1980 United States presidential election in Vermont

none July 2013 June 2025 September 2023 1980 United States presidential election 1980 United States presidential election in Vermont Vermont presidential no 1976 United States presidential election in Vermont 1976 1984 United States presidential election in Vermont 1984 November 4, 1980 x160px Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 3 94,598 44.37% Jimmy Carter presidential portrait (cropped 1).jpg Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Georgia Walter Mondale 0 81,891 38.41% John B. Anderson in New Jersey (cropped).jpg John B. Anderson Independent Illinois Patrick Lucey 0 31,760 14.90% x250px County results x250px Municipality results Reagan #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% Carter #D3E7FF 30–40% #B9D7FF 40–50% #86B6F2 50–60% President Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) The 1980 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1980, as part of the 1980 United States presidential election which was held throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont voted for the Republican nominee Ronald Reagan of California and his running mate George H.W. Bush of Texas. Reagan took 44.37% of the vote to incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s 38.41%, a victory margin of 5.96%. Independent John Anderson took 14.90%. Long a bastion of liberal Republicanism, Vermont was the only state in the nation to swing Democratic in 1980, having delivered a more comfortable 11.20% margin of victory to moderate Republican Gerald Ford just four years earlier in 1976, even as the rest of the nation swung hard toward the GOP in 1980. Whereas Ford had swept every county in the state of Vermont, Reagan narrowly lost two Northwestern counties, Chittenden and Grand Isle, to Carter. Reagan became the first Republican to ever win without Grand Isle County. The conservative Reagan would bleed a substantial amount of support in the state to John Anderson, who had been a liberal Republican congressman before mounting his independent bid for the presidency. Anderson proved very popular with liberal and moderate voters in New England who viewed Reagan as too far to the right and with normally leaning Democratic voters who were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration. New England overall would prove to be Anderson's strongest region in the nation, with all 6 New England states giving double-digit percentages to Anderson. Vermont would ultimately prove to be John Anderson’s second strongest state in the nation after neighboring Massachusetts, his 14.9% of the vote in the state more than double the 6.61% he got nationwide.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1980&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1980 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 Along with Maine, New York, Mississippi and Michigan, Vermont 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 both Chittenden and Grand Isle counties. To date, this is the last time that the towns of Brattleboro, Thetford, Vershire, and Woodbury voted Republican. Primaries +1980 Democratic PrimaryCandidateVotesDelegatesJimmy Carter (incumbent)29,01510Ted Kennedy10,1354Others5530Totals39,70314 +1980 Republican PrimaryCandidateVotesDelegatesRonald Reagan19,7206John Anderson19,0306George H.W. Bush14,2265Howard Baker8,0553Others4,5800Totals65,61120 Results 1980 United States presidential election in Vermonthttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1980&fips=50&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1980 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont 2013-04-14 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Ronald Reagan 94,598 44.37% 3 Democratic Jimmy Carter (incumbent) 81,891 38.41% 0 Independent John Anderson 31,760 14.90% 0 Citizens Barry Commoner 2,316 1.09% 0 Libertarian Ed Clark 1,900 0.89% 0 No party Write-ins 413 0.19% 0 Socialist David McReynolds 136 0.06% 0 Communist Gus Hall 118 0.06% 0 Socialist Workers Clifton DeBerry 75 0.04% 0 Totals 213,207 100.00% 3 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) 58%/68% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; VT US President Race, November 04, 1980 Ronald ReaganRepublican Jimmy CarterDemocratic John B. AndersonIndependent Barry CommonerCitizens Ed ClarkLibertarian Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # % # % Addison 5,216 44.85% 4,351 37.41% 1,751 15.06% 145 1.25% 145 1.25% 22 0.19% 865 7.44% 11,630 Bennington 6,091 44.39% 5,361 39.07% 1,978 14.42% 99 0.72% 151 1.10% 41 0.30% 730 5.32% 13,721 Caledonia 5,986 56.88% 3,284 31.21% 1,068 10.15% 80 0.76% 65 0.62% 40 0.38% 2,702 25.67% 10,523 Chittenden 18,310 39.00% 18,967 40.40% 8,409 17.91% 677 1.44% 406 0.86% 174 0.37% -657 -1.40% 46,943 Essex 1,305 55.77% 799 34.15% 148 6.32% 6 0.26% 77 3.29% 5 0.21% 506 21.62% 2,340 Franklin 5,998 44.61% 5,914 43.99% 1,350 10.04% 73 0.54% 80 0.60% 30 0.22% 84 0.62% 13,445 Grand Isle 947 42.28% 999 44.60% 260 11.61% 9 0.40% 19 0.85% 6 0.27% -52 -2.32% 2,240 Lamoille 3,228 46.85% 2,414 35.04% 1,048 15.21% 103 1.49% 76 1.10% 21 0.30% 814 11.81% 6,890 Orange 4,656 49.52% 3,079 32.75% 1,371 14.58% 149 1.58% 93 0.99% 54 0.57% 1,577 16.77% 9,402 Orleans 4,473 48.69% 3,671 39.96% 865 9.42% 54 0.59% 92 1.00% 32 0.35% 802 8.73% 9,187 Rutland 11,142 45.98% 9,596 39.60% 3,174 13.10% 102 0.42% 155 0.64% 65 0.27% 1,546 6.38% 24,234 Washington 9,714 41.96% 9,559 41.29% 3,256 14.06% 339 1.46% 198 0.86% 85 0.37% 155 0.67% 23,151 Windham 7,062 42.55% 5,830 35.12% 3,167 19.08% 296 1.78% 144 0.87% 99 0.60% 1,232 7.43% 16,598 Windsor 10,470 45.71% 8,067 35.22% 3,915 17.09% 184 0.80% 199 0.87% 68 0.30% 2,403 10.49% 22,903Totals94,59844.37%81,89138.41%31,76014.90%2,3161.09%1,9000.89%7420.35%12,7075.96%213,207 Counties flipped from Republican to Democratic Chittenden Grand Isle Analysis With Reagan only winning 44.37% of the popular vote, he became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Vermont's popular vote with only a plurality since William Howard Taft won the state with only 37.13% of the vote back in 1912. This marked the second and final time to date that has happened. This election would mark the beginning of Vermont’s transition from a staunchly Republican state to being one of the most Democratic states. Ronald Reagan represented the ascendency of the conservative movement within the modern Republican Party, a party which would become increasingly dominated by conservatives, Southerners, and Evangelical Christians during and after Reagan's administration. Vermont would consequently begin shifting increasingly toward the Democrats in the years to come. It is a highly Democratic state today, 2020 y, as it has been for over 25 years. Future Senator Bernie Sanders served as one of three electors for the Socialist Workers Party in Vermont.July 11, 1980 Socialists Launch Campaign to Get Candidates on Ballot 9 Rutland Herald https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64274411/rutland-daily-herald/ live https://archive.today/20201129224703/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64274411/rutland-daily-herald/ November 29, 2020 Newspapers.com November 29, 2020 See also United States presidential elections in Vermont References Vermont 1980 Category:1980 Vermont elections