Английская Википедия:1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Main Шаблон:Infobox election Шаблон:ElectionsMS The 1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held on that day throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Background

Less than 10% of Mississippi's black population were registered voters. Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. told Mississippians not to obey the Civil Rights Act.

Over ninety percent of Mississippi's electorate viewed President Johnson as having done a bad job and 96.4 percent opposed the Civil Rights Act, compared to only 54 percent in the antebellum slave states and Oklahoma. 87 percent of Mississippi voters, vis-à-vis 48 percent in the South as a whole, believed that President Johnson was failing at countering domestic Communism. This reflected the widespread belief among Mississippi whites that civil rights activists were funded by communist parties.

Campaign

Neither Governor Johnson nor any other major state or federal politician offered President Johnson any support in his statewide campaign, which was left to inexperienced Greenville lawyer Douglas Wynn. Governor Johnson and four of the state's five Congressmen were silent about supporting Goldwater, though Congressman John Bell Williams supported him openly.

In July, polling suggested Goldwater would receive ninety percent of Mississippi's vote, but this fell to seventy in August and to between sixty and sixty-five in October due to fears that he would abolish the Rural Electrification Administration. By the weekend before election day, University of California political scientist Peter H. Odegard believed that Goldwater would win only AlabamaШаблон:Efn and Mississippi.

Ultimately, Goldwater won Mississippi with a 74.28 point margin of victory over Johnson, making the Magnolia State 97% more Republican than the nation and Goldwater the first Republican to win the state since Reconstruction. While Goldwater would suffer a landslide defeat to Johnson in both the national popular vote and Electoral College, his performance in Mississippi was the largest statewide percentage victory by any Republican presidential nominee. Goldwater defeated Johnson by a margin comparable to what had been predicted in the earliest polls, and much greater than predicted immediately before the election. Over-representation of urban areas in polling was blamed for this discrepancy. Goldwater received 90% of the white vote in the state.Шаблон:Sfn

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time that Claiborne, Holmes and Jefferson counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate.

Goldwater was the first Republican to ever carry Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Choctaw, Covington, Franklin, Greene, Harrison, Humphreys, Itawamba, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Leake, Lee, Neshoba, Newton, Perry, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Scott, Smith, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Walthall, Webster and Winston Counties. He was the first Republican to carry Amite, Carroll, Chickasaw, Clay, Clarke, Copiah, DeSoto, Holmes, Kemper, Lafayette, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion, Marshall, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Rankin, Sunflower, and Yazoo Counties since Ulysses S. Grant in 1872; to carry Lincoln County since James A. Garfield in 1880; to carry Attala, Grenada, and Panola Counties since James G. Blaine in 1884; and to win Coahoma, Issaquena, and Quitman Counties since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.

Results

1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Mississippi Republican	Barry Goldwater	356,528	87.14%	7
	National Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	52,618	12.86%	0
Totals			409,146	100.00%	7
Voter turnout (Voting age)					33.9%

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