# 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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The 1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1964. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
New Jersey was won overwhelmingly by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his running mate Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Johnson and Humphrey defeated the Republican nominees, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and his running mate Congressman William E. Miller of New York. This is the only time the Democratic nominee won each of New Jersey’s 21 counties, and the second of two times that a Republican failed to win any county after 1912. This is the last time each county in New Jersey voted for the same presidential candidate until Republican President Richard Nixon’s landslide 1972 re-election.
Johnson carried New Jersey in a landslide with 65.61% of the vote to Goldwater’s 33.86%, a margin of 31.75%. Johnson also swept all twenty-one of New Jersey’s counties, the only time a Democratic presidential nominee has ever done so. Johnson was the first Democrat to ever carry Ocean County since it was created in 1850. He was also the first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry Monmouth and Morris Counties and the first since Wilson in 1916 to carry Sussex County, whilst the counties of Bergen, Cape May, Hunterdon and Somerset went Democratic for the first time since FDR‘s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon.
Johnson broke 60% of the vote in 15 counties, and 70% in 4: Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Cumberland, besides falling just short of the mark in Essex County, where Johnson received 69.9%. Hudson would be the most Democratic county, giving Johnson 73.5% of the vote. Goldwater’s strongest county was rural Sussex County, where he received 45.2% of the vote to Johnson’s 54.8%.
New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean. But this normal pattern was broken in 1964, as Goldwater’s staunch conservatism led many moderate Northeastern Republicans to view Goldwater as an extremist and defect to the Democrats that year. As Johnson won a massive landslide nationally, normally GOP-leaning New Jersey’s result would even be almost 10% more Democratic than the national average. This was also the last time New Jersey would go to a Democratic candidate for president until 1992, after which the state has always gone Democratic.

## Primary elections
### Republican primary

The Republican primary took place on April 21, 1964. Former Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would win the primary as a write-in candidate, over Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon
1964 New Jersey Republican presidential primary :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Henry Cabot Lodge (write-in) | 7,896 | 41.70 |
| Barry Goldwater (write-in) | 5,309 | 28.04 |
| Richard Nixon (write-in) | 4,179 | 22.07 |
| William Scranton (write-in) | 633 | 3.34 |
| Nelson Rockefeller (write-in) | 612 | 3.23 |
| George Wallace (write-in) | 220 | 1.16 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson (write-in) | 84 | 0.44 |
| Total | 18,933 | 100.0 |

### Democratic primary

The Democratic primary took place on April 21, 1964. Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson won the primary on a write-in campaign, as no candidate's names were on the ballot.
1964 New Jersey Democratic presidential primary :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent, write-in) | 4,863 | 82.30 |
| George Wallace (write-in) | 491 | 8.31 |
| Robert Kennedy (write-in) | 431 | 7.29 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge (write-in) | 69 | 1.17 |
| Barry Goldwater (write-in) | 30 | 0.51 |
| Richard Nixon (write-in) | 19 | 0.32 |
| Nelson Rockefeller (write-in) | 3 | 0.05 |
| William Scranton (write-in) | 3 | 0.05 |
| Total | 5,909 | 100.0 |

## Results

1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes |
| | Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) | 1,867,671 | 65.61% | 17 |
| | Republican | Barry Goldwater | 963,843 | 33.86% | 0 |
| | Socialist Workers | Clifton DeBerry | 8,181 | 0.29% | 0 |
| | Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 7,075 | 0.25% | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | 2,846,770 | 100.0% | 17 |
| Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) | Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) | Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) | Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) | Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) | 69%/88% |

### Results by county

| County | Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic | Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic | Barry Morris Goldwater Republican | Barry Morris Goldwater Republican | Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers | Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers | Eric Hass Socialist Labor | Eric Hass Socialist Labor | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Atlantic | 50,945 | 65.30% | 25,626 | 32.85% | 1,217 | 1.56% | 231 | 0.30% | 25,319 | 32.45% | 78,019 |
| Bergen | 234,849 | 59.69% | 157,899 | 40.13% | 475 | 0.12% | 242 | 0.06% | 76,950 | 19.56% | 393,465 |
| Burlington | 57,638 | 64.80% | 31,215 | 35.09% | 60 | 0.07% | 32 | 0.04% | 26,423 | 29.71% | 88,945 |
| Camden | 124,620 | 67.09% | 60,844 | 32.75% | 47 | 0.03% | 250 | 0.13% | 63,776 | 34.33% | 185,761 |
| Cape May | 14,943 | 56.65% | 11,390 | 43.18% | 13 | 0.05% | 34 | 0.13% | 3,553 | 13.47% | 26,380 |
| Cumberland | 33,593 | 72.69% | 12,611 | 27.29% | 6 | 0.01% | 5 | 0.01% | 20,982 | 45.40% | 46,215 |
| Essex | 277,042 | 69.88% | 116,172 | 29.30% | 385 | 0.10% | 2,878 | 0.73% | 160,870 | 40.57% | 396,477 |
| Gloucester | 40,305 | 62.93% | 23,702 | 37.00% | 10 | 0.02% | 35 | 0.05% | 16,603 | 25.92% | 64,052 |
| Hudson | 200,051 | 73.55% | 69,515 | 25.56% | 211 | 0.08% | 2,232 | 0.82% | 130,536 | 47.99% | 272,009 |
| Hunterdon | 15,091 | 59.69% | 10,173 | 40.24% | 14 | 0.06% | 5 | 0.02% | 4,918 | 19.45% | 25,283 |
| Mercer | 86,985 | 71.17% | 35,081 | 28.70% | 49 | 0.04% | 99 | 0.08% | 51,904 | 42.47% | 122,214 |
| Middlesex | 151,196 | 70.12% | 63,370 | 29.39% | 840 | 0.39% | 212 | 0.10% | 87,826 | 40.73% | 215,618 |
| Monmouth | 95,320 | 60.69% | 61,367 | 39.07% | 261 | 0.18% | 107 | 0.07% | 33,953 | 21.62% | 157,055 |
| Morris | 73,684 | 57.16% | 55,024 | 42.68% | 125 | 0.10% | 80 | 0.06% | 18,660 | 14.47% | 128,913 |
| Ocean | 36,892 | 57.90% | 25,985 | 40.78% | 764 | 1.20% | 73 | 0.11% | 10,907 | 17.12% | 63,714 |
| Passaic | 113,919 | 63.39% | 63,114 | 35.12% | 2,362 | 1.31% | 304 | 0.17% | 50,805 | 28.27% | 179,699 |
| Salem | 17,846 | 67.23% | 8,682 | 32.71% | 9 | 0.03% | 8 | 0.03% | 9,164 | 34.52% | 26,545 |
| Somerset | 43,659 | 60.41% | 28,416 | 39.32% | 150 | 0.21% | 45 | 0.06% | 15,243 | 21.09% | 72,270 |
| Sussex | 14,349 | 54.77% | 11,836 | 45.18% | 3 | 0.01% | 9 | 0.03% | 2,513 | 9.59% | 26,197 |
| Union | 164,989 | 66.17% | 82,999 | 33.29% | 1,178 | 0.47% | 181 | 0.07% | 81,990 | 32.88% | 249,347 |
| Warren | 19,755 | 69.09% | 8,822 | 30.85% | 2 | 0.01% | 13 | 0.05% | 10,933 | 38.24% | 28,592 |
| Totals | 1,867,671 | 65.61% | 963,843 | 33.86% | 8,181 | 0.29% | 7,075 | 0.25% | 903,828 | 31.75% | 2,846,770 |

#### Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Atlantic
* Bergen
* Burlington
* Cape May
* Gloucester
* Hunterdon
* Monmouth
* Morris
* Ocean
* Salem
* Somerset
* Sussex
* Union
* Warren

## Analysis

As of the 2024 election, this is the last election in which Sussex County, Hunterdon County, and Warren County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Union County would not vote Democratic again until 1992. Bergen, Passaic, Ocean, Monmouth, and Cape May Counties would not vote Democratic again until 1996. Somerset County did not vote Democratic again until 2008, and Morris County would not vote Democratic again until 2020. As of 2020, this remains the strongest ever performance by a Democratic presidential nominee in New Jersey, the second strongest ever performance by a nominee of either party after Warren G. Harding in 1920. This also remains the last time New Jersey voted to the left of Maryland.