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The1964 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 3, 1964, as part of thenationwide presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Alaska was won by incumbent PresidentLyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) with 65.9% of the popular vote against U.S. SenatorBarry Goldwater (R-Arizona) with 34.1%.[1] Johnson won the national vote as well, defeating Goldwater and serving a full term after finishing theassassinatedJohn F. Kennedy's term.
Johnson's victory in Alaska is the first and only time a Democrat has carried the state, which came amidst a landslide victory in rest of the country (except for theDeep South and Goldwater's home state ofArizona),[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 from1972 onwards.[2] This is also the last and only time a candidate swept every county in Alaska.
| 1964 United States presidential election in Alaska[1] | |||||
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| 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 | ||
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 byRonald Reagan in his1984 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.
As of the2024 presidential election, this is the only time thatMatanuska-Susitna,Wrangell,Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, andKetchikan Gateway voted for a Democratic candidate.[3] TheAleutians East,Bristol Bay,Fairbanks North Star,Kodiak Island, andDenali have also not voted Democratic since.Anchorage would not vote for the Democratic candidate again until2020.
Alaska was one of three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two beingVermont (which also had never gone to a Democrat before) andGeorgia (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, and broke a streak lasting more than a century.
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