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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 ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
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.
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 ...
Republicans haven't won the popular vote in a presidential contest since 2004 -- when President George W. Bush got 62 million votes. Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide election in ...
[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.
In 1980, Carter made a Monday night stop at Detroit Metropolitan Airport for an election-eve speech to Michigan supporters, only to see Republican challenger Ronald Reagan win in a landslide, with ...
Reagan carried every state except for Washington, D.C., and Mondale's home state of Minnesota; won 58.8 percent of the popular vote; and defeated Mondale by a popular vote margin of eighteen points. Reagan remains the only presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972 to win at least 55 percent of the popular vote and win by a margin ...