1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota
November 3, 1964
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| Elections in South Dakota |
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The 1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose four[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 55.61 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 44.39% of the popular vote.[2][3] As of 2024, this is the only presidential race since 1936 where South Dakota voted Democrat (although it nearly did so in 1976 for Jimmy 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, and Walworth. 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]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) | 163,010 | 55.61% | |
| Republican | Barry Goldwater | 130,108 | 44.39% | |
| Total votes | 293,118 | 100% | ||
Results by county
| 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
- Beadle
- Bennett
- Bon Homme
- Brookings
- Brown
- Clark
- Clay
- Codington
- Corson
- Dewey
- Custer
- Deuel
- Edmunds
- Faulk
- Gregory
- Grant
- Hyde
- Hand
- Hamlin
- Jackson
- Jerauld
- Jones
- Lake
- Lincoln
- Lyman
- McCook
- Meade
- Marshall
- Mellette
- Miner
- Minnehaha
- Moody
- Pennington
- Potter
- Sanborn
- Spink
- Union
- Tripp
- Todd
- Walworth
- Washabaugh
- Yankton
- Ziebach
See also
References
- ^ "1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)". Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- ^ "1964 Presidential General Election Results - South Dakota". Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1964". Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016.
- ^ Our Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 03, 1964