1984 United States presidential election in Illinois

none June 2025 September 2023 1984 United States presidential election in Illinois Illinois presidential no 1980 United States presidential election in Illinois 1980 1988 United States presidential election in Illinois 1988 November 6, 1984 x200px File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (4x5 cropped).jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 24 2,707,103 56.17% Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg Walter Mondale Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 0 2,086,499 43.30% 180px County results 180px Township results Reagan #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Mondale #86b6f2 50–60% #4389E3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #002B84 90–100% Tie #D4C4DC President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) 74.48% The 1984 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. State voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Illinois gave its electoral votes to incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Mondale ran with Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency. Reagan, who was born and raised in Illinois, had moved to California as a young man. As of 2024, this is the last time a Republican presidential candidate won over 1 million votes in Cook County, the state's most populous county and home to Chicago. The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Illinois, with over 99% of the electorate voting only either for Democratic candidate Mondale or Republican candidate Reagan, though several other parties did appear on the presidential ballot in the State.http://uselectionatlas.org Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Uselectionatlas.org 2013-11-11 Nearly every county in Illinois voted in majority for Reagan. One notable exception to this trend was Chicago's highly populated Cook County, which voted in majority for Mondale, albeit with a 2.6% margin, or 51% to 48.4%. Likewise, 1984 marks the last time any presidential candidate won Cook County with a single-digit margin, and the last election that a Republican won over a million votes in that county. Fulton, Henderson, Knox, Mercer, and Putnam Counties would not vote Republican again until 2016, while Calhoun and Madison counties would not do so again until 2012. Illinois weighed in for this election as 5 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Jackson County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Reagan won the election in Illinois with a decisive 13-point landslide, carrying 96 out of 102 counties. No Republican candidate has received as strong support in the American Great Lakes States, at large, post-Reagan. While Illinois typically voted conservative at the time, the election results in Illinois also reflect a nationwide reconsolidation of base for the Republican Party which took place through the 1980s; Reagan called it the "second American Revolution."https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/07/politics/07REAG.html?pagewanted=1 Reagan Wins By a Landslide, Sweeping at Least 48 States; G.O.P. Gains Strength in House The New York Times November 7, 1984 November 11, 2013 Raines, Howell This was most evident during the 1984 presidential election. Notably, this is the closest to date that a Republican has come to carrying Cook County, home to Chicago, since Richard Nixon won it in 1972. One of the electors initially gave his vote for vice president to Ferraro by accident, but fixed the mistake on a second ballot.December 18, 1984 Electoral college confirms Reagan landslide A4 The News Tribune https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune/149243653/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240613065135/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune/149243653/ June 13, 2024 Newspapers.com Primaries The primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate and House), as well as those for state offices. Turnout Turnout in the state-run primary elections (Democratic and Republican) was 37.25% with a total of 2,254,503 votes cast.OFFICIAL VOTE Cast at the GENERAL PRIMARY ELECTION MARCH 20, 1984 https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1984/1984%20PE.PDF www.elections.il.gov Illinois State Board of Elections 24 April 2020 March 15, 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20030315000000/https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals.PDF dead Turnout during the general election was 74.48%, with 4,819,088 votes cast.OFFICIAL VOTE Cast at the GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 6, 1984 https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1984/1984%20GE.PDF www.elections.il.gov Illinois State Board of Elections 24 April 2020 February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes State-run primaries were held for the Democratic and Republican parties on March 20. Democratic 1984 Illinois Democratic presidential primary no 1980 Illinois Democratic presidential primary 1980 1988 Illinois Democratic presidential primary 1988 presidential Illinois 1984 03 20 Walter Mondale File:Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg 150x150px 567953 Minnesota 670,951 40.43% Gary Hart File:Gary hart (1).jpg a59400 Colorado 584,579 35.23% Jesse Jackson File: Jesse Jackson (a).jpg 73638c Illinois 348,843 21.02% 280px The 1984 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 20, 1984, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1984 presidential election. Jackson's voters were 88% black, 10% white, and 1% were members of other groups.Ranney 1985 54 1984 Illinois Democratic presidential primaryCandidateVotes%Delegates Walter Frederick Mondale 670,951 40.43 Gary Hart 584,579 35.23 Jesse L. Jackson 348,843 21.02 George McGovern withdrew 25,336 1.53 John Glenn withdrew 19,800 1.19 Betty Jean Williams 4,797 0.29 Alan Cranston withdrew 2,786 0.17 Reubin Askew withdrew 2,182 0.13 Write-in 151 0.01Total1,659,425100 Republican 1984 Illinois Republican presidential primary Illinois presidential no 1980 Illinois Republican presidential primary 1980 1988 Illinois Republican presidential primary 1988 1984 03 20 150x150px Ronald Reagan California 594,742 99.94% FF3333 100px The 1984 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 20, 1984, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1984 presidential election. 1984 Illinois Republican presidential primaryCandidateVotes%DelegatesRonald Reagan (incumbent) 594,742 99.94 Write-in 336 0.06Total595,078100 Results 1984 United States presidential election in IllinoisPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent) 2,707,103 56.17% 24 Democratic Walter Mondale 2,086,499 43.30% 0 Libertarian David Bergland 10,086 0.21% 0 Communist Party Gus Hall 4,672 0.10% 0 Citizen's Party Sonia Johnson 2,716 0.06% 0 Socialist Equality Party Edward Winn 2,632 0.05% 0 New Alliance Party Dennis Serrette 2,386 0.05% 0 Socialist Workers Party Melvin Mason 2,132 0.04% 0 Write-Ins 862 0.02% 0 Totals 4,819,088 100.0% 24 Results by county CountyRonald ReaganRepublicanWalter MondaleDemocraticVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % Adams 20,225 65.99% 10,336 33.72% 88 0.29% 9,889 32.27% 30,649 Alexander 2,574 47.08% 2,872 52.53% 21 0.38% -298 -5.45% 5,467 Bond 4,240 59.46% 2,870 40.25% 21 0.29% 1,370 19.21% 7,131 Boone 7,536 66.65% 3,717 32.88% 53 0.47% 3,819 33.77% 11,306 Brown 1,478 60.43% 959 39.21% 9 0.37% 519 21.22% 2,446 Bureau 11,741 62.57% 6,925 36.90% 99 0.53% 4,816 25.67% 18,765 Calhoun 1,648 53.04% 1,443 46.44% 16 0.51% 205 6.60% 3,107 Carroll 5,237 68.39% 2,398 31.31% 23 0.30% 2,839 37.08% 7,658 Cass 3,435 53.68% 2,937 45.90% 27 0.42% 498 7.78% 6,399 Champaign 39,224 58.61% 27,266 40.74% 435 0.65% 11,958 17.87% 66,925 Christian 8,534 52.84% 7,541 46.69% 77 0.48% 993 6.15% 16,152 Clark 5,318 63.45% 3,032 36.17% 32 0.38% 2,286 27.28% 8,382 Clay 4,562 64.22% 2,524 35.53% 18 0.25% 2,038 28.69% 7,104 Clinton 9,233 66.43% 4,628 33.30% 38 0.27% 4,605 33.13% 13,899 Coles 14,044 65.95% 7,156 33.60% 95 0.45% 6,888 32.35% 21,295 Cook 1,055,558 48.40% 1,112,641 51.02% 12,536 0.57% -57,083 -2.62% 2,180,735 Crawford 6,261 66.44% 3,130 33.21% 33 0.35% 3,131 33.23% 9,424 Cumberland 3,002 63.04% 1,733 36.39% 27 0.57% 1,269 26.65% 4,762 DeKalb 20,294 64.50% 10,942 34.78% 229 0.73% 9,352 29.72% 31,465 DeWitt 4,534 65.57% 2,352 34.01% 29 0.42% 2,182 31.56% 6,915 Douglas 5,691 66.14% 2,886 33.54% 27 0.31% 2,805 32.60% 8,604 DuPage 227,141 75.66% 71,430 23.79% 1,644 0.55% 155,711 51.87% 300,215 Edgar 6,821 67.54% 3,241 32.09% 37 0.37% 3,580 35.45% 10,099 Edwards 2,778 72.25% 1,057 27.49% 10 0.26% 1,721 44.76% 3,845 Effingham 9,617 71.22% 3,841 28.44% 46 0.34% 5,776 42.78% 13,504 Fayette 6,607 63.09% 3,844 36.70% 22 0.21% 2,763 26.39% 10,473 Ford 4,871 73.11% 1,763 26.46% 29 0.44% 3,108 46.65% 6,663 Franklin 9,656 47.39% 10,667 52.35% 54 0.27% -1,011 -4.96% 20,377 Fulton 9,147 49.77% 9,131 49.69% 99 0.54% 16 0.08% 18,377 Gallatin 1,939 47.15% 2,164 52.63% 9 0.22% -225 -5.48% 4,112 Greene 4,057 60.96% 2,563 38.51% 35 0.53% 1,494 22.45% 6,655 Grundy 9,595 66.98% 4,671 32.61% 59 0.41% 4,924 34.37% 14,325 Hamilton 3,074 57.50% 2,251 42.11% 21 0.39% 823 15.39% 5,346 Hancock 6,251 62.50% 3,713 37.13% 37 0.37% 2,538 25.37% 10,001 Hardin 1,689 58.26% 1,205 41.57% 5 0.17% 484 16.69% 2,899 Henderson 2,289 53.51% 1,969 46.03% 20 0.47% 320 7.48% 4,278 Henry 14,504 57.41% 10,679 42.27% 79 0.31% 3,825 15.14% 25,262 Iroquois 11,327 77.13% 3,300 22.47% 58 0.39% 8,027 54.66% 14,685 Jackson 13,609 52.55% 12,105 46.74% 182 0.70% 1,504 5.81% 25,896 Jasper 3,673 67.35% 1,750 32.09% 31 0.57% 1,923 35.26% 5,454 Jefferson 9,642 57.10% 7,200 42.64% 43 0.25% 2,442 14.46% 16,885 Jersey 5,146 57.60% 3,762 42.11% 26 0.29% 1,384 15.49% 8,934 Jo Daviess 5,877 63.18% 3,348 35.99% 77 0.83% 2,529 27.19% 9,302 Johnson 3,424 67.36% 1,647 32.40% 12 0.24% 1,777 34.96% 5,083 Kane 72,655 69.09% 31,875 30.31% 629 0.60% 40,780 38.78% 105,159 Kankakee 23,807 60.02% 15,246 38.44% 612 1.54% 8,561 21.58% 39,665 Kendall 10,872 73.81% 3,789 25.72% 69 0.47% 7,083 48.09% 14,730 Knox 14,974 55.21% 12,027 44.34% 121 0.45% 2,947 10.87% 27,122 Lake 118,401 68.35% 53,947 31.14% 876 0.51% 64,454 37.21% 173,224 LaSalle 27,388 56.89% 20,532 42.65% 219 0.45% 6,856 14.24% 48,139 Lawrence 4,686 61.35% 2,924 38.28% 28 0.37% 1,762 23.07% 7,638 Lee 11,178 73.76% 3,919 25.86% 58 0.38% 7,259 47.90% 15,155 Livingston 12,291 72.65% 4,567 26.99% 61 0.36% 7,724 45.66% 16,919 Logan 9,932 70.71% 4,052 28.85% 62 0.44% 5,880 41.86% 14,046 Macon 30,457 54.28% 25,463 45.38% 192 0.34% 4,994 8.90% 56,112 Macoupin 12,282 53.51% 10,602 46.19% 69 0.30% 1,680 7.32% 22,953 Madison 57,021 53.94% 48,352 45.74% 340 0.32% 8,669 8.20% 105,713 Marion 11,300 59.65% 7,599 40.11% 46 0.24% 3,701 19.54% 18,945 Marshall 4,060 62.53% 2,386 36.75% 47 0.72% 1,674 25.78% 6,493 Mason 4,109 54.89% 3,354 44.80% 23 0.31% 755 10.09% 7,486 Massac 3,827 54.29% 3,194 45.31% 28 0.40% 633 8.98% 7,049 McDonough 9,383 67.02% 4,561 32.58% 57 0.41% 4,822 34.44% 14,001 McHenry 47,282 76.21% 14,420 23.24% 340 0.55% 32,862 52.97% 62,042 McLean 32,221 66.64% 15,880 32.84% 248 0.51% 16,341 33.80% 48,349 Menard 3,925 68.07% 1,826 31.67% 15 0.26% 2,099 36.40% 5,766 Mercer 4,907 54.97% 3,982 44.61% 38 0.43% 925 10.36% 8,927 Monroe 6,936 67.89% 3,256 31.87% 25 0.24% 3,680 36.02% 10,217 Montgomery 8,191 56.08% 6,360 43.55% 54 0.37% 1,831 12.53% 14,605 Morgan 10,683 66.37% 5,361 33.30% 53 0.33% 5,322 33.07% 16,097 Moultrie 3,593 59.17% 2,458 40.48% 21 0.35% 1,135 18.69% 6,072 Ogle 13,503 73.40% 4,803 26.11% 90 0.49% 8,700 47.29% 18,396 Peoria 45,607 55.02% 36,830 44.43% 462 0.56% 8,777 10.59% 82,899 Perry 5,852 55.88% 4,584 43.77% 36 0.34% 1,268 12.11% 10,472 Piatt 5,000 63.46% 2,840 36.05% 39 0.49% 2,160 27.41% 7,879 Pike 5,295 57.03% 3,965 42.70% 25 0.27% 1,330 14.33% 9,285 Pope 1,545 62.00% 940 37.72% 7 0.28% 605 24.28% 2,492 Pulaski 1,923 52.48% 1,724 47.05% 17 0.46% 199 5.43% 3,664 Putnam 1,912 56.02% 1,487 43.57% 14 0.41% 425 12.45% 3,413 Randolph 9,415 59.48% 6,355 40.15% 59 0.37% 3,060 19.33% 15,829 Richland 5,665 71.95% 2,182 27.71% 27 0.34% 3,483 44.24% 7,874 Rock Island 35,121 46.41% 40,208 53.13% 343 0.45% -5,087 -6.72% 75,672 Saline 7,176 54.15% 6,038 45.57% 37 0.28% 1,138 8.58% 13,251 Sangamon 54,086 61.10% 34,059 38.47% 378 0.43% 20,027 22.63% 88,523 Schuyler 2,515 61.93% 1,533 37.75% 13 0.32% 982 24.18% 4,061 Scott 1,976 67.33% 943 32.13% 16 0.55% 1,033 35.20% 2,935 Shelby 6,372 59.38% 4,317 40.23% 41 0.38% 2,055 19.15% 10,730 St. Clair 51,046 49.01% 52,294 50.21% 808 0.78% -1,248 -1.20% 104,148 Stark 2,228 67.15% 1,072 32.31% 18 0.54% 1,156 34.84% 3,318 Stephenson 14,237 67.37% 6,723 31.82% 171 0.81% 7,514 35.55% 21,131 Tazewell 33,782 59.15% 23,095 40.44% 238 0.42% 10,687 18.71% 57,115 Union 4,721 55.13% 3,815 44.55% 28 0.33% 906 10.58% 8,564 Vermilion 22,932 57.89% 16,530 41.73% 149 0.38% 6,402 16.16% 39,611 Wabash 3,639 66.73% 1,795 32.92% 19 0.35% 1,844 33.81% 5,453 Warren 5,846 63.59% 3,318 36.09% 29 0.32% 2,528 27.50% 9,193 Washington 5,129 68.24% 2,363 31.44% 24 0.32% 2,766 36.80% 7,516 Wayne 6,298 70.36% 2,621 29.28% 32 0.36% 3,677 41.08% 8,951 White 5,500 61.23% 3,457 38.48% 26 0.29% 2,043 22.75% 8,983 Whiteside 16,743 59.59% 11,226 39.96% 127 0.45% 5,517 19.63% 28,096 Will 78,684 63.25% 45,193 36.33% 520 0.42% 33,491 26.92% 124,397 Williamson 14,930 56.06% 11,614 43.61% 86 0.32% 3,316 12.45% 26,630 Winnebago 64,203 58.66% 44,629 40.78% 619 0.57% 19,574 17.88% 109,451 Woodford 10,758 70.44% 4,425 28.97% 89 0.58% 6,333 41.47% 15,272Totals2,707,10356.17%2,086,49943.30%25,4860.53%620,60412.87%4,819,088 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Franklin Gallatin Rock Island By congressional district Reagan won 18 of 22 congressional districts, 9 of which elected Democrat representatives. District Reagan Mondale Representative Illinois 1 1st 4.92% 95.08% Charles Hayes Illinois 2 2nd 16.28% 83.72% Gus Savage Illinois 3 3rd 65.13% 34.87% Marty Russo Illinois 4 4th 50.05% 49.95% George M. O'Brien Illinois 5 5th 58.33% 41.67% Bill Lipinski Illinois 6 6th 55.68% 44.32% Henry Hyde Illinois 7 7th 25.10% 74.90% Cardiss Collins Illinois 8 8th 51.40% 48.60% Dan Rostenkowski Illinois 9 9th 45.02% 54.98% Sidney R. Yates Illinois 10 10th 68.55% 31.45% John Porter Illinois 11 11th59.31% 40.69% Frank Annunzio Illinois 12 12th 76.88% 23.12% Phil Crane Illinois 13 13th54.13%45.87% John N. Erlenborn Harris Fawell Illinois 14 14th69.19%30.81% Tom Corcoran John E. Grotberg Illinois 15 15th 68.00% 32.00% Ed Madigan Illinois 16 16th 63.16% 36.84% Lynn M. Martin Illinois 17 17th 54.31% 45.69% Lane Evans Illinois 18 18th 61.86% 38.14% Bob Michel Illinois 19 19th62.40%37.60% Dan Crane Terry L. Bruce Illinois 20 20th 58.06% 41.94% Dick Durbin Illinois 21 21st 53.42% 46.58% Melvin Price Illinois 22 22nd55.84%44.16% Paul Simon Kenneth J. Gray See also Presidency of Ronald Reagan United States presidential elections in Illinois References Works cited Ranney Austin J. Austin Ranney The American Elections of 1984 Duke University Press 1985 0822302306 Illinois 1984 Category:1984 Illinois elections