1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota
|
|
|
 County results Johnson 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% | Goldwater 50–60% 70–80% |
|
|
The1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose four[1] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
South Dakota was won byincumbent PresidentLyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 55.61 percent of the popular vote, againstSenatorBarry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 44.39% of the popular vote.[2][3] As of2024, this is the only presidential race since1936 where South Dakota voted Democrat (although it nearly did so in1976 forJimmy Carter), as well as the last time a Democrat won any of the following counties:Pennington,Lincoln,Meade,Yankton,Custer,Bennett,Clark,Hamlin,Hand,Hyde,Jackson,Jones,Lyman,Mellette,Potter,Stanley,Tripp, andWalworth. This is also the last time that South Dakota voted more Republican than North Dakota, and the last of only 5 times since statehood that South Dakota voted against the Republican presidential nominee.[4]
| County[5] | Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic | Barry Goldwater
Republican | Margin | Total votes cast |
|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % |
|---|
| Aurora | 1,555 | 64.10% | 871 | 35.90% | 684 | 28.20% | 2,426 |
| Beadle | 5,968 | 59.57% | 4,051 | 40.43% | 1,917 | 19.14% | 10,019 |
| Bennett | 775 | 55.40% | 624 | 44.60% | 151 | 10.80% | 1,399 |
| Bon Homme | 2,494 | 58.30% | 1,784 | 41.70% | 710 | 16.60% | 4,278 |
| Brookings | 4,191 | 53.17% | 3,692 | 46.83% | 499 | 6.34% | 7,883 |
| Brown | 9,107 | 62.24% | 5,524 | 37.76% | 3,583 | 24.48% | 14,631 |
| Brule | 2,205 | 69.49% | 968 | 30.51% | 1,237 | 38.98% | 3,173 |
| Buffalo | 501 | 64.31% | 278 | 35.69% | 223 | 28.62% | 779 |
| Butte | 1,863 | 49.81% | 1,877 | 50.19% | -14 | -0.38% | 3,740 |
| Campbell | 411 | 26.13% | 1,162 | 73.87% | -751 | -47.74% | 1,573 |
| Charles Mix | 3,488 | 68.22% | 1,625 | 31.78% | 1,863 | 36.44% | 5,113 |
| Clark | 1,771 | 53.96% | 1,511 | 46.04% | 260 | 7.92% | 3,282 |
| Clay | 2,599 | 59.05% | 1,802 | 40.95% | 797 | 18.10% | 4,401 |
| Codington | 5,353 | 59.84% | 3,593 | 40.16% | 1,760 | 19.68% | 8,946 |
| Corson | 1,328 | 56.22% | 1,034 | 43.78% | 294 | 12.44% | 2,362 |
| Custer | 1,176 | 50.73% | 1,142 | 49.27% | 34 | 1.46% | 2,318 |
| Davison | 4,861 | 63.54% | 2,789 | 36.46% | 2,072 | 27.08% | 7,650 |
| Day | 3,235 | 62.83% | 1,914 | 37.17% | 1,321 | 25.66% | 5,149 |
| Deuel | 1,524 | 53.64% | 1,317 | 46.36% | 207 | 7.28% | 2,841 |
| Dewey | 1,259 | 56.21% | 981 | 43.79% | 278 | 12.42% | 2,240 |
| Douglas | 1,149 | 49.14% | 1,189 | 50.86% | -40 | -1.72% | 2,338 |
| Edmunds | 1,708 | 54.22% | 1,442 | 45.78% | 266 | 8.44% | 3,150 |
| Fall River | 1,706 | 45.71% | 2,026 | 54.29% | -320 | -8.58% | 3,732 |
| Faulk | 1,225 | 55.71% | 974 | 44.29% | 251 | 11.42% | 2,199 |
| Grant | 2,583 | 58.22% | 1,854 | 41.78% | 729 | 16.44% | 4,437 |
| Gregory | 1,995 | 54.82% | 1,644 | 45.18% | 351 | 9.64% | 3,639 |
| Haakon | 662 | 45.44% | 795 | 54.56% | -133 | -9.12% | 1,457 |
| Hamlin | 1,561 | 50.58% | 1,525 | 49.42% | 36 | 1.16% | 3,086 |
| Hand | 1,563 | 51.60% | 1,466 | 48.40% | 97 | 3.20% | 3,029 |
| Hanson | 1,232 | 60.57% | 802 | 39.43% | 430 | 21.14% | 2,034 |
| Harding | 487 | 49.90% | 489 | 50.10% | -2 | -0.20% | 976 |
| Hughes | 2,606 | 48.82% | 2,732 | 51.18% | -126 | -2.36% | 5,338 |
| Hutchinson | 2,189 | 43.15% | 2,884 | 56.85% | -695 | -13.70% | 5,073 |
| Hyde | 736 | 52.50% | 666 | 47.50% | 70 | 5.00% | 1,402 |
| Jackson | 480 | 51.72% | 448 | 48.28% | 32 | 3.44% | 928 |
| Jerauld | 999 | 53.83% | 857 | 46.17% | 142 | 7.66% | 1,856 |
| Jones | 548 | 56.91% | 415 | 43.09% | 133 | 13.82% | 963 |
| Kingsbury | 2,005 | 48.54% | 2,126 | 51.46% | -121 | -2.92% | 4,131 |
| Lake | 2,988 | 55.28% | 2,417 | 44.72% | 571 | 10.56% | 5,405 |
| Lawrence | 3,468 | 48.09% | 3,743 | 51.91% | -275 | -3.82% | 7,211 |
| Lincoln | 2,836 | 50.86% | 2,740 | 49.14% | 96 | 1.72% | 5,576 |
| Lyman | 1,057 | 55.08% | 862 | 44.92% | 195 | 10.16% | 1,919 |
| Marshall | 2,063 | 63.56% | 1,183 | 36.44% | 880 | 27.12% | 3,246 |
| McCook | 2,181 | 55.40% | 1,756 | 44.60% | 425 | 10.80% | 3,937 |
| McPherson | 723 | 27.66% | 1,891 | 72.34% | -1,168 | -44.68% | 2,614 |
| Meade | 2,323 | 52.05% | 2,140 | 47.95% | 183 | 4.10% | 4,463 |
| Mellette | 658 | 55.62% | 525 | 44.38% | 133 | 11.24% | 1,183 |
| Miner | 1,679 | 63.99% | 945 | 36.01% | 734 | 27.98% | 2,624 |
| Minnehaha | 20,929 | 55.52% | 16,766 | 44.48% | 4,163 | 11.04% | 37,695 |
| Moody | 2,301 | 61.16% | 1,461 | 38.84% | 840 | 22.32% | 3,762 |
| Pennington | 9,881 | 52.54% | 8,926 | 47.46% | 955 | 5.08% | 18,807 |
| Perkins | 1,255 | 47.11% | 1,409 | 52.89% | -154 | -5.78% | 2,664 |
| Potter | 1,260 | 56.91% | 954 | 43.09% | 306 | 13.82% | 2,214 |
| Roberts | 3,567 | 64.88% | 1,931 | 35.12% | 1,636 | 29.76% | 5,498 |
| Sanborn | 1,401 | 60.57% | 912 | 39.43% | 489 | 21.14% | 2,313 |
| Shannon | 1,748 | 75.84% | 557 | 24.16% | 1,191 | 51.68% | 2,305 |
| Spink | 3,120 | 61.50% | 1,953 | 38.50% | 1,167 | 23.00% | 5,073 |
| Stanley | 750 | 57.74% | 549 | 42.26% | 201 | 15.48% | 1,299 |
| Sully | 596 | 47.19% | 667 | 52.81% | -71 | -5.62% | 1,263 |
| Todd | 1,274 | 63.80% | 723 | 36.20% | 551 | 27.60% | 1,997 |
| Tripp | 2,241 | 53.64% | 1,937 | 46.36% | 304 | 7.28% | 4,178 |
| Turner | 2,184 | 43.42% | 2,846 | 56.58% | -662 | -13.16% | 5,030 |
| Union | 2,828 | 62.09% | 1,727 | 37.91% | 1,101 | 24.18% | 4,555 |
| Walworth | 1,952 | 51.35% | 1,849 | 48.65% | 103 | 2.70% | 3,801 |
| Washabaugh | 348 | 62.25% | 211 | 37.75% | 137 | 24.50% | 559 |
| Yankton | 3,747 | 53.87% | 3,208 | 46.13% | 539 | 7.74% | 6,955 |
| Ziebach | 554 | 55.34% | 447 | 44.66% | 107 | 10.68% | 1,001 |
| Totals | 163,010 | 55.61% | 130,108 | 44.39% | 32,902 | 11.22% | 293,118 |
|---|
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]
.jpg)
