1984 United States presidential election in Colorado

none June 2025 September 2023 1984 United States presidential election 1984 United States presidential election in Colorado Colorado presidential 1980 United States presidential election in Colorado 1980 1988 United States presidential election in Colorado 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 8 821,818 63.44% Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg Walter Mondale Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 0 454,974 35.12% 1984 United States presidential election in Colorado results map by county.svg 280px County 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% President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) The 1984 United States presidential election in Colorado 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 eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Colorado 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. The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Colorado, with over 98% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties, though several parties appeared on the ballot.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1984&fips=8&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1984 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections All but two counties gave either Reagan or Mondale an outright majority, the two exceptions being Huerfano (which gave Mondale a plurality) and Lake (which gave Reagan a plurality). Reagan did best in Rio Blanco County, and Mondale did the best in Costilla County, along the Southern Rockies. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Adams County, Boulder County, Gilpin County, Lake County, Pitkin County, Saguache County, and San Miguel 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 This was the last election until 2020, won by Democrat Joe Biden, in which Colorado was decided by double digits. This election remains the last time Colorado voted to the right of Texas. Reagan won Colorado by a landslide margin of 28.3%, a little more than 10% in excess of his national 18.2% margin. His 63.4% vote share made the Columbine State Reagan's 15th-best in the nation. This was typical for Colorado at the time, as the Mountain West in general had trended toward being a Republican bastion since 1952.Paulson Arthur C. https://books.google.com/books?id=53rmOMcKGZ8C&dq=%22the+interior+west+and+the+northeast+quadrant%22&pg=PA13 Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 2000 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-275-96865-6 en Gerald Ford had carried Colorado by a double-digit margin amid his narrow national defeat in 1976. Reagan performed strongly throughout rural Colorado outside the Southern Rockies, along the border with northern New Mexico; not only did he carry a vast majority of Colorado's counties, but he exceeded 60% in a majority of them. However, particularly important for the strength of his win was his strong showing in the state's second and third-largest counties, the Denver-area suburban counties of Jefferson and Arapahoe, in both of which he exceeded two-thirds of the vote. There were few signs of any shakiness of the Republican strength in Colorado; Reagan even carried Pitkin County, the one county in the state that had switched from Nixon in 1968 to McGovern in 1972. Like several Mountain West states, Colorado was weaker than usual for the Republican Party in 1988, but would rebound to being sufficiently red to vote for Dole in 1996. The beginnings of Colorado's slide toward swing-state status, which would materialize in 2008, could, however, be seen in the ongoing weakening of Republican strength in Boulder County, one of the state's larger counties and at the time a traditionally Republican county. Reagan carried the county with 55.1%, substantially less than his national vote share; in 1976, Ford had carried it with 52.7%, 4.7% in excess of his national vote share. In 1968, Nixon received 57.7% of the county's vote; and in 1960, 61.5%. Another sign was the city-county of Denver switching from Reagan in 1980 to Mondale in 1984, despite Reagan running considerably stronger nationally in 1984 than in 1980. Denver was not strongly Democratic at the time; it voted for Kennedy and Carter only very narrowly in the nationally close elections of 1960 and 1976, respectively. In 1980, it had given Reagan a 42.2%-41.0% plurality (with John Anderson scoring a strong 13.7%). Republican fortunes in Denver and Boulder County steadily continued to sink after 1984, which was, as of 2024, the last election in which the Republican would stay above 40% in the former or carry the latter. Results thumb|left|On the campaign trail, President Reagan is welcomed at the graduation commencement for the United States Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. May, 1984. 1984 United States presidential election in ColoradoPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent) 821,818 63.44% 8 Democratic Walter Mondale 454,974 35.12% 0 Libertarian David Bergland 11,257 0.87% 0 Independent Lyndon LaRouche 4,662 0.36% 0 New Alliance Party Dennis Serrette 978 0.08% 0 Prohibition Earl Dodge 859 0.07% 0 Socialist Workers Party Melvin Mason 810 0.06% 0 Write-Ins 23 >0.01% 0 Totals 1,295,381 100.0% 8 By county CountyOur Campaigns; CO US President, November 06, 1984Ronald ReaganRepublicanWalter MondaleDemocraticVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % Adams 55,092 60.20% 35,285 38.56% 1,134 1.24% 19,807 21.64% 91,511 Alamosa 2,953 62.68% 1,720 36.51% 38 0.81% 1,233 26.17% 4,711 Arapahoe 107,556 71.92% 39,891 26.67% 2,107 1.41% 67,665 45.25% 149,554 Archuleta 1,557 71.98% 584 27.00% 22 1.02% 973 44.98% 2,163 Baca 1,903 75.85% 580 23.12% 26 1.03% 1,323 52.73% 2,509 Bent 1,314 59.75% 859 39.06% 26 1.19% 455 20.69% 2,199 Boulder 53,535 55.06% 42,195 43.40% 1,493 1.54% 11,340 11.66% 97,223 Chaffee 3,680 66.31% 1,779 32.05% 91 1.64% 1,901 34.26% 5,550 Cheyenne 892 73.23% 307 25.21% 19 1.56% 585 48.02% 1,218 Clear Creek 2,151 65.34% 1,089 33.08% 52 1.58% 1,062 32.26% 3,292 Conejos 1,669 51.40% 1,553 47.83% 25 0.77% 116 3.57% 3,247 Costilla 621 38.07% 997 61.13% 13 0.80% -376 -23.06% 1,631 Crowley 993 65.03% 517 33.86% 17 1.11% 476 31.17% 1,527 Custer 832 76.12% 241 22.05% 20 1.83% 591 54.07% 1,093 Delta 6,678 69.28% 2,835 29.41% 126 1.31% 3,843 39.87% 9,639 Denver 105,096 47.83% 110,200 50.15% 4,442 2.02% -5,104 -2.32% 219,738 Dolores 667 78.47% 173 20.35% 10 1.18% 494 58.12% 850 Douglas 12,249 79.33% 3,011 19.50% 181 1.17% 9,238 59.83% 15,441 Eagle 4,500 67.84% 2,032 30.63% 101 1.53% 2,468 37.21% 6,633 El Paso 88,377 75.04% 28,185 23.93% 1,210 1.03% 60,192 51.11% 117,772 Elbert 2,605 75.27% 802 23.17% 54 1.56% 1,803 52.10% 3,461 Fremont 8,250 67.31% 3,895 31.78% 111 0.91% 4,355 35.53% 12,256 Garfield 7,111 69.14% 3,076 29.91% 98 0.95% 4,035 39.23% 10,285 Gilpin 896 57.03% 634 40.36% 41 2.61% 262 16.67% 1,571 Grand 2,865 72.72% 1,017 25.81% 58 1.47% 1,848 46.91% 3,940 Gunnison 3,100 67.32% 1,424 30.92% 81 1.76% 1,676 36.40% 4,605 Hinsdale 310 74.88% 98 23.67% 6 1.45% 212 51.21% 414 Huerfano 1,581 49.04% 1,602 49.69% 41 1.27% -21 -0.65% 3,224 Jackson 722 78.22% 191 20.69% 10 1.09% 531 57.53% 923 Jefferson 124,496 68.92% 53,700 29.73% 2,432 1.35% 70,796 39.19% 180,628 Kiowa 850 75.22% 265 23.45% 15 1.33% 585 51.77% 1,130 Kit Carson 2,762 77.06% 778 21.71% 44 1.23% 1,984 55.35% 3,584 La Plata 8,719 67.49% 4,040 31.27% 159 1.24% 4,679 36.22% 12,918 Lake 1,364 49.65% 1,324 48.20% 59 2.15% 40 1.45% 2,747 Larimer 49,883 66.65% 23,896 31.93% 1,069 1.42% 25,987 34.72% 74,848 Las Animas 2,992 44.38% 3,670 54.43% 80 1.19% -678 -10.05% 6,742 Lincoln 1,661 72.91% 587 25.77% 30 1.32% 1,074 47.14% 2,278 Logan 5,883 72.33% 2,155 26.50% 95 1.17% 3,728 45.83% 8,133 Mesa 23,736 69.66% 9,938 29.17% 400 1.17% 13,798 40.49% 34,074 Mineral 333 72.55% 117 25.49% 9 1.96% 216 47.06% 459 Moffat 3,630 72.88% 1,228 24.65% 123 2.47% 2,402 48.23% 4,981 Montezuma 4,753 73.06% 1,665 25.59% 88 1.35% 3,088 47.47% 6,506 Montrose 7,162 70.40% 2,864 28.15% 147 1.45% 4,298 42.25% 10,173 Morgan 6,097 71.26% 2,331 27.24% 128 1.50% 3,766 44.02% 8,556 Otero 5,373 62.37% 3,005 34.88% 237 2.75% 2,368 27.49% 8,615 Ouray 914 70.85% 366 28.37% 10 0.78% 548 42.48% 1,290 Park 2,041 70.33% 782 26.95% 79 2.72% 1,259 43.38% 2,902 Phillips 1,689 71.36% 651 27.50% 27 1.14% 1,038 43.86% 2,367 Pitkin 3,117 56.39% 2,293 41.48% 118 2.13% 824 14.91% 5,528 Prowers 3,501 68.71% 1,467 28.79% 127 2.50% 2,034 39.92% 5,095 Pueblo 24,634 47.19% 27,126 51.97% 440 0.84% -2,492 -4.76% 52,200 Rio Blanco 2,131 80.81% 484 18.35% 22 0.84% 1,647 62.46% 2,637 Rio Grande 3,122 73.25% 1,104 25.90% 36 0.85% 2,018 47.35% 4,262 Routt 4,239 66.15% 2,051 32.01% 118 1.84% 2,188 34.14% 6,408 Saguache 1,201 57.63% 867 41.60% 16 0.77% 334 16.03% 2,084 San Juan 320 61.66% 183 35.26% 16 3.08% 137 26.40% 519 San Miguel 833 54.77% 654 43.00% 34 2.23% 179 11.77% 1,521 Sedgwick 1,146 72.39% 429 27.10% 8 0.51% 717 45.29% 1,583 Summit 3,253 66.14% 1,588 32.29% 77 1.57% 1,665 33.85% 4,918 Teller 3,460 75.84% 1,043 22.86% 59 1.30% 2,417 52.98% 4,562 Washington 2,080 77.50% 568 21.16% 36 1.34% 1,512 56.34% 2,684 Weld 31,293 68.51% 13,863 30.35% 523 1.14% 17,430 38.16% 45,679 Yuma 3,394 74.32% 1,121 24.55% 52 1.13% 2,273 49.77% 4,567Total821,81863.44%454,97435.12%18,5891.44%366,84428.32%1,295,381 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Denver By congressional district Reagan won five of six congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist/index.html?appid=79395dc96b5a45948d0d5c9fd0dc322a 1984 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District District Reagan Mondale RepresentativeColorado 1 1st 48% 52%Pat SchroederColorado 2 2nd 61% 39%Tim WirthColorado 3 3rd63%37%Ray KogovsekScott McInnisColorado 4 4th 68% 32%Hank BrownColorado 5 5th 75% 25%Ken KramerColorado 6 6th 69% 31%Daniel Schaefer See also Presidency of Ronald Reagan References Colorado 1984 Presidential election in Colorado