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From March 10 to June 2, 1964, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1964 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1964 Democratic National Convention held from August 24 to August 27, 1964, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832. The list is divided into two sections, reflecting the increasing importance of primaries and caucuses ...
The 1972 primaries set the record for the highest number of candidates in a major party's presidential primaries in American history, with 16. After the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, Ted Kennedy fell from front runner to non-candidate.
At various points prior to the American Civil War, the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party were major parties. [1] These six parties have nominated candidates in the vast majority of presidential elections, though some presidential elections have deviated from the normal pattern ...
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote [75] Electoral vote [76] Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote [76] Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent) Democratic: Texas: 43,129,040 61.05% 486 Hubert Humphrey: Minnesota: 486 Barry Goldwater: Republican: Arizona: 27,175,754 38.47% 52 William E. Miller ...
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate Fanny Hamer speaks out for the meeting of her delegates at a credential meeting prior to the formal meeting of the Democratic National Convention in 1964.
Johnson won New Hampshire with almost 29,000 votes, and Kennedy issued a statement that evening saying that the choice of a vice-presidential candidate should be made by Democratic convention in August, guided by the wishes of President Johnson. [18] Shortly after the primary, Johnson began tossing out names of possible running mates.
At the national convention the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, on the grounds that the official Mississippi delegation had been elected in violation of the party's rules because blacks had been systematically excluded from voting in the primaries, and participating in the precinct and county caucuses and the state ...