1984 United States presidential election in Virginia

none June 2025 September 2023 1984 United States presidential election 1984 United States presidential election in Virginia Virginia presidential no 1980 United States presidential election in Virginia 1980 1988 United States presidential election in Virginia 1988 November 6, 1984 81.5%Registration/Turnout Reports - Summary of Virginia Registration & Turnout Statistics https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/registrationturnout-statistics/ Virginia Department of Elections x200px File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (4x5 cropped).jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 12 1,337,078 62.29% Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg Walter Mondale Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 0 796,250 37.09% 436px County and independent city results 436px Congressional district results 436px Precinct/VTD results Reagan #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Mondale #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% #002B84 90–100% No data #808080 President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) The 1984 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Virginia was won by 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 incumbent Vice President and former C.I.A. Director 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. Virginia weighed in for this election as 5 points more Republican than the national average. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which the independent cities of Franklin, Lexington, Roanoke, and Falls Church voted for the Republican candidate, and the last election when Virginia voted to the right of Mississippi. Reagan won Virginia by a landslide 25 percentage point margin. At the time, Virginia was considered to be a Republican stronghold. Virginia, which had been the only former Confederate state to vote for Gerald Ford in 1976, was not even particularly close in 1980. Virginia rejected the incumbent Southerner, Jimmy Carter, in favor of Reagan by nearly 13 points. Virginia would not vote Democratic until 2008, after which it has always voted Democratic. The 1984 election confirmed Virginia's position as a center of the emerging Republican South in the late 20th century. Reagan's 62.3 percent vote share in the state made it his seventeenth best nationally, and his fourth-best in the former Confederacy, after Florida, Texas, and South Carolina. (Of those three, Florida and Texas had similarly decisively rejected Carter in 1980.) Reagan performed well throughout all of Virginia's regions, relegating Mondale mostly to some largely African-American counties in the east, some highly unionized coal counties in southwest Virginia, and the independent cities of Alexandria, Norfolk, Richmond, and Portsmouth.Virginia Elections Database » 1984 President General Election https://historical.elections.virginia.gov/elections/view/47846/ 2021-01-14 Virginia Elections Database en-US Particularly noteworthy, however, was Reagan's strong performance in Virginia's large, suburban counties: he got over sixty percent of the vote in Fairfax County, which cast the most votes of any of the state's jurisdictions, and over seventy percent in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Henrico County, and Chesterfield County. He also got over 2 3 of the vote in the emerging exurb of Prince William County. Mondale flipped Arlington County, making Reagan the first Republican since William Howard Taft in 1908 to win the White House without carrying that county. Mondale also flipped the city of Alexandria. These were among a handful of counties nationwide that flipped against Reagan.Along with Keweenaw County, Michigan, Marin County, California, Santa Cruz County, California, Tompkins County, New York, Arlington County, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia, and Lane County, Oregon.The Political Graveyard: Arlington County, Va. http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-votes.html 2021-01-14 politicalgraveyard.com Campaign Among white voters, 72% supported Reagan while 27% supported Mondale.Black Black 1992 295Black Black 1992 335 Results 1984 United States presidential election in VirginiaStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984 https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1984election.pdf Clerk of the House of Representatives 60PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Ronald Reagan (inc.) 1,337,078 62.29% 12 Democratic Walter Mondale 796,250 37.09% 0 Independent Democrat Lyndon LaRouche 13,307 0.62% 0 Totals 2,146,635 100.0% 12 By city/county County orcity1984 President General Election https://historical.elections.virginia.gov/elections/view/47846/ September 13, 2024 Virginia Department of State: Historical Elections Database Ronald ReaganRepublican Walter MondaleDemocratic Lyndon LaRoucheIndependent Democrat Margin Total # % # % # % # % Accomack 8,047 64.55% 4,355 34.94% 64 0.51% 3,692 29.61% 12,466 Albemarle 14,455 64.16% 7,982 35.43% 93 0.41% 6,473 28.73% 22,530 Alexandria 21,166 46.77% 23,552 52.05% 535 1.18% -2,386 -5.28% 45,253 Alleghany 3,067 60.89% 1,932 38.36% 38 0.75% 1,135 22.53% 5,037 Amelia 2,336 61.41% 1,432 37.64% 36 0.95% 904 23.77% 3,804 Amherst 7,004 66.51% 3,409 32.37% 117 1.11% 3,595 34.14% 10,530 Appomattox 3,386 68.65% 1,498 30.37% 48 0.97% 1,888 38.28% 4,932 Arlington 34,848 48.24% 37,031 51.26% 363 0.50% -2,183 -3.02% 72,242 Augusta 15,308 79.22% 3,899 20.18% 116 0.60% 11,409 59.04% 19,323 Bath 1,434 65.93% 727 33.43% 14 0.64% 707 32.50% 2,175 Bedford 10,371 68.15% 4,754 31.24% 92 0.60% 5,617 36.91% 15,217 Bedford City 1,553 60.36% 997 38.75% 23 0.89% 556 21.61% 2,573 Bland 1,812 67.29% 867 32.19% 14 0.52% 945 35.10% 2,693 Botetourt 5,959 64.15% 3,243 34.91% 87 0.94% 2,716 29.24% 9,289 Bristol 5,012 67.11% 2,429 32.53% 27 0.36% 2,583 34.58% 7,468 Brunswick 2,950 48.58% 3,040 50.06% 83 1.37% -90 -1.48% 6,073 Buchanan 5,053 38.71% 7,828 59.97% 172 1.32% -2,775 -21.26% 13,053 Buckingham 2,627 57.36% 1,879 41.03% 74 1.62% 748 16.33% 4,580 Buena Vista 1,335 64.40% 724 34.93% 14 0.68% 611 29.47% 2,073 Campbell 13,388 74.69% 4,380 24.44% 156 0.87% 9,008 50.25% 17,924 Caroline 2,949 48.04% 3,111 50.68% 78 1.27% -162 -2.64% 6,138 Carroll 7,056 70.26% 2,914 29.02% 72 0.72% 4,142 41.24% 10,042 Charles City 776 30.03% 1,776 68.73% 32 1.24% -1,000 -38.70% 2,584 Charlotte 2,999 61.76% 1,811 37.29% 46 0.95% 1,188 24.47% 4,856 Charlottesville 6,947 48.56% 7,317 51.15% 42 0.29% -370 -2.59% 14,306 Chesapeake 27,542 61.64% 16,740 37.46% 402 0.90% 10,802 24.18% 44,684 Chesterfield 54,896 79.78% 13,739 19.97% 176 0.26% 41,157 59.81% 68,811 Clarke 2,529 67.21% 1,215 32.29% 19 0.50% 1,314 34.92% 3,763 Clifton Forge 965 51.44% 896 47.76% 15 0.80% 69 3.68% 1,876 Colonial Heights 6,387 83.71% 1,218 15.96% 25 0.33% 5,169 67.75% 7,630 Covington 1,722 54.46% 1,391 43.99% 49 1.55% 331 10.47% 3,162 Craig 1,173 57.70% 845 41.56% 15 0.74% 328 16.14% 2,033 Culpeper 5,596 70.60% 2,255 28.45% 75 0.95% 3,341 42.15% 7,926 Cumberland 2,027 60.89% 1,237 37.16% 65 1.95% 790 23.73% 3,329 Danville 12,141 66.85% 5,846 32.19% 174 0.96% 6,295 34.66% 18,161 Dickenson 3,921 44.34% 4,848 54.82% 75 0.85% -927 -10.48% 8,844 Dinwiddie 4,547 56.04% 3,485 42.95% 82 1.01% 1,062 13.09% 8,114 Emporia 1,252 60.25% 807 38.84% 19 0.91% 445 21.41% 2,078 Essex 2,120 61.63% 1,300 37.79% 20 0.58% 820 23.84% 3,440 Fairfax 183,181 62.88% 107,295 36.83% 822 0.28% 75,886 26.05% 291,298 Fairfax City 6,234 65.36% 3,263 34.21% 41 0.43% 2,971 31.15% 9,538 Falls Church 2,684 52.62% 2,398 47.01% 19 0.37% 286 5.61% 5,101 Fauquier 10,319 71.41% 4,056 28.07% 76 0.53% 6,263 43.34% 14,451 Floyd 3,431 67.69% 1,599 31.54% 39 0.77% 1,832 36.15% 5,069 Fluvanna 2,247 62.21% 1,332 36.88% 33 0.91% 915 25.33% 3,612 Franklin 7,684 60.21% 4,903 38.42% 175 1.37% 2,781 21.79% 12,762 Franklin City 1,561 49.87% 1,537 49.11% 32 1.02% 24 0.76% 3,130 Frederick 9,542 77.79% 2,671 21.77% 54 0.44% 6,871 56.02% 12,267 Fredericksburg 3,500 58.60% 2,439 40.83% 34 0.57% 1,061 17.77% 5,973 Galax 1,548 65.18% 814 34.27% 13 0.55% 734 30.91% 2,375 Giles 4,340 58.18% 3,047 40.84% 73 0.98% 1,293 17.34% 7,460 Gloucester 7,109 70.91% 2,830 28.23% 86 0.86% 4,279 42.68% 10,025 Goochland 3,404 60.60% 2,178 38.78% 35 0.62% 1,226 21.82% 5,617 Grayson 4,508 65.43% 2,319 33.66% 63 0.91% 2,189 31.77% 6,890 Greene 2,216 73.87% 760 25.33% 24 0.80% 1,456 48.54% 3,000 Greensville 2,304 48.28% 2,352 49.29% 116 2.43% -48 -1.01% 4,772 Halifax 6,726 60.58% 4,231 38.11% 146 1.31% 2,495 22.47% 11,103 Hampton 25,537 57.95% 18,180 41.25% 351 0.80% 7,357 16.70% 44,068 Hanover 18,800 79.26% 4,831 20.37% 87 0.37% 13,969 58.89% 23,718 Harrisonburg 5,221 68.15% 2,384 31.12% 56 0.73% 2,837 37.03% 7,661 Henrico 63,864 74.74% 21,336 24.97% 248 0.29% 42,528 49.77% 85,448 Henry 12,693 63.76% 6,976 35.04% 237 1.19% 5,717 28.72% 19,906 Highland 997 70.91% 398 28.31% 11 0.78% 599 42.60% 1,406 Hopewell 5,661 68.27% 2,564 30.92% 67 0.81% 3,097 37.35% 8,292 Isle of Wight 5,664 60.18% 3,650 38.78% 98 1.04% 2,014 21.40% 9,412 James City 7,104 66.54% 3,486 32.65% 87 0.81% 3,618 33.89% 10,677 King and Queen 1,449 54.39% 1,201 45.08% 14 0.53% 248 9.31% 2,664 King George 2,356 61.34% 1,450 37.75% 35 0.91% 906 23.59% 3,841 King William 2,803 65.43% 1,448 33.80% 33 0.77% 1,355 31.63% 4,284 Lancaster 3,416 67.72% 1,559 30.91% 69 1.37% 1,857 36.81% 5,044 Lee 5,365 50.83% 5,085 48.18% 104 0.99% 280 2.65% 10,554 Lexington 1,197 55.34% 946 43.74% 20 0.92% 251 11.60% 2,163 Loudoun 17,765 67.99% 8,227 31.49% 136 0.52% 9,538 36.50% 26,128 Louisa 3,789 57.91% 2,703 41.31% 51 0.78% 1,086 16.60% 6,543 Lunenburg 2,713 59.94% 1,754 38.75% 59 1.30% 959 21.19% 4,526 Lynchburg 18,047 67.41% 8,542 31.91% 183 0.68% 9,505 35.50% 26,772 Madison 2,723 67.15% 1,302 32.11% 30 0.74% 1,421 35.04% 4,055 Manassas 4,613 71.34% 1,824 28.21% 29 0.45% 2,789 43.13% 6,466 Manassas Park 975 71.96% 375 27.68% 5 0.37% 600 44.28% 1,355 Martinsville 4,234 58.37% 2,942 40.56% 78 1.08% 1,292 17.81% 7,254 Mathews 2,868 71.61% 1,106 27.62% 31 0.77% 1,762 43.99% 4,005 Mecklenburg 6,777 65.69% 3,438 33.33% 101 0.98% 3,339 32.36% 10,316 Middlesex 2,612 67.23% 1,206 31.04% 67 1.72% 1,406 36.19% 3,885 Montgomery 12,428 62.88% 7,202 36.44% 135 0.68% 5,226 26.44% 19,765 Nelson 2,777 57.22% 2,021 41.64% 55 1.13% 756 15.58% 4,853 New Kent 2,679 68.71% 1,204 30.88% 16 0.41% 1,475 37.83% 3,899 Newport News 33,614 60.35% 21,834 39.20% 250 0.45% 11,780 21.15% 55,698 Norfolk 36,360 48.15% 38,913 51.53% 243 0.32% -2,553 -3.38% 75,516 Northampton 2,906 55.81% 2,226 42.75% 75 1.44% 680 13.06% 5,207 Northumberland 3,166 68.41% 1,407 30.40% 55 1.19% 1,759 38.01% 4,628 Norton 806 48.32% 842 50.48% 20 1.20% -36 -2.16% 1,668 Nottoway 3,418 59.00% 2,296 39.63% 79 1.36% 1,122 19.37% 5,793 Orange 4,483 65.72% 2,285 33.50% 53 0.78% 2,198 32.22% 6,821 Page 5,021 66.78% 2,437 32.41% 61 0.81% 2,584 34.37% 7,519 Patrick 4,703 70.47% 1,908 28.59% 63 0.94% 2,795 41.88% 6,674 Petersburg 5,753 38.17% 9,248 61.35% 73 0.48% -3,495 -23.18% 15,074 Pittsylvania 15,743 66.08% 7,791 32.70% 290 1.22% 7,952 33.38% 23,824 Poquoson 3,667 84.73% 647 14.95% 14 0.32% 3,020 69.78% 4,328 Portsmouth 18,940 46.42% 21,623 53.00% 238 0.58% -2,683 -6.58% 40,801 Powhatan 3,921 73.61% 1,381 25.92% 25 0.47% 2,540 47.69% 5,327 Prince Edward 3,454 56.11% 2,589 42.06% 113 1.84% 865 14.05% 6,156 Prince George 4,999 69.64% 2,136 29.76% 43 0.60% 2,863 39.88% 7,178 Prince William 34,992 68.88% 15,631 30.77% 180 0.35% 19,361 38.11% 50,803 Pulaski 8,242 64.90% 4,364 34.36% 93 0.73% 3,878 30.54% 12,699 Radford 2,855 61.15% 1,781 38.15% 33 0.71% 1,074 23.00% 4,669 Rappahannock 1,696 62.65% 999 36.90% 12 0.44% 697 25.75% 2,707 Richmond 1,869 68.46% 830 30.40% 31 1.14% 1,039 38.06% 2,730 Richmond City 38,754 43.73% 49,408 55.75% 466 0.53% -10,654 -12.02% 88,628 Roanoke 23,348 68.56% 10,569 31.04% 137 0.40% 12,779 37.52% 34,054 Roanoke City 19,008 52.09% 17,300 47.41% 184 0.50% 1,708 4.68% 36,492 Rockbridge 4,067 65.66% 2,098 33.87% 29 0.47% 1,969 31.79% 6,194 Rockingham 13,480 75.70% 4,220 23.70% 107 0.60% 9,260 52.00% 17,807 Russell 5,738 45.54% 6,760 53.66% 101 0.80% -1,022 -8.12% 12,599 Salem 6,419 65.43% 3,347 34.12% 44 0.45% 3,072 31.31% 9,810 Scott 5,804 59.10% 3,904 39.75% 113 1.15% 1,900 19.35% 9,821 Shenandoah 9,048 76.03% 2,771 23.29% 81 0.68% 6,277 52.74% 11,900 Smyth 8,593 67.08% 4,102 32.02% 116 0.91% 4,491 35.06% 12,811 South Boston 1,899 65.64% 974 33.67% 20 0.69% 925 31.97% 2,893 Southampton 4,669 57.99% 3,300 40.99% 82 1.02% 1,369 17.00% 8,051 Spotsylvania 8,207 66.74% 4,012 32.63% 78 0.63% 4,195 34.11% 12,297 Stafford 10,293 69.63% 4,429 29.96% 60 0.41% 5,864 39.67% 14,782 Staunton 6,137 74.88% 2,012 24.55% 47 0.57% 4,125 50.33% 8,196 Suffolk 10,128 52.97% 8,842 46.25% 149 0.78% 1,286 6.72% 19,119 Surry 1,462 43.38% 1,875 55.64% 33 0.98% -413 -12.26% 3,370 Sussex 2,183 46.14% 2,408 50.90% 140 2.96% -225 -4.76% 4,731 Tazewell 9,645 53.89% 8,014 44.78% 237 1.32% 1,631 9.11% 17,896 Virginia Beach 72,571 74.36% 24,703 25.31% 320 0.33% 47,868 49.05% 97,594 Warren 5,016 65.73% 2,551 33.43% 64 0.84% 2,465 32.30% 7,631 Washington 12,132 68.06% 5,573 31.26% 121 0.68% 6,559 36.80% 17,826 Waynesboro 4,465 73.45% 1,579 25.97% 35 0.58% 2,886 47.48% 6,079 Westmoreland 3,219 56.84% 2,363 41.73% 81 1.43% 856 15.11% 5,663 Williamsburg 1,913 56.23% 1,469 43.18% 20 0.59% 444 13.05% 3,402 Winchester 5,055 70.68% 2,064 28.86% 33 0.46% 2,991 41.82% 7,152 Wise 7,909 51.36% 7,303 47.43% 187 1.21% 606 3.93% 15,399 Wythe 6,773 68.65% 2,996 30.37% 97 0.98% 3,777 38.28% 9,866 York 10,214 71.24% 4,063 28.34% 60 0.42% 6,151 42.90% 14,337Totals1,337,07862.29%796,25037.09%13,3070.62%540,82825.20%2,146,635 Counties and independent cities that flipped from Republican to Democratic Arlington Alexandria Counties and independent cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican 20em Alleghany Bath Buckingham Craig Dinwiddie Franklin Giles Henry Isle of Wight King and Queen Lee Louisa Nelson Northampton Pulaski Southampton Wise Bedford Buena Vista Clifton Forge Covington Franklin Hampton Lexington Radford Roanoke Suffolk Results by congressional district All ten congressional districts, including four that elected Democrats, voted for Reagan.https://archive.org/details/officialelection1984virg Official election results District Reagan Mondale RepresentativeVirginia 1 1st 62% 37%Herb BatemanVirginia 2 2nd 63% 37%George WhitehurstVirginia 3 3rd 65% 35%Tom BlileyVirginia 4 4th 56% 43%Norman SisiskyVirginia 5 5th 66% 34%Dan DanielVirginia 6 6th 66% 34%Jim OlinVirginia 7 7th69%31%James RobinsonDaniel SlaughterVirginia 8 8th 61% 38%Stanford ParrisVirginia 9 9th 58% 41%Rick BoucherVirginia 10 10th 59% 41%Frank Wolf See also Presidency of Ronald Reagan Notes References Works cited Black Earl Earl Black (political scientist) Black Merle Merle Black The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected Harvard University Press 1992 https://archive.org/details/vitalsouthhowpre0000blac 0674941306 Virginia 1984 Category:1984 Virginia elections