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Election 1964 Results

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1964 presidential election in Maine

Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) beat Barry Goldwater (Republican) in Maine in 1964, 68.8% to 31.2%, a margin of 37.7 points and 143,563 votes.

Maine voted 15.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+22.6.

Maine changed party: in 1960 it went Republican, for Richard Nixon.

Democrats led in 16 of the 16 counties as they stood then. The largest, Cumberland, cast 73,209 votes and went to the Democrat by 38.9 points. The closest was Hancock, where 1,111 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Lyndon B. Johnson won Democratic 262,264 68.8%
Barry Goldwater Republican 118,701 31.2%
Total380,965

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 50,844 69.5% 22,365 30.5% 73,209 D+38.9
York 34,083 71.9% 13,339 28.1% 47,422 D+43.7
Penobscot 28,766 66.6% 14,449 33.4% 43,215 D+33.1
Androscoggin 30,080 80.2% 7,441 19.8% 37,521 D+60.3
Kennebec 24,813 68.7% 11,307 31.3% 36,120 D+37.4
Aroostook 17,552 63.7% 9,994 36.3% 27,546 D+27.4
Oxford 13,616 71.8% 5,340 28.2% 18,956 D+43.7
Somerset 10,694 70.2% 4,541 29.8% 15,235 D+40.4
Hancock 7,415 54.0% 6,304 46.0% 13,719 D+8.1
Washington 9,312 70.9% 3,816 29.1% 13,128 D+41.9
Knox 7,022 61.5% 4,404 38.5% 11,426 D+22.9
Sagadahoc 7,006 71.9% 2,733 28.1% 9,739 D+43.9
Lincoln 5,099 56.1% 3,984 43.9% 9,083 D+12.3
Waldo 5,397 61.9% 3,324 38.1% 8,721 D+23.8
Franklin 5,784 66.7% 2,887 33.3% 8,671 D+33.4
Piscataquis 4,781 65.9% 2,473 34.1% 7,254 D+31.8

Counties as they stood in 1964; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Maine in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+9.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+3.0
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+15.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.0
2000 Al Gore (D) D+5.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+20.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+11.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+22.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+3.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+0.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+23.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.7
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+14.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+41.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.5
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.0
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.3
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+14.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+12.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+37.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+50.2
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.1
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+19.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+29.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+27.1
1896 William McKinley (R) R+38.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+12.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+18.1
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+15.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+14.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+35.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.8