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In the 1964 United States presidential election the state of California voted for the incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide over the Republican nominee Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.As Johnson won nationally in a massive landslide taking 61.05% of the vote nationwide and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins California actually weighed in as about 4% more Republican than the national average in the 1964 election.