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The election was held on November 4, 1980. [140] 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.).
Ronald Reagan (R) 489: Jimmy Carter (D) 49: 1980 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Reagan, blue denotes states won by Carter. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Republican gain: Seats contested: 34 of 100 seats: Net seat change: Republican +12: 1980 Senate results
Ronald Reagan giving a speech at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 1, 1980. Reagan carried New Jersey with 51.97% of the vote to Carter's 38.56%, a margin of 13.42%. [2] Anderson came in a strong but distant third, with 7.88% of the vote.
Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor Ronald Reagan, over the Democratic nominee, President Jimmy Carter. Reagan won Pennsylvania by a margin of 7.11%. This result nonetheless made Pennsylvania about 2.6% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election.Retired Hollywood actor and two-term California governor Ronald Reagan was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the Republican National Convention held from July 14 to 17, 1980, in Detroit, Michigan.
New York's election results reflect the Republican Party's re-consolidation of base under what is popularly called the "Reagan Revolution," [2] which sounded various overwhelming conservative electoral victories across the United States throughout the 1980s – and most evidently against the relatively unpopular President Carter during the 1980 ...
The final CBS-New York Times poll before the 1980 election estimated Reagan’s lead at 1 percentage point. The final Washington Post poll indicated Carter was ahead by 4 points.
All 50 states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Connecticut was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan by 10 points. [2]