Electoral history of

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...

, who served as the 36th

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(1963–1969), the 37th

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(1961–1963); and as a

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(1949–1961) and

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(1937–1949) from

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. Texas's 10th congressional district special election, 1937 *Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 8,280 (27.65%) * Merton Harris (D) - 5,111 (17.07%) * Polk Shelton (D) - 4,420 (14.76%) * Sam V. Stone (D) - 4,048 (13.52%) * C. N. Avery (D) - 3,951 (13.19%) * Houghton Brownlee (D) - 3,019 (10.08%) * Ayers Ross (D) - 1,088 (3.63%) Texas's 10th congressional district election, 1938 :unopposed Texas's 10th congressional district election, 1940 :unopposed

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special election, 1941: * W. Lee O'Daniel (D) - 175,590 (30.49%) * Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 174,279 (30.26%) * Gerald C. Mann (D) - 140,807 (24.45%) * Martin Dies, Jr. (D) - 80,653 (14.01%) * Samuel N. Morris (D) - 1,654 (0.29%) * Joe Thompson (D) - 429 (0.07%) *

Politte Elvins Politte Elvins (March 16, 1878 – January 14, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri's 13th congressional district. Born in French Village. St. Francois County, Missouri, Elvins attended the public schools. He graduated from Carleton ...

(R) - 273 (0.05%) * W. R. Jones (I) - 257 (0.05%) * Joseph C. Bean (D) - 242 (0.04%) * W. W. King (D) - 238 (0.04%) * Arlon Davis (D) - 174 (0.03%) * Guy B. Fisher (D) - 141 (0.02%) * John C. Williams (D) - 128 (0.02%) * W. E. Gilliland (D) - 96 (0.02%) * Starl G. Newsome, Jr. (D) - 96 (0.02%) * A. E. Calvin (D) - 94 (0.02%) * Basil Muse Hatfield (D) - 83 (0.01%) * Bubba Hicks (D) - 77 (0.01%) * Enoch Fletcher (R) - 71 (0.01%) * W. C. Welch (D) - 69 (0.01%) * Floyd E. Ryan (D) - 61 (0.01%) * Walter A. Schultz (D) - 61 (0.01%) * A. E. Harding (D) - 59 (0.01%) * Robert Grammer Head (D) - 58 (0.01%) * Homer Brooks (Communist) - 52 (0.01%) * O. F. Health, Sr. (D) - 51 (0.01%) * John Romulus Brinkley (D) - 36 (0.01%) * Edwin Waller III (D) - 28 (0.01%) * Charles L. Somerville (D) - 20 (0.00%) Texas's 10th congressional district election, 1942 :unopposed Texas's 10th congressional district election, 1944 *Primary election (July 22, 1944) :* Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 20, 592 (68.30%) :* Buck Taylor (D) - 9,723 (31.69%) *General election (November 7, 1944) :unopposed Texas's 10th congressional district election, 1946 * Primary election (July 27, 1946) :* Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 34,712 (68.52%) :* Hardy Hollers (D) - 14,231 (28.09%) :* Charles E. King (D) - 1,714 (3.38%) * General election (November 5, 1946) :unopposed Texas United States Senate election, 1948 (Democratic primary): *

Coke Stevenson Coke Robert Stevenson (March 20, 1888 – June 28, 1975) was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the first Texan politician to hold its three highest offices (Speaker of the Texas Hou ...

- 477,077 (39.68%) * Lyndon B. Johnson - 405,617 (33.73%) *

George Peddy George Peddy (August 22, 1892 - June 13, 1951) was an American attorney, military officer, and political figure from Texas. A 1920 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, he practiced law in Houston with the prominent firm of Vinson, ...

- 237,195 (19.73%) Texas United States Senate election, 1948 (Democratic primary runoff): * Lyndon B. Johnson - 494,191 (50.00%) *

- 494,104 (50.00%) Texas United States Senate election, 1948: * Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 702,985 (66.22%) * Jack Porter (R) - 349,665 (32.94%) * Samuel N. Morris (Prohibition) - 8,913 (0.84%) Texas United States Senate election, 1954: * Lyndon B. Johnson (D) (inc.) - 538,417 (84.59%) * Carlos G. Watson (R) - 95,033 (14.93%) * Fred T. Spangler (Constitution) - 3,025 (0.48%)

1956 Democratic National Convention The 1956 Democratic National Convention nominated former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for president and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for vice president. It was held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chic ...

( Presidential tally): * Adlai Stevenson - 906 (65.89%) * W. Averell Harriman - 210 (15.27%) * Lyndon B. Johnson - 80 (5.82%) *

Stuart Symington William Stuart Symington III (; June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a United States Senator from ...

- 46 (3.35%) * Happy Chandler - 37 (2.69%) * John S. Battle - 33 (2.40%) * James C. Davis - 33 (2.40%) * George Bell Timmerman - 24 (1.75%) * Frank J. Lausche - 6 (0.44%)

( Vice Presidential tally): First ballot: * Estes Kefauver - 466.5 *

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

- 294.5 * Albert Gore, Sr. - 178 * Robert F. Wagner, Jr. - 162.5 *

Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Mi ...

- 134 *

Luther Hodges Luther Hartwell Hodges (March 9, 1898October 6, 1974) was a businessman and American politician. After a career in textile manufacturing, he entered public service, gaining some state appointments. Elected as lieutenant governor of North Carolin ...

- 40 * P. T. Maner - 33 *

LeRoy Collins Thomas LeRoy Collins (March 10, 1909 – March 12, 1991) was an American politician who served as the 33rd Governor of Florida. Collins began his governorship after winning a special election in 1954, was elected to a four-year term in 1956 ...

- 29 * Clinton Anderson - 16 * Frank G. Clement - 14 *

Pat Brown Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he w ...

- 1 * Lyndon B. Johnson - 1 *

- 1

1960 Democratic National Convention The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles, California, on July 11–15, 1960. It nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for president and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for vice president. In ...

(Presidential tally): *

- 806 (52.89%) * Lyndon B. Johnson - 409 (26.84%) *

- 86 (5.64%) *

Adlai Stevenson II Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was twice the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. He was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd vice president o ...

- 80 (5.25%) * Robert Meyner - 43 (2.82%) *

- 42 (2.76%) *

George Smathers George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate from 1951 until 1969 and in the United States House from 1947 to 1951, as ...

- 30 (1.97%) *

Ross Barnett Ross Robert Barnett (January 22, 1898November 6, 1987) was the Governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a Southern Democrat who supported racial segregation. Early life Background and learning Born in Standing Pine in Leake Count ...

- 23 (1.51%) * Herschel C. Loveless - 2 (0.13%) *

- 1 (0.07%) * Orval E. Faubus - 1 (0.07%) *

Albert Rosellini Albert Dean Rosellini (January 21, 1910 – October 10, 2011) was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965 and was both the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the ...

- 1 (0.07%)

(Vice Presidential tally): * Lyndon B. Johnson - 1,521 (100.00%) 1960 United States presidential election: *

(D) - 34,220,984 (49.7%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried) *

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

/ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) - 34,108,157 (49.5%) and 219 electoral votes (26 states carried) *

Harry F. Byrd Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. ...

/ Strom Thurmond (I) - 286,359 (0.4%) and 14 electoral votes (2 states carried) *

/ Barry Goldwater (I) - 1 electoral vote ( Oklahoma

faithless elector In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or ...

) * Orval E. Faubus/ James G. Crommelin (

States' Rights In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the ...

) - 44,984 (0.1%) Texas United States Senate election, 1960: * Lyndon B. Johnson (D) (inc.) - 1,306,625 (57.98%) *

John Tower John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician, serving as a Republican United States Senator from Texas from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower ...

(R) - 926,653 (41.12%) * Bard A. Logan (Constitution) - 20,506 (0.91%) 1964 Democratic presidential primaries: *

- 1,693,813 (27.26%) *

(inc.) - 1,106,999 (17.82%) *

Sam Yorty Samuel William Yorty (October 1, 1909 – June 5, 1998) was an American radio host, attorney, and politician from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, ...

- 798,431 (12.85%) * George Wallace - 798,431 (12.85%) * John W. Reynolds - 522,405 (8.41%) * Albert S. Porter - 493,619 (7.94%) * Matthew E. Welsh - 376,023 (6.05%) * Daniel Brewster - 267,106 (4.30%) *

Jennings Randolph Jennings Randolph (March 8, 1902May 8, 1998) was an American politician from West Virginia. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1947 and the United States Senate from 1958 to ...

- 131,432 (2.12%) * Unpledged - 81,614 (1.31%) *

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, ...

- 36,258 (0.58%) * Lar Daly - 15,160 (0.24%) * Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - 8,495 (0.14%) * Albert J. Easter - 8,275 (0.13%) *

- 800 (0.01%) *

- 548 (0.01%)

1964 Democratic National Convention The 1964 Democratic National Convention of the Democratic Party, took place at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey from August 24 to 27, 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a full term. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minn ...

(Presidential tally): * Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 2,316 (100.00%)

1964 United States presidential election The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nomi ...

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(D) - 43,127,041 (61.1%) and 486 electoral votes (44 states and D.C. carried) * Barry Goldwater/ William E. Miller (R) - 27,175,754 (38.5%) and 52 electoral votes (6 states carried) 1968 Democratic presidential primaries:Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968
/ref> * Eugene McCarthy - 2,914,933 (38.73%) *

- 2,305,148 (30.63%) * Stephen M. Young - 549,140 (7.30%) * Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 383,590 (5.10%) *

Thomas C. Lynch Thomas Conner Lynch (May 20, 1904 – May 29, 1986) was an American lawyer who served as District Attorney in San Francisco and as Attorney General of California from 1964 to 1971. Early life Lynch was born in San Francisco in 1904 to Ma ...

- 380,286 (5.05%) * Roger D. Branigin - 238,700 (3.17%) *

- 236,242 (3.14%) *

- 166,463 (2.21%) * Unpledged - 161,143 (2.14%) * Scott Kelly - 128,899 (1.71%) * George Wallace - 34,489 (0.46%) *

(write-in) - 13,610 (0.18%) * Ronald Reagan (write-in) - 5,309 (0.07%) *

Ted Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...

- 4,052 (0.05%) * Paul C. Fisher - 506 (0.01%) * John G. Crommelin - 186 (0.00%)

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