Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic The 1964 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election.

West Virginia was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 67.94 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 32.06 percent of the popular vote.

[3][4] In a state where Goldwater was widely perceived as an extremist and excessively allied with the Deep South,[5] and where Johnson's campaign's presentation of his Republican opponent as a warmonger who would provoke nuclear war[6] had particular resonance in an isolationist Appalachian population,[5] the incumbent President's 67.94 percent vote share and 538,087-vote total are the highest percentage and vote count ever received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history.

West Virginia would be easily Johnson's strongest antebellum slave state and his sixth-best overall behind Rhode Island, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine and New York, voting overall 13.29 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large even in a huge landslide.

As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the only election since the Civil War in which a Democratic presidential candidate won Preston County and Upshur County.