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Reagan won 53% of the vote in reliably Democratic South Boston, one example of the so-called Reagan Democrat. [83] Although he won an even larger Electoral College majority in 1984, the 1980 election nonetheless stands as the last time some now very strongly Democratic counties gave a Republican a majority or plurality.
The 1980 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4. Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. Republicans picked up seats in both chambers of Congress and won control of the Senate , though Democrats retained a majority in the House of Representatives .
In the 1980 United States presidential election, Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H. W. Bush, were elected president and vice president, defeating incumbents Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale of the Democratic Party. Reagan, a Republican and former governor of California, announced his third presidential bid in a nationally televised ...
Map of the 1980 U.S. presidential election, red represents Reagan winning that state, blue represents Carter winning that state/district. On November 4, 1980, Carter lost the election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. Reagan won 489 electoral votes and 50.8% of the popular vote while Carter only received 49 electoral votes and 41.0% of the ...
From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to 14, 1980, in New York City.
Poll source Date(s) administered Ronald Reagan (R) Jimmy Carter (D) John Anderson (I) Other Undecided Margin Gallup [1]: March 31 – April 3, 1978 46%
1980 United States presidential election in Connecticut [5] Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Count % Count % Republican: Ronald Reagan of California: George Bush of Texas: 677,210: 48.16%: 8: 100.00%: Democratic: Jimmy Carter of Georgia (incumbent) Walter Mondale of Minnesota (incumbent) 541,732 38.52% 0 0.00% Anderson ...
Also contesting the state was independent candidate Congressman John B. Anderson of Illinois, who won an unexpectedly solid 15.15%, mostly from disaffected Democratic voters. On election day, Reagan won a plurality of 41.90% of the vote in the state to Carter's 41.75%, with Anderson in third at 15.15%, giving Reagan a razor-thin margin of 0.1517%.