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The 1964 United States presidential election in Florida was held November 3, 1964. All contemporary fifty states and the District of Columbia took part, and Florida voters selected fourteen electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Florida was the second-closest state won by Johnson, after Idaho. [1]
The 1964 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic governor C. Farris Bryant was ineligible for a second consecutive full term under the 1885 State Constitution. Democratic nominee W. Haydon Burns defeated Republican nominee Charles R. Holley with 56.12% of the vote.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 1964, concurrently with the presidential election.Elections were held in 25 states and 1 territory. These were the last gubernatorial elections for Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nebraska to take place in a presidential election year.
Since the 1952 presidential election, the Democrats have only won Florida five times: in 1964, 1976, 1996, 2008, and 2012. In 2000, George W. Bush led Al Gore by less than 2,000 votes on election day, but as the recount proceeded, the gap between the two sides continued to narrow. [14] In Bush v.
The 1964 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Spessard Holland was re-elected to a fourth term in office, defeating J. Brailey Oldham in the primary and Republican Claude R. Kirk Jr. in the general election.
The 1964 election was a major transition point for the South, and an important step in the process by which the Democrats' former "Solid South" became a Republican bastion. Nonetheless, Johnson still managed to eke out a bare popular majority of 51–49% (6.307 to 5.993 million) in the eleven former Confederate states.
Dates to remember ahead of the 2024 Florida General Election Sept. 21: This is the deadline for stateside and overseas military, and out-of-country civilians, to request a vote-by-mail ballot.
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