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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 carried Texas by a landslide margin of 27.5%; his 63.61% vote share made it his thirteenth-best state, and his second-best amongst states of the Old Confederacy, states that had voted for Carter in 1976, and states with at least 10 electoral votes (in each case, after Florida).
Reagan authorized the formation of his 1984 campaign committee, Reagan-Bush '84, on October 17, 1983. [1] [2] He made the formal announcement of his candidacy for reelection on January 29, 1984. [3] On August 23, he secured the nomination of the Republican Party at its convention in Dallas, Texas. [4] The convention nominated Bush as his ...
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 for reelection as president in 1984, running against Democrat Walter Mondale. Reagan was re-elected, receiving 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%, and winning 49 of 50 states. [43] Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes (97.6 percent of the 538 votes in the Electoral College), the most by any candidate in American history ...
That election ended in a near-landslide for Reagan, who won the popular vote by nearly 10 percentage points. ... As in 1980, no poll is hinting at a blowout win for either Trump or Harris. And ...
Carter did defeat Kennedy for the nomination in 1980, but the nasty contest went all the way to the convention and weakened the incumbent ahead of his landslide loss to Reagan.
Ronald Reagan won in a landslide winning every contest and achieving 6.4 million votes compared to his opponents 12K. Harold Stassen lost to Reagan and won no contests at all. Stassen achieved a low 0.19% of the vote. Ronald Reagan would go on to win the most Electoral votes achieved by any president in history in the General election of that year.