1964 United States presidential election in Maryland
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1964 United States presidential election in Maryland
| country = Maryland
| flag_year = 1904
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1960 United States presidential election in Maryland
| previous_year = 1960
| next_election = 1968 United States presidential election in Maryland
| next_year = 1968
| election_date = November 3, 1964
| image_size = x200px
| image1 = File:37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4 (cropped).jpg
| nominee1 = Lyndon B. Johnson
| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
| home_state1 = Texas
| running_mate1 = Hubert Humphrey
| electoral_vote1 = 10
| popular_vote1 = 730,912
| percentage1 = 65.47%
| image2 = File:Barry-Goldwater 1968.webp
| nominee2 = Barry Goldwater
| party2 = Republican Party (United States)
| home_state2 = Arizona
| running_mate2 = William E. Miller
| electoral_vote2 = 0
| popular_vote2 = 385,495
| percentage2 = 34.53%
| map_image = 375px
| map_size = 350px
| map_caption = County Results
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{{col-2}}
Johnson
{{legend|#86b6f2|50-60%}}
{{legend|#4389e3|60-70%}}
{{legend|#1666cb|70-80%}}
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Goldwater
{{legend|#e27f90|50-60%}}
{{col-end}}
| title = President
| before_election = Lyndon B. Johnson
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = Lyndon B. Johnson
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Elections in Maryland sidebar}}
The 1964 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1965_1969.html#1964|title=1964 Election for the Forty-Fifth Term (1965-69)|access-date=May 30, 2017}} representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Primary
=Democratic primary=
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1964 Maryland Democratic presidential primary
| country = Maryland
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1960 United States presidential election in Maryland
| previous_year = 1960
| next_election = 1968 United States presidential election in Maryland
| next_year = 1968
| election_date = {{Start date|1964|05|19}}
| votes_for_election =
| image1 = 150x150px
| candidate1 = Daniel Brewster
| home_state1 = Maryland
| color1 = 668c63
| popular_vote1 = 267,106
| percentage1 = 53.14%
| image2 = 150x150px
| candidate2 = George Wallace
| home_state2 = Alabama
| color2 = c13649
| popular_vote2 = 214,849
| percentage2 = 42.75%
| map_image = 1964 Maryland Democratic presidential primary election results by county.svg
| map_size =300px
| map_caption =
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County Results
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Brewster
{{legend|#B1C9B2|40-50%}}
{{legend|#8BAB8A|50-60%}}
{{legend|#668C63|60-70%}}
{{legend|#527551|70-80%}}
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Wallace
{{legend|#E8969A|40-50%}}
{{legend|#D6646F|50-60%}}
{{legend|#C13649|60-70%}}
{{legend|#A22A35|70-80%}}
{{legend|#821F24|80-90%}}
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}}
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right;"
|+ style="background-color:#f2f2f2;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:0.2em 0.4em" | 1964 Maryland Democratic presidential primary{{cite web|title=OurCampaigns|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=35976|access-date=June 26, 2024}} ! style="text-align:left;" | Candidate ! Votes ! % |
| {{party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-name="Brewster, Daniel B." | Daniel Brewster | 267,106 | 53.14 |
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-name="Wallace, George" | George Wallace (write-in)
| 214,849 | 42.75 |
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-name="Unpledged" | Unpledged
| 12,377 | 2.46 |
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-name="Easter, Andrew J." | Andrew J. Easter
| 8,275 | 1.65 |
| Total
! 502,607 ! 100.0 |
|---|
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Campaign
George Wallace ran in the Democratic primary, but was defeated by U.S. Senator Daniel Brewster, who served as a surrogate for Johnson. Wallace won a majority of the white vote.{{sfn|Black|Black|1992|p=160-161}}
As of the 2016 presidential election, this is the last election in which Harford County, Carroll County, Washington County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Queen Anne's County and Caroline County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
Anne Arundel County would not vote Democratic again until 2016, while Frederick and Talbot counties would not do so until 2020, with Donald Trump being the first Republican to lose all three of these counties, as well as the statewide white vote, since this election.Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 However, Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore flipped against the trend from Kennedy to Goldwater, reflecting the racial tension in the area at this time and the declaration of martial law in the county by Governor J. Millard Tawes in response; similarly, it would be the only county in the state where George Wallace (who had given a speech there during the 1964 primary campaign) finished in second place four years later, ahead of Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey.{{Cite book |url=https://www2.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr12d4525.pdf |title=School Desegregation in Dorchester County, Maryland |date=September 1977 |publisher=United States Commission on Civil Rights}}
Results
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| colspan="7" | 1964 United States presidential election in Maryland{{cite book |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000172/html/am172--477.html |page=477 |title=Maryland Manual 1965–1966 |publisher=The Hall of Records Commission of the State of Maryland |access-date=May 12, 2019}} |
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| colspan="2" style="width: 15em" |Party
! style="width: 17em" |Candidate ! style="width: 17em" |Running mate ! style="width: 5em" |Votes ! style="width: 7em" |Percentage ! style="width: 5em" |Electoral votes |
| style="background-color:#3333FF; width: 3px" |
| style="width: 130px" | Democratic | align="right" | 730,912 | align="right" | 65.47% | align="right" | 10 |
| style="background-color:#FF3333; width: 3px" |
| style="width: 130px" | Republican | align="right" | 385,495 | align="right" | 34.53% | align="right" | 0 |
=Results by county=
| width="60%" class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| County
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Lyndon B. Johnson ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Barry Goldwater ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Margin ! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 211 {{ISBN|0405077114}} |
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| style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| % ! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| # ! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| % ! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| # ! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| % |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Allegany | {{party shading/Democratic}}|20,425 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|62.25% | {{party shading/Republican}}|12,384 | {{party shading/Republican}}|37.75% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,041 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|24.50% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|32,809 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Anne Arundel | {{party shading/Democratic}}|37,981 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|58.70% | {{party shading/Republican}}|26,725 | {{party shading/Republican}}|41.30% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|11,256 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|17.40% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|64,706 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Baltimore | {{party shading/Democratic}}|117,153 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|60.07% | {{party shading/Republican}}|77,870 | {{party shading/Republican}}|39.93% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|39,283 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|20.14% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|195,073 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Baltimore City | {{party shading/Democratic}}|240,716 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|75.98% | {{party shading/Republican}}|76,089 | {{party shading/Republican}}|24.02% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|164,627 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.96% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|316,805 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Calvert | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,335 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|65.39% | {{party shading/Republican}}|1,765 | {{party shading/Republican}}|34.61% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|1,570 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|30.78% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|5,100 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Caroline | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,710 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|57.91% | {{party shading/Republican}}|2,696 | {{party shading/Republican}}|42.09% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|1,014 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|15.82% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|6,406 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Carroll | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,451 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|50.35% | {{party shading/Republican}}|8,332 | {{party shading/Republican}}|49.65% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|119 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|0.70% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|16,783 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Cecil | {{party shading/Democratic}}|7,854 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|59.57% | {{party shading/Republican}}|5,330 | {{party shading/Republican}}|40.43% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|2,524 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|19.14% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|13,184 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Charles | {{party shading/Democratic}}|6,546 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|65.45% | {{party shading/Republican}}|3,455 | {{party shading/Republican}}|34.55% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,091 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|30.90% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|10,001 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Republican}}|Dorchester | {{party shading/Democratic}}|4,564 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|46.14% | {{party shading/Republican}}|5,327 | {{party shading/Republican}}|53.86% | {{party shading/Republican}} |
| 763
| {{party shading/Republican}} |
| 7.72%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|9,891 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Frederick | {{party shading/Democratic}}|14,548 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|61.10% | {{party shading/Republican}}|9,264 | {{party shading/Republican}}|38.90% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|5,284 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|22.20% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|23,812 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Republican}}|Garrett | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,515 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|49.24% | {{party shading/Republican}}|3,624 | {{party shading/Republican}}|50.76% | {{party shading/Republican}} |
| 109
| {{party shading/Republican}} |
| 1.52%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|7,139 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Harford | {{party shading/Democratic}}|13,550 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|57.62% | {{party shading/Republican}}|9,968 | {{party shading/Republican}}|42.38% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,582 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|15.24% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|23,518 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Howard | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,185 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|54.50% | {{party shading/Republican}}|6,833 | {{party shading/Republican}}|45.50% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|1,352 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|9.00% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|15,018 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Kent | {{party shading/Democratic}}|4,113 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|67.19% | {{party shading/Republican}}|2,008 | {{party shading/Republican}}|32.81% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|2,105 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|34.38% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|6,121 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Montgomery | {{party shading/Democratic}}|103,113 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|66.24% | {{party shading/Republican}}|52,554 | {{party shading/Republican}}|33.76% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|50,559 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|32.48% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|155,667 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Prince George's | {{party shading/Democratic}}|81,806 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|63.80% | {{party shading/Republican}}|46,413 | {{party shading/Republican}}|36.20% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|35,393 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|27.60% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|128,219 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Queen Anne's | {{party shading/Democratic}}|4,052 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|67.45% | {{party shading/Republican}}|1,955 | {{party shading/Republican}}|32.55% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|2,097 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|34.90% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|6,007 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Somerset | {{party shading/Democratic}}|4,527 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|58.93% | {{party shading/Republican}}|3,155 | {{party shading/Republican}}|41.07% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|1,372 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|17.86% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|7,682 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|St. Mary's | {{party shading/Democratic}}|5,831 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|66.95% | {{party shading/Republican}}|2,878 | {{party shading/Republican}}|33.05% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|2,953 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|33.90% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,709 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Talbot | {{party shading/Democratic}}|4,671 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|55.85% | {{party shading/Republican}}|3,693 | {{party shading/Republican}}|44.15% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|978 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|11.70% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,364 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Washington | {{party shading/Democratic}}|19,858 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|60.89% | {{party shading/Republican}}|12,756 | {{party shading/Republican}}|39.11% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|7,102 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|21.78% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|32,614 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Wicomico | {{party shading/Democratic}}|8,695 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|53.86% | {{party shading/Republican}}|7,448 | {{party shading/Republican}}|46.14% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|1,247 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|7.72% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|16,143 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|Worcester | {{party shading/Democratic}}|3,713 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|55.53% | {{party shading/Republican}}|2,973 | {{party shading/Republican}}|44.47% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|740 | {{party shading/Democratic}}|11.06% | {{party shading/Democratic}}|6,686 |
| style="text-align:center;"
!Totals!!730,912!!65.47%!!385,495!!34.53%!!345,417!!30.94%!!1,116,457 |
==Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican==
==Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic==
- Alleghany
- Anne Arundel
- Baltimore
- Caroline
- Carroll
- Cecil
- Frederick
- Harford
- Howard
- Kent
- Somerset
- Talbot
- Washington
- Wicomico
- Worcester
{{Cite web|title=1960 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1960&fips=24&f=0&off=0&elect=0|access-date=2024-01-10|website= Dave Leip's election atlas}}{{Cite web|title=1964 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1964&fips=24&f=0&off=0&elect=0|access-date=2024-01-10|website= Dave Leip's election atlas}}
References
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Works cited
- {{cite book|last1=Black |first1=Earl |author-link1=Earl Black (political scientist) |last2=Black |first2=Merle |author-link2=Merle Black |title=The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1992 |url=https://archive.org/details/vitalsouthhowpre0000blac |isbn=0674941306}}
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