Who won Mississippi in the 1964 presidential election?

Goldwater (Republican) carried Mississippi in 1964, winning its 7 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 1964?

Mississippi cast 7 electoral votes in the 1964 presidential election.

Did Mississippi vote for the national winner in 1964?

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

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1964

Mississippi: Goldwater carries 7 EV.

Mississippi cast its 7 electoral votes for Goldwater (Republican). National winner: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) — Mississippi voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Mississippi, 1964

In 1964, Mississippi awarded its 7 electoral votes to Goldwater of the Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Mississippi among the states he did not carry.

Goldwater's win closed out Mississippi's 3-election run of voting Democratic. The region divided — Louisiana and Alabama joined Mississippi for the Republican ticket, while Arkansas and Tennessee did not. Across the 51 presidential elections Mississippi has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 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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