Nation: THE 1964 ELECTION: OFFICIAL RETURNS

This week the U.S. Electoral College convened in Washington, made the Nov. 3 presidential election outcome official by casting 486 electoral votes for Lyndon Johnson, 52 votes for Barry Goldwater. Official returns, as reported last week by the Associated Press, showed that Johnson won by a record 43,126,218 votes. He got 61% of the total, also a record. An alltime high of 70,621,479 Americans voted as follows:

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