568 46.67% 11 0.09% 783 6.57% 11,930
Hartley 565 56.33% 437 43.57% 1 0.10% 128 12.76% 1,003
Haskell 2,903 84.86% 512 14.97% 6 0.18% 2,391 69.89% 3,421
Hays 3,780 74.64% 1,279 25.26% 5 0.10% 2,501 49.38% 5,064
Hemphill 649 53.50% 563 46.41% 1 0.08% 86 7.09% 1,213
Henderson 4,697 69.96% 1,988 29.61% 29 0.43% 2,709 40.35% 6,714
Hidalgo 22,110 65.50% 11,563 34.25% 83 0.25% 10,547 31.25% 33,756
Hill 5,130 76.61% 1,557 23.25% 9 0.13% 3,573 53.36% 6,696
Hockley 4,049 70.63% 1,674 29.20% 10 0.17% 2,375 41.43% 5,733
Hood 1,661 79.59% 423 20.27% 3 0.14% 1,238 59.32% 2,087
Hopkins 4,133 73.14% 1,518 26.86% 0 0.00% 2,615 46.28% 5,651
Houston 3,681 68.60% 1,675 31.22% 10 0.19% 2,006 37.38% 5,366
Howard 6,083 64.94% 3,272 34.93% 12 0.13% 2,811 30.01% 9,367
Hudspeth 438 65.86% 224 33.68% 3 0.45% 214 32.18% 665
Hunt 6,567 66.47% 3,302 33.42% 10 0.10% 3,265 33.05% 9,879
Hutchinson 4,625 46.25% 5,358 53.58% 17 0.17% -733 -7.33% 10,000
Irion 351 63.82% 199 36.18% 0 0.00% 152 27.64% 550
Jack 1,594 65.22% 847 34.66% 3 0.12% 747 30.56% 2,444
Jackson 2,775 70.22% 1,168 29.55% 9 0.23% 1,607 40.67% 3,952
Jasper 3,600 65.02% 1,919 34.66% 18 0.33% 1,681 30.36% 5,537
Jeff Davis 304 63.47% 174 36.33% 1 0.21% 130 27.14% 479
Jefferson 44,584 60.58% 28,771 39.09% 239 0.32% 15,813 21.49% 73,594
Jim Hogg 1,375 89.87% 152 9.93% 3 0.20% 1,223 79.94% 1,530
Jim Wells 6,849 77.50% 1,988 22.50% 0 0.00% 4,861 55.00% 8,837
Johnson 6,381 66.18% 3,251 33.72% 10 0.10% 3,130 32.46% 9,642
Jones 3,622 73.62% 1,295 26.32% 3 0.06% 2,327 47.30% 4,920
Karnes 3,178 76.08% 993 23.77% 6 0.14% 2,185 52.31% 4,177
Kaufman 4,766 71.20% 1,922 28.71% 6 0.09% 2,844 42.49% 6,694
Kendall 970 44.64% 1,200 55.22% 3 0.14% -230 -10.58% 2,173
Kenedy 115 78.77% 30 20.55% 1 0.68% 85 58.22% 146
Kent 563 83.04% 115 16.96% 0 0.00% 448 66.08% 678
Kerr 2,894 51.60% 2,706 48.25% 8 0.14% 188 3.35% 5,608
Kimble 862 62.33% 520 37.60% 1 0.07% 342 24.73% 1,383
King 180 84.11% 34 15.89% 0 0.00% 146 68.22% 214
Kinney 439 73.91% 155 26.09% 0 0.00% 284 47.82% 594
Kleberg 4,568 73.32% 1,652 26.52% 10 0.16% 2,916 46.80% 6,230
Knox 1,773 80.01% 439 19.81% 4 0.18% 1,334 60.20% 2,216
Lamar 6,303 70.78% 2,594 29.13% 8 0.09% 3,709 41.65% 8,905
Lamb 4,318 68.01% 2,022 31.85% 9 0.14% 2,296 36.16% 6,349
Lampasas 2,224 74.88% 744 25.05% 2 0.07% 1,480 49.83% 2,970
La Salle 988 81.52% 223 18.40% 1 0.08% 765 63.12% 1,212
Lavaca 4,031 73.07% 1,480 26.83% 6 0.11% 2,551 46.24% 5,517
Lee 1,884 67.07% 923 32.86% 2 0.07% 961 34.21% 2,809
Leon 2,373 78.52% 642 21.24% 7 0.23% 1,731 57.28% 3,022
Liberty 5,357 64.88% 2,884 34.93% 16 0.19% 2,473 29.95% 8,257
Limestone 3,777 71.77% 1,478 28.08% 8 0.15% 2,299 43.69% 5,263
Lipscomb 589 43.57% 763 56.43% 0 0.00% -174 -12.86% 1,352
Live Oak 1,423 63.93% 795 35.71% 8 0.36% 628 28.22% 2,226
Llano 1,727 72.44% 655 27.47% 2 0.08% 1,072 44.97% 2,384
Loving 46 58.23% 32 40.51% 1 1.27% 14 17.72% 79
Lubbock 22,057 55.89% 17,372 44.02% 34 0.09% 4,685 11.87% 39,463
Lynn 2,281 75.28% 745 24.59% 4 0.13% 1,536 50.69% 3,030
McCulloch 2,100 76.06% 655 23.72% 6 0.22% 1,445 52.34% 2,761
McLennan 28,429 72.25% 10,892 27.68% 25 0.06% 17,537 44.57% 39,346
McMullen 267 60.27% 175 39.50% 1 0.23% 92 20.77% 443
Madison 1,298 66.74% 644 33.11% 3 0.15% 654 33.63% 1,945
Marion 1,372 59.57% 927 40.25% 4 0.17% 445 19.32% 2,303
Martin 892 68.77% 402 30.99% 3 0.23% 490 37.78% 1,297
Mason 941 61.30% 590 38.44% 4 0.26% 351 22.86% 1,535
Matagorda 4,143 63.20% 2,407 36.72% 5 0.08% 1,736 26.48% 6,555
Maverick 2,113 79.41% 545 20.48% 3 0.11% 1,568 58.93% 2,661
Medina 3,408 68.27% 1,583 31.71% 1 0.02% 1,825 36.56% 4,992
Menard 588 59.70% 397 40.30% 0 0.00% 191 19.40% 985
Midland 8,646 41.96% 11,906 57.78% 53 0.26% -3,260 -15.82% 20,605
Milam 4,368 76.51% 1,334 23.37% 7 0.12% 3,034 53.14% 5,709
Mills 1,228 71.27% 495 28.73% 0 0.00% 733 42.54% 1,723
Mitchell 2,420 76.61% 737 23.33% 2 0.06% 1,683 53.28% 3,159
Montague 3,746 77.14% 1,106 22.78% 4 0.08% 2,640 54.36% 4,856
Montgomery 4,989 60.87% 3,167 38.64% 40 0.49% 1,822 22.23% 8,196
Moore 2,393 57.54% 1,762 42.37% 4 0.10% 631 15.17% 4,159
Morris 2,366 65.83% 1,218 33.89% 10 0.28% 1,148 31.94% 3,594
Motley 678 67.53% 324 32.27% 2 0.20% 354 35.26% 1,004
Nacogdoches 4,524 60.17% 2,976 39.58% 19 0.25% 1,548 20.59% 7,519
Navarro 6,811 76.08% 2,139 23.89% 3 0.03% 4,672 52.19% 8,953
Newton 2,211 74.82% 738 24.97% 6 0.20% 1,473 49.85% 2,955
Nolan 3,540 68.58% 1,610 31.19% 12 0.23% 1,930 37.39% 5,162
Nueces 40,426 74.10% 14,048 25.75% 84 0.15% 26,378 48.35% 54,558
Ochiltree 920 33.61% 1,814 66.28% 3 0.11% -894 -32.67% 2,737
Oldham 397 59.25% 269 40.15% 4 0.60% 128 19.10% 670
Orange 9,390 60.02% 6,216 39.73% 39 0.25% 3,174 20.29% 15,645
Palo Pinto 3,791 68.42% 1,748 31.55% 2 0.04% 2,043 36.87% 5,541
Panola 2,608 47.97% 2,818 51.83% 11 0.20% -210 -3.86% 5,437
Parker 5,270 70.66% 2,175 29.16% 13 0.17% 3,095 41.50% 7,458
Parmer 1,556 55.99% 1,216 43.76% 7 0.25% 340 12.23% 2,779
Pecos 2,068 59.55% 1,393 40.11% 12 0.35% 675 19.44% 3,473
Polk 2,492 67.35% 1,199 32.41% 9 0.24% 1,293 34.94% 3,700
Potter 12,850 52.62% 11,505 47.11% 64 0.26% 1,345 5.51% 24,419
Presidio 1,156 72.80% 431 27.14% 1 0.06% 725 45.66% 1,588
Rains 893 76.46% 272 23.29% 3 0.26% 621 53.17% 1,168
Randall 6,016 43.34% 7,843 56.50% 22 0.16% -1,827 -13.16% 13,881
Reagan 614 60.08% 406 39.73% 2 0.20% 208 20.35% 1,022
Real 487 65.55% 255 34.32% 1 0.13% 232 31.23% 743
Red River 3,391 72.86% 1,257 27.01% 6 0.13% 2,134 45.85% 4,654
Reeves 2,340 65.09% 1,251 34.80% 4 0.11% 1,089 30.29% 3,595
Refugio 2,319 75.02% 772 24.98% 0 0.00% 1,547 50.04% 3,091
Roberts 198 40.00% 297 60.00% 0 0.00% -99 -20.00% 495
Robertson 3,350 78.88% 895 21.07% 2 0.05% 2,455 57.81% 4,247
Rockwall 1,305 74.36% 445 25.36% 5 0.28% 860 49.00% 1,755
Runnels 2,645 64.01% 1,480 35.82% 7 0.17% 1,165 28.19% 4,132
Rusk 6,528 54.25% 5,488 45.61% 17 0.14% 1,040 8.64% 12,033
Sabine 1,801 80.76% 428 19.19% 1 0.04% 1,373 61.57% 2,230
San Augustine 1,173 60.46% 760 39.18% 7 0.36% 413 21.28% 1,940
San Jacinto 1,680 82.92% 343 16.93% 3 0.15% 1,337 65.99% 2,026
San Patricio 7,176 76.47% 2,188 23.32% 20 0.21% 4,988 53.15% 9,384
San Saba 1,859 81.64% 418 18.36% 0 0.00% 1,441 63.28% 2,277
Schleicher 514 56.92% 388 42.97% 1 0.11% 126 13.95% 903
Scurry 3,381 65.82% 1,741 33.89% 15 0.29% 1,640 31.93% 5,137
Shackelford 934 65.59% 487 34.20% 3 0.21% 447 31.39% 1,424
Shelby 3,487 61.06% 2,220 38.87% 4 0.07% 1,267 22.19% 5,711
Sherman 462 42.31% 629 57.60% 1 0.09% -167 -15.29% 1,092
Smith 12,474 48.97% 12,960 50.88% 38 0.15% -486 -1.91% 25,472
Somervell 641 75.06% 210 24.59% 3 0.35% 431 50.47% 854
Starr 4,056 85.53% 678 14.30% 8 0.17% 3,378 71.23% 4,742
Stephens 1,753 61.00% 1,119 38.94% 2 0.07% 634 22.06% 2,874
Sterling 243 63.28% 140 36.46% 1 0.26% 103 26.82% 384
Stonewall 978 81.57% 219 18.27% 2 0.17% 759 63.30% 1,199
Sutton 694 66.03% 357 33.97% 0 0.00% 337 32.06% 1,051
Swisher 2,410 74.61% 815 25.23% 5 0.15% 1,595 49.38% 3,230
Tarrant 97,092 62.98% 56,593 36.71% 473 0.31% 40,499 26.27% 154,158
Taylor 13,366 59.09% 9,220 40.76% 34 0.15% 4,146 18.33% 22,620
Terrell 364 55.32% 294 44.68% 0 0.00% 70 10.64% 658
Terry 3,034 65.50% 1,592 34.37% 6 0.13% 1,442 31.13% 4,632
Throckmorton 883 78.14% 247 21.86% 0 0.00% 636 56.28% 1,130
Titus 3,528 67.60% 1,687 32.32% 4 0.08% 1,841 35.28% 5,219
Tom Green 9,767 59.40% 6,664 40.53% 12 0.07% 3,103 18.87% 16,443
Travis 44,058 68.89% 19,838 31.02% 62 0.10% 24,220 37.87% 63,958
Trinity 1,654 68.12% 763 31.43% 11 0.45% 891 36.69% 2,428
Tyler 1,818 59.86% 1,216 40.04% 3 0.10% 602 19.82% 3,037
Upshur 4,027 64.31% 2,222 35.48% 13 0.21% 1,805 28.83% 6,262
Upton 958 59.73% 636 39.65% 10 0.62% 322 20.08% 1,604
Uvalde 2,358 54.51% 1,963 45.38% 5 0.12% 395 9.13% 4,326
Val Verde 3,555 72.52% 1,346 27.46% 1 0.02% 2,209 45.06% 4,902
Van Zandt 4,047 71.30% 1,614 28.44% 15 0.26% 2,433 42.86% 5,676
Victoria 8,141 65.83% 4,201 33.97% 25 0.20% 3,940 31.86% 12,367
Walker 2,877 64.86% 1,557 35.10% 2 0.05% 1,320 29.76% 4,436
Waller 2,167 68.82% 980 31.12% 2 0.06% 1,187 37.70% 3,149
Ward 2,221 56.17% 1,730 43.75% 3 0.08% 491 12.42% 3,954
Washington 2,938 59.21% 2,019 40.69% 5 0.10% 919 18.52% 4,962
Webb 10,073 90.08% 1,094 9.78% 15 0.13% 8,979 80.30% 11,182
Wharton 6,234 69.11% 2,775 30.76% 11 0.12% 3,459 38.35% 9,020
Wheeler 1,440 55.81% 1,138 44.11% 2 0.08% 302 11.70% 2,580
Wichita 19,131 68.99% 8,585 30.96% 14 0.05% 10,546 38.03% 27,730
Wilbarger 3,200 67.48% 1,539 32.45% 3 0.06% 1,661 35.03% 4,742
Willacy 2,152 63.52% 1,230 36.30% 6 0.18% 922 27.22% 3,388
Williamson 7,430 80.74% 1,766 19.19% 6 0.07% 5,664 61.55% 9,202
Wilson 3,472 82.77% 718 17.12% 5 0.12% 2,754 65.65% 4,195
Winkler 2,059 55.97% 1,617 43.95% 3 0.08% 442 12.02% 3,679
Wise 3,852 73.50% 1,386 26.45% 3 0.06% 2,466 47.05% 5,241
Wood 3,528 62.93% 2,068 36.89% 10 0.18% 1,460 26.04% 5,606
Yoakum 1,415 62.06% 859 37.68% 6 0.26% 556 24.38% 2,280
Young 3,395 67.95% 1,600 32.03% 1 0.02% 1,795 35.92% 4,996
Zapata 1,009 87.97% 135 11.77% 3 0.26% 874 76.20% 1,147
Zavala 1,784 74.80% 598 25.07% 3 0.13% 1,186 49.73% 2,385
Totals1,663,18563.32%958,56636.49%5,0600.19%704,61926.83%2,626,811

Analysis

The home state of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas was easily his best state in the former Confederacy, although he did better still in four of the five border states. Overall Texas was Johnson’s nineteenth best state in the election and weighed in at 4.25% points more Democratic than the national average. Johnson won every region in the state by wide margins, including those which had begun trending Republican in recent presidential elections such as the Texas Panhandle, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and Metro Houston. Every major city in the state voted for Johnson, including every mid-sized city with the exceptions of Odessa, Midland, Tyler, and Longview, which were won by Goldwater.

Two counties in the northern Panhandle, Ochiltree and Roberts, gave Goldwater over sixty percent of the vote, further reflecting this region’s trend towards the Republican Party. Given that it was also Johnson’s home county, Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country voted Democratic for the only time since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landslide in the 1932 election, in which he carried every county.[3] This is the only presidential election between 1952 and 2008 that Dallas and Harris counties voted for the Democratic candidate. Dallas in particular likely swung towards Johnson due to the city still being in mourning from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred less than a year before the election. Despite this strong swing, Johnson only carried Dallas County by a 9.6% margin.

President Johnson carried 238 out of the state’s 254 counties, and all twenty-three congressional districts. The 1964 election marks the last time a Democratic candidate for president won Texas with over sixty percent of the vote, won the state with a double-digit margin, and carried any counties with over ninety percent of the vote (in this case, the South Texas counties of Duval and Webb). Webb, Duval and Jim Hogg counties stood among the four most Democratic in the nation.[4]

Aside from Johnson's home county Gillespie as mentioned above, this remains the last election as of the 2020 presidential election in which the counties of Andrews, Austin, Bandera, Brazos, Collin, Comal, Cooke, Crane, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Denton, DeWitt, Guadalupe, Hartley, Hemphill, Irion, Kerr, Kimble, Loving, Lubbock, McMullen, Montgomery, Potter, Reagan, Runnels, Rusk, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Taylor, Tom Green, Upton, Uvalde, Victoria, Washington, Winkler, and Yoakum voted for the Democratic presidential candidate. Dallas County and Harris County, the two most populous in the state, would not vote Democratic again until Barack Obama won them in 2008; Fort Bend County, a Houston suburb, would not vote Democratic again until Hillary Clinton won it in 2016; and Tarrant County, the third most populous county and home to the long-conservative Fort Worth suburbs, would not vote Democratic again until Joe Biden won it in 2020. This is also the last time a Democratic candidate won every county in the Texas Triangle.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1964 Presidential General Election Results - Texas". Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 451–455 ISBN 0405077114
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  4. ↑ Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1964 Presidential Election Statistics
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