Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic (DFL) Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic (DFL) The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election.

Minnesota was won by the DFL candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had assumed the presidency less than a year earlier following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, won the state over U.S.

Johnson went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 22.58% of the popular vote.

In the 1964 election, President Johnson carried Minnesota by a margin of victory that hadn't been seen in a presidential election in the state since Franklin D. Roosevelt carried the state by a margin of 30.83% over Alf Landon in 1936.

This margin of victory was aided by the fact that Hubert Humphrey, the state's incumbent U.S.