Despite Johnson's landslide, Alaska came out of the 1964 election as 4.63 percent more Democratic than the nation at large on a two-party basis, and Johnson's 31-point margin is the second-largest by a presidential candidate of either party, only surpassed by
Ronald Reagan in his
1984 landslide. This is also the only time any presidential candidate has won every single borough in the state. Had Goldwater won the state, Alaska would have never voted Democratic, and it would constitute the Republicans' longest voting streak up to the present day. As of the
2024 presidential election, this is the only time that
Matanuska-Susitna,
Wrangell,
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, and
Ketchikan Gateway voted for a Democratic candidate. The
Aleutians East,
Bristol Bay,
Fairbanks North Star,
Kodiak Island, and
Denali have also not voted Democratic since.
Anchorage would not vote for the Democratic candidate again until
2020. Alaska was one of three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being
Vermont (which also had never gone to a Democrat before) and
Georgia (which hadn't gone to a Republican before)--though these two had been states for much longer than Alaska, which had only participated in one previous presidential contest, and broke a streak lasting more than a century. ==See also==