The 1964 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the
1964 United States presidential election
The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial United States presidential election, presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democratic President of the Un ...
. District of Columbia voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
President
Lyndon B. Johnson won
Washington, D.C. by an overwhelming margin, receiving over 85% of the vote. This was the first presidential election in which the District of Columbia had the right to vote. The District of Columbia has voted Democratic by large margins every time since this election.
This was one of only two elections where
Washington, D.C. wasn't the largest margin for either candidate along with
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
, this time being second to a 74.28% margin for
Goldwater in
Mississippi.
Results
See also
*
United States presidential elections in the District of Columbia
References
District of Columbia
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
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