Alaska was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson ( D-Texas ) with 65.9 % of the popular vote against U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater ( R-Arizona ) with 34.1 % . Johnson won the national vote as well , defeating Goldwater and serving a full term after finishing the assassinated John F. Kennedy ’s term . This is the first and only presidential election when Alaska has ever voted for a Democratic candidate , partially due to Johnson ’s landslide victory throughout the rest of the country ( except for the Deep South and Goldwater ’s home state ) , and partially because during its first four presidential elections Alaska was not anomalously Republican relative to the nation at-large , which the state would become and remain very strongly from 1976 onwards . Indeed , 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
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1964 United States presidential election in Alaska