1964 United States presidential election (Camelot)

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 John F. Kennedy defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, in a landslide. Kennedy won 53.6% of the popular vote, the highest percentage won by a Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.

Kennedy easily defeated a primary challenge by Governor George Wallace of Alabama, to win the nomination to a second term. Despite rumors that Kennedy would replace Johnson, at the 1964 Democratic National Convention Johnson was renominated as Kennedy's running mate. In the Republican contest Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a leader of his party's conservative faction, defeated liberal Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania.