1964 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1964 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election, which was held on that day throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Georgia joined Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana in supporting the Arizona senator as a protest against the Civil Rights Act. Campaign
The majority of opinion polls between July and early October suggested that, despite this widespread opposition to Johnson's programs, Goldwater would not take the Peach State. In fact, in early August, Georgia was viewed as alongside Arkansas and North Carolina as the most secure southern state for Johnson. Nevertheless, those Democratic Party delegates who refused to support Goldwater because of his policies on rural electrification and subsidies to tobacco farmers were concerned that Goldwater could carry Georgia – and the entire South – as early as late August. Moreover, in Valdosta in the far south, the region where resistance to black civil rights was most extreme, white union workers in September had been polled as supporting Goldwater 315 to 19, with 1 vote for George Wallace who would carry the state in 1968. By the end of September, it was clear that the state was bitterly divided, with the previously rock-solid Democratic south rooting for Goldwater but defections from Republican support during the previous election in the northern counties appearing to be almost as widespread, because there was some hope Johnson could reverse large population declines and win support through his program of War on Poverty. By the end of October, amidst much campaigning in the state by both Johnson and Goldwater, it was generally thought Georgia was leaning towards the Republicans. Compared to the previous election, Georgia swung to the Republicans by over 34%. Among the rural areas of the "black belt" and the south of the state, there were enormous swings to Goldwater. Only 55% of those Georgian voters who supported Nixon in 1960 remained with Goldwater. Goldwater received 65% of the white vote. During the concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third District House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction. Results

Results by county

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1964 Georgia (U.S. state) elections
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