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Ronald Reagan and running mate George H. W. Bush defeated the Carter-Mondale ticket by almost 10 percentage points in the popular vote. The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing six states and Washington, D.C.).
Reagan coalition, the combination of voters who supported Reagan and his election campaigns. Reagan Democrat, a traditionally Democratic voter who defected from their party to support Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Reagan's coattails, the influence of Reagan's popularity on elections other than his own, after the American political expression to ...
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
Reagan won re-election in a landslide victory, carrying 525 electoral votes, 49 states, and 58.8% of the popular vote. Mondale won 13 electoral votes: 10 from his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a narrow margin of 0.18% (3,761 votes), and 3 from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ...
In the heavily populated, and very liberal, five boroughs of New York City, Carter still won overall, and Reagan made only modest gains in vote share over Gerald Ford's 1976 showing of 33%, with Reagan taking 37.5% in NYC in 1980. While Carter still won in 4 of the 5 boroughs, Carter bled considerable support in New York City to Anderson, with ...
Ronald and Nancy Reagan celebrating his gubernatorial election victory, November 1966. In January 1966, Reagan announced his candidacy for the California governorship, [95] repeating his stances on individual freedom and big government. [96] When he met with black Republicans in March, [97] he was criticized for opposing the Civil Rights Act of ...
At 69 years old, Ronald Reagan was the oldest non-incumbent presidential candidate to win a presidential election. Thirty-six years later, in 2016 , this record was surpassed by Donald Trump at 70 years old.
In the 1984 United States presidential election, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush were reelected president and vice president over Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro of the Democratic Party. Reagan authorized the formation of his 1984 campaign committee, Reagan-Bush '84, on October 17, 1983.