Who won Georgia in the 1964 presidential election?

Goldwater (Republican) carried Georgia in 1964, winning its 12 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 1964?

Georgia cast 12 electoral votes in the 1964 presidential election.

Did Georgia vote for the national winner in 1964?

No. Georgia backed Goldwater, while Lyndon B. Johnson won the presidency nationally.

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1964

Georgia: Goldwater carries 12 EV.

Georgia cast its 12 electoral votes for Goldwater (Republican). National winner: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) — Georgia voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1964 result in Georgia

Georgia backed Goldwater (Republican) in the 1964 presidential election, casting 12 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Georgia among the states he did not carry.

Goldwater's win closed out Georgia's 24-election run of voting Democratic. The region divided — Alabama and South Carolina joined Georgia for the Republican ticket, while Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina did not. Across the 59 presidential elections Georgia has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (34 times). The vote fell within the New Deal Coalition — FDR, civil rights, and the long Democratic majority.

In the national count, Lyndon B. Johnson took 486 of the 538 electoral votes, against Barry Goldwater's 52. Lyndon B. Johnson led the national popular vote with 61.05% of the ballots cast.

The 1964 national map

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