1964 Arizona gubernatorial election

1964 Arizona gubernatorial election

← 1962 November 3, 1964 1966 →
 
Nominee Samuel Goddard Richard Kleindienst
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 252,098 221,404
Percentage 53.2% 46.8%

County results
Goddard:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Kleindienst:      50–60%

Governor before election

Paul J. Fannin
Republican

Elected Governor

Samuel P. Goddard
Democratic

The 1964 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1964. Incumbent Governor Paul Fannin decided not to run for reelection to a fourth term as governor, instead deciding to successfully run for the United States Senate when incumbent U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater decided to run for President of the United States.

Despite Goldwater being at the top of the ticket as the Republican nominee for President against Lyndon Johnson, Samuel Pearson Goddard, who lost to Fannin in 1962, won the Democratic nomination and subsequently the general election, defeating Arizona Republican Party Chairman Richard Kleindienst (who would later serve as US Attorney General in the administration of Richard Nixon). Goddard was sworn into his first and only term as governor on January 4, 1965.


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