1964 United States presidential election in Illinois


The 1964 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Illinois was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, with 59.47% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater, with 40.53% of the popular vote., this is the last election in which Adams County, Morgan County, Effingham County, Logan County, Wayne County, DeWitt County, Menard County, Wabash County, and Scott County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate. This would be the last time until 1992 that Illinois would go for a Democrat in a presidential election.

Election information

Turnout

Turnout in the preference vote of the primaries was 17.77%, with a total of 917,314 votes cast.
Turnout in the general election was 84.97%, with a total of 4,702,841 votes cast.

Primaries

Both major parties had state-run primaries on April 14..

Democratic

The 1964 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 14, 1964 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1964 presidential election.
In this election, all candidates were write-ins.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.
Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson overwhelmingly won the primary.
While he received 3.23% of the vote, Robert Kennedy was not an active candidate for the nomination.
CandidateVotes%
Lyndon B. Johnson 82,02791.63
George Wallace 3,7614.20
Robert Kennedy 2,8943.23
Other write-ins8410.94
Total89,523100

Republican

The 1964 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 14, 1964 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1964 presidential election.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.
CandidateVotes%
Barry M. Goldwater512,84061.95
Margaret Chase Smith209,52125.31
Henry Cabot Lodge 68,1228.23
Richard M. Nixon 30,3133.66
George Wallace 2,2030.27
Nelson A. Rockefeller 2,0480.25
William Scranton 1,8420.22
George Romney 4650.06
Other write-ins4370.05
Total827,791100

General election

Results

Results by county