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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 ...
Reagan ran with incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, while Mondale's running mate was Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro of New York. On election day, Reagan won 51.22% of the vote in the state to Mondale's 48.43%, a margin of 2.79%. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960.
Ronald Reagan (Republican) Next Congress: 99th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Republican +18.2%: Electoral vote: Ronald Reagan (R) 525: Walter Mondale (D) 13: 1984 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Reagan, blue denotes states won by Mondale. Numbers indicate the electoral ...
[6] [7] Reagan's reelection was confirmed by the Electoral College on December 17 [8] and certified by the joint session of the U.S. Congress on January 7, 1985. [9] At 73 years old, Reagan was then the oldest incumbent president to win a presidential election. He was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 1985.
Even those strong victories are dwarfed by Ronald Reagan’s 1984 win, a true landslide. Reagan lost only Washington, DC, and Minnesota, the home state of his Democratic rival, Walter Mondale ...
Reagan ran against Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John B. Anderson. [1] [34] He was praised by supporters for running a campaign of upbeat optimism. [35] Aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, Reagan won the election in a massive landslide.
That election ended in a near-landslide for Reagan, who won the popular vote by nearly 10 percentage points. ... That possibility is far from implausible, as the Reagan-Carter election suggests ...
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.