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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
✓ Won
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democrat
Lyndon B. Johnson
486
Electoral votes
61.1% · 43,292,937
President · The New Deal Order

1964

Johnson def. Goldwater, 486–52
vote totals summed from county returns
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Barry Goldwater
52
Electoral votes
38.5% · 27,154,933
Electoral college — 270 to win (538 electors)486 D · 52 R
Popular vote61.1% · 38.5% · margin D+22.6

70,573,868 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
R+40D+40third party won

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1960 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

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R+40D+40no returns

Who Voted for Whom

The American electorate by income, education, faith and more

How each slice of the electorate split between the parties — by their own account. Weighted ANES self-reports from a national sample: they tilt slightly toward the winner and carry no county detail.

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Notes on this election

  • Johnson's 61.1% is the record Democratic share. Goldwater carried the Deep South while losing 44 states — the racial realignment made visible.