1980 United States presidential election in Maine

none June 2025 September 2023 1980 United States presidential election 1980 United States presidential election in Maine Maine presidential no 1976 United States presidential election in Maine 1976 November 4, 1980 1984 United States presidential election in Maine 1984 x160px Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 4 238,522 45.61% Jimmy Carter presidential portrait (cropped 1).jpg Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Georgia Walter Mondale 0 220,974 42.25% John B. Anderson in New Jersey (cropped).jpg John B. Anderson Independent Illinois Patrick Lucey 0 53,327 10.20% 350px County results 350px Congressional district results 350px Municipality results Reagan #F2B3BE 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% Carter #B9D7FF 30–40% #B9D7FF 40–50% #86B6F2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Tie #D4C4DC President Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) The 1980 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maine was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a slim margin of 3%,https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1980&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1980 Presidential General Election Results – Maine uselectionatlas.org carrying fourteen out of sixteen counties. In recent years, however, the state has grown much more liberal, and no Republican presidential nominee has carried it since 1988.Brownstein Ronald Ronald Brownstein http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/breaching-the-blue-wall--20120510 Playing Their Hand National Journal May 10, 2012 May 24, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150525020422/http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/breaching-the-blue-wall--20120510 May 25, 2015 dead The already embattled incumbent Democratic president Carter was hurt in the state by the strong third party candidacy of John B. Anderson, a liberal Republican Congressman who ran in 1980 as an independent after failing to win the Republican Party's own presidential nomination. Anderson proved very popular with liberal and moderate voters in New England who normally leaned Democratic but were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter administration and viewed Reagan as too far to the right. New England overall would prove to be Anderson's strongest region in the nation, with all six New England states giving double-digit percentages to Anderson. However, Maine would prove to be Anderson's weakest state in New England with only 10.20% of the popular vote, whereas all five of the other states in New England gave Anderson over 12% of the popular vote, peaking at 15.15% in Massachusetts. Along with Michigan, New York, Mississippi and Vermont, Maine was one of the few states in which President Carter won counties that had gone to Ford in the previous presidential election, as Carter flipped Cumberland County. As a result, Reagan was the first Republican to ever win a presidential election without this county. This was the last presidential election in which Hancock County was the most Republican county in Maine. Primaries +1980 Democratic Caucus (10/02/1980)CandidateCDEDelegatesJimmy Carter (incumbent)13,66010Ted Kennedy12,04110Jerry Brown4,4943Totals30,19523 Results Ronald Reagan Republican 238,522 California 45.61% 4 George H. W. Bush Texas Jimmy Carter (incumbent) Democrat 220,974 Georgia 42.25% 0 Walter Mondale (incumbent) Minnesota John B. Anderson Independent 53,327 Illinois 10.20% 0 Patrick Lucey Wisconsin Ed Clark Libertarian 5,119 California 0.98% 0 David Koch New York Barry Commoner Citizens 4,394 New York 0.84% 0 LaDonna Harris Oklahoma Gus Hall Communist 591 New York 0.11% 0 Angela Davis California Write-in candidates — — 84 0.02% 0 — — 523,011 100.00% 4 270 Results by congressional district Reagan won both of Maine's congressional districts. 1980 1980 General Election: Presidential https://digitalmaine.com/tabulations_for_elections_1980s/10 Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions District Reagan Carter RepresentativeMaine 1 1st 45.02% 41.93%David F. EmeryMaine 2 2nd 46.29% 42.62%Olympia Snowe Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; ME US President Race, November 04, 1980 Ronald ReaganRepublican Jimmy CarterDemocratic John B. AndersonIndependent Ed ClarkLibertarian Barry CommonerCitizens Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # % # % Androscoggin 18,399 39.93% 22,715 49.29% 4,300 9.33% 414 0.90% 218 0.47% 34 0.07% -4,316 -9.36% 46,080 Aroostook 16,343 48.29% 14,492 42.82% 2,528 7.47% 275 0.81% 107 0.32% 101 0.30% 1,851 5.47% 33,846 Cumberland 45,820 42.64% 47,337 44.05% 12,214 11.37% 870 0.81% 1,088 1.01% 132 0.12% -1,517 -1.41% 107,461 Franklin 5,680 46.83% 4,979 41.05% 1,205 9.94% 108 0.89% 145 1.20% 11 0.09% 701 5.78% 12,128 Hancock 11,435 53.60% 7,027 32.94% 2,300 10.78% 270 1.27% 259 1.21% 43 0.20% 4,408 20.66% 21,334 Kennebec 21,517 43.84% 20,943 42.67% 5,553 11.31% 505 1.03% 500 1.02% 59 0.12% 574 1.17% 49,077 Knox 7,631 48.98% 5,732 36.79% 1,842 11.82% 165 1.06% 194 1.25% 17 0.11% 1,899 12.19% 15,581 Lincoln 7,434 52.14% 4,776 33.49% 1,556 10.91% 237 1.66% 240 1.68% 16 0.11% 2,658 18.65% 14,259 Oxford 11,041 47.04% 9,914 42.23% 2,063 8.79% 237 1.01% 186 0.79% 33 0.14% 1,127 4.81% 23,474 Penobscot 28,869 45.97% 26,519 42.23% 6,287 10.01% 642 1.02% 393 0.63% 83 0.13% 2,350 3.74% 62,793 Piscataquis 4,015 46.93% 3,550 41.50% 781 9.13% 147 1.72% 56 0.65% 6 0.07% 465 5.43% 8,555 Sagadahoc 5,946 45.23% 5,663 43.08% 1,252 9.52% 124 0.94% 151 1.15% 9 0.07% 283 2.15% 13,145 Somerset 9,286 47.59% 8,115 41.59% 1,673 8.57% 250 1.28% 166 0.85% 23 0.12% 1,171 6.00% 19,513 Waldo 6,514 49.57% 4,883 37.16% 1,304 9.92% 203 1.54% 212 1.61% 24 0.18% 1,631 12.41% 13,140 Washington 7,180 48.55% 6,050 40.91% 1,301 8.80% 130 0.88% 108 0.73% 19 0.13% 1,130 7.64% 14,788 York 31,412 46.31% 28,279 41.69% 7,168 10.57% 542 0.80% 371 0.55% 65 0.10% 3,133 4.62% 67,837Totals238,52245.61%220,97442.25%53,32710.20%5,1190.98%4,3940.84%6750.13%17,5483.36%523,011 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Cumberland Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Kennebec Somerset York See also United States presidential elections in Maine Presidency of Ronald Reagan References Maine 1980 Category:1980 Maine elections