1980 United States presidential election in Oregon

none June 2025 September 2023 1980 United States presidential election 1980 United States presidential election in Oregon Oregon presidential no 1976 United States presidential election in Oregon 1976 1984 United States presidential election in Oregon 1984 November 4, 1980 x160px Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 6 571,044 48.33% Jimmy Carter presidential portrait (cropped 1).jpg Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Georgia Walter Mondale 0 456,890 38.67% John B. Anderson in New Jersey (cropped).jpg John B. Anderson Independent Illinois Patrick Lucey 0 112,389 9.51% 1980 United States presidential election in Oregon results map by county.svg 300px County results Reagan #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% Carter #b9d7ff 40–50% President Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) The 1980 United States presidential election in Oregon 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 six electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Oregon had voted in 1976 for incumbent President Gerald Ford over challenger Carter in the previous election by an extremely narrow margin of just 1,713 votes, but had been George McGovern’s sixth-strongest state during his 1972 2,900-plus-county landslide loss. Both Carter and Reagan won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries held during the third week of May 1980.‘Bush Wins Michigan; Regan and Carter Are Oregon Victors – Californian Nears Majority’; The New York Times, May 21, 1980, p. A1 In August early in Carter's campaign, he targeted Oregon as a state he might win despite having supported only one Democrat since 1944,Perry, James M. and Hunt, Albert R.; ‘Negative Accent: Carter Plans to Win By Depicting Reagan As Shallow, Dangerous’; The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1980, p. 1 on the basis that independent candidate and Reagan primary rival John B. Anderson would split the GOP vote.Broder, David S.; ‘As Race Begins, Carter Trails in Key States He Must Win’; The Washington Post, August 16, 1980, p. A1 The last week of September saw all three leading candidates visit Oregon,Hunt, Albert R.; ‘Pacific Northwest Just Might Hold Key To White House, Draws All 3 Contenders’; The Wall Street Journal, September 29, 1980, p. 12 and at the end of the month Reagan was shown as ahead by around five percentage points, after having been in the lead in Oregon ever since the first polls were taken in mid-September.Cattani, Richard J.; ‘Reagan outstrides Carter in state-by-state quest for “electoral” support’; The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 1980 October saw Vice-President Walter Mondale doing extensive campaigning in the state,Smith, Terence; ‘Mondale Hunts for Votes’; New York Times Special, October 5, 1980, p. 40 and with polls showing Anderson winning over fifteen percent of the state's ballots and strong support for the Equal Rights Amendment opposed by Reagan, the Democrats possessed substantial hope in the state. By the last week of October, Carter's spokesmen were confident they could crack a state whose loss four years previously they attributed to the presence of Eugene McCarthy on the ballot,Martin, Lawrence; ‘Carter is leading, but election may hinge on debate, hostages’; The Globe and Mail; October 27, 1980, p. 13 but in the days before the poll sample votes swung towards Reagan again.Broder, David S.; ‘Carter has an uphill fight, state-by-state survey shows’; Boston Globe, November 2, 1980, p. 1 Oregon was ultimately won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by 9.66%.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1980&fips=41&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1980 Presidential General Election Results – Oregon Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas This made the state 0.06% to the left of the nation at-large and the closest to the national popular vote results. Reagan dominated in the conservative, populist eastern interior and Rogue Valley, where he won a majority in every county, and Carter, despite carrying four counties, did not win a majority in any due to a strong vote west of the Cascades for Anderson, who reached double figures in all Willamette Valley counties except Columbia and Linn. This was the first time the Republicans had carried Coos County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 285-286 0786422173 2020 11 As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Lane 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 Primaries +1980 Democratic PrimaryCandidateVotesDelegatesJimmy Carter (incumbent)208,69326Ted Kennedy114,65114Jerry Brown34,4090Others10,5690Totals368,32240 +1980 Republican PrimaryCandidateVotesDelegatesRonald Reagan170,44917George H.W. Bush109,21011John Anderson32,1180Others2,3240Totals314,10131 Results Ronald Reagan Republican 571,044 California 48.33% 6 George H.W. Bush Texas Jimmy Carter (incumbent) Democratic 456,890 Georgia 38.67% 0 Walter Mondale (incumbent) Minnesota John B. Anderson Independent 112,389 Illinois 9.51% 0 Patrick Lucey Wisconsin Ed Clark Libertarian 25,838 California 2.19% 0 David Koch New York Barry Commoner Independent 13,642 New York 1.15% 0 LaDonna Harris Oklahoma Write-ins — 1,713 — 0.14% 0 — — 1,181,516 100.00% 7 270 Results by county CountyRonald ReaganRepublicanJimmy CarterDemocraticJohn B. AndersonIndependentEd ClarkLibertarian Barry CommonerOur Campaigns; OR US President Race, November 04, 1980Independent Various candidatesWrite-ins Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # % # % Baker 4,747 59.24% 2,515 31.39% 487 6.08% 208 2.60% 56 0.70% 2,232 27.85% 8,013 Benton 14,982 43.42% 13,150 38.11% 4,950 14.34% 709 2.05% 648 1.88% 68 0.20% 1,832 5.31% 34,507 Clackamas 54,111 49.42% 40,462 36.96% 11,386 10.40% 2,676 2.44% 733 0.67% 115 0.11% 13,649 12.46% 109,483 Clatsop 6,124 40.94% 6,482 43.33% 1,854 12.39% 303 2.02% 182 1.22% 24 0.16% -358 -2.39% 14,959 Columbia 6,623 42.72% 7,124 45.95% 1,158 7.47% 486 3.13% 77 0.50% 37 0.24% -501 -3.23% 15,505 Coos 13,041 46.28% 11,817 41.94% 2,428 8.62% 636 2.26% 218 0.77% 36 0.13% 1,224 4.34% 28,176 Crook 3,113 53.10% 2,162 36.88% 435 7.42% 109 1.86% 30 0.51% 13 0.22% 951 16.22% 5,862 Curry 4,910 57.85% 2,656 31.29% 652 7.68% 185 2.18% 74 0.87% 11 0.13% 2,254 26.56% 8,488 Deschutes 15,186 52.89% 9,641 33.57% 2,909 10.13% 691 2.41% 258 0.90% 30 0.10% 5,545 19.32% 28,715 Douglas 23,101 58.46% 12,564 31.79% 2,529 6.40% 947 2.40% 330 0.84% 45 0.11% 10,537 26.67% 39,516 Gilliam 622 54.56% 394 34.56% 85 7.46% 28 2.46% 8 0.70% 3 0.26% 228 20.00% 1,140 Grant 2,519 60.16% 1,274 30.43% 273 6.52% 96 2.29% 25 0.60% 1,245 29.73% 4,187 Harney 2,313 61.11% 1,110 29.33% 255 6.74% 85 2.25% 18 0.48% 4 0.11% 1,203 31.78% 3,785 Hood River 3,450 48.65% 2,924 41.23% 530 7.47% 133 1.88% 53 0.75% 2 0.03% 526 7.42% 7,092 Jackson 32,879 55.97% 19,903 33.88% 4,019 6.84% 1,219 2.08% 624 1.06% 96 0.16% 12,976 22.09% 58,740 Jefferson 2,523 53.26% 1,654 34.92% 431 9.10% 95 2.01% 30 0.63% 4 0.08% 869 18.34% 4,737 Josephine 16,827 63.89% 7,116 27.02% 1,401 5.32% 718 2.73% 239 0.91% 35 0.13% 9,711 36.87% 26,336 Klamath 16,060 62.75% 7,371 28.80% 1,427 5.58% 598 2.34% 114 0.45% 22 0.09% 8,689 33.95% 25,592 Lake 2,234 60.56% 1,147 31.09% 201 5.45% 95 2.58% 12 0.33% 1,087 29.47% 3,689 Lane 54,750 43.59% 52,240 41.59% 12,076 9.61% 2,311 1.84% 4,024 3.20% 203 0.16% 2,510 2.00% 125,604 Lincoln 7,637 44.59% 7,009 40.92% 1,637 9.56% 559 3.26% 273 1.59% 12 0.07% 628 3.67% 17,127 Linn 18,943 52.19% 13,516 37.24% 2,823 7.78% 777 2.14% 189 0.52% 45 0.12% 5,427 14.95% 36,293 Malheur 7,705 67.80% 2,937 25.84% 472 4.15% 224 1.97% 20 0.18% 6 0.05% 4,768 41.96% 11,364 Marion 42,191 49.38% 32,134 37.61% 8,755 10.25% 1,677 1.96% 592 0.69% 100 0.12% 10,057 11.77% 85,449 Morrow 1,728 55.01% 1,077 34.29% 239 7.61% 86 2.74% 11 0.35% 651 20.72% 3,141 Multnomah 101,606 39.23% 120,487 46.53% 27,572 10.65% 5,320 2.05% 3,428 1.32% 555 0.21% -18,881 -7.30% 258,968 Polk 10,006 48.74% 7,833 38.15% 2,026 9.87% 455 2.22% 173 0.84% 38 0.19% 2,173 10.59% 20,531 Sherman 677 57.86% 389 33.25% 62 5.30% 29 2.48% 10 0.85% 3 0.26% 288 24.61% 1,170 Tillamook 4,123 41.63% 4,521 45.65% 931 9.40% 212 2.14% 100 1.01% 16 0.16% -398 -4.02% 9,903 Umatilla 12,950 57.78% 7,382 32.93% 1,531 6.83% 450 2.01% 80 0.36% 21 0.09% 5,568 24.85% 22,414 Union 6,514 57.79% 3,677 32.62% 763 6.77% 239 2.12% 71 0.63% 8 0.07% 2,837 25.17% 11,272 Wallowa 2,485 65.53% 995 26.24% 216 5.70% 68 1.79% 23 0.61% 5 0.13% 1,490 39.29% 3,792 Wasco 4,703 45.95% 4,336 42.36% 819 8.00% 245 2.39% 126 1.23% 6 0.06% 367 3.59% 10,235 Washington 57,165 51.34% 37,915 34.05% 13,076 11.74% 2,498 2.24% 578 0.52% 123 0.11% 19,250 17.29% 111,355 Wheeler 442 54.70% 282 34.90% 62 7.67% 13 1.61% 7 0.87% 2 0.25% 160 19.80% 808 Yamhill 12,054 51.15% 8,694 36.89% 1,919 8.14% 658 2.79% 218 0.92% 25 0.11% 3,360 14.26% 23,568Totals571,04448.33%456,89038.67%112,3899.51%25,8382.19%13,6421.15%1,7130.14%114,1549.66%1,181,516 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 22em Coos Crook Curry Deschutes Lane Lincoln Linn Morrow Wasco Wheeler See also United States presidential elections in Oregon Presidency of Ronald Reagan References Oregon 1980 Category:1980 Oregon elections