1984 United States presidential election in Michigan

none June 2025 September 2023 1984 United States presidential election 1984 United States presidential election in Michigan Michigan presidential no 1980 United States presidential election in Michigan 1980 1988 United States presidential election in Michigan 1988 All 20 Michigan votes to the Electoral College 59.3% http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1633_8722-29616--,00.html SOS - General Election Voter Registration/Turnout Statistics November 6, 1984 x200px File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (4x5 cropped).jpg Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) California George H. W. Bush 20 2,251,571 59.23% Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg Walter Mondale Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 0 1,529,638 40.24% President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) 375px County results 375px Congressional district results Reagan #F2B3BE 40–50% #E27F90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% Mondale #86B6F2 50–60% #0645B4 80–90% The 1984 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia participated in the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose 20 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Michigan 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 Vice President 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 Michigan, with just over 99% of the electorate voting either Democratic or Republican, though several more parties appeared on the ballot.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1984&fips=26&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1984 Presidential General Election Results – Michigan Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-11-11 All but five counties gave Reagan a majority; one (Marquette) gave him a plurality. Mondale carried just four counties, all with a majority: Wayne County (home of Detroit) and tiny Iron, Keweenaw, and Gogebic Counties, all in the Upper Peninsula, a region then typified by heavy unionization and the mining industry. Michigan weighed in for this election as 0.77% more Republican than the nation at large. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Washtenaw, Genesee, and Marquette counties 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 Bay, Saginaw, and Lake Counties would not vote Republican again until Donald Trump flipped them in 2016. Arenac County would not vote Republican again until 2012. Reagan won the election in Michigan with a decisive 19% landslide, marginally more than the national popular vote. He performed particularly strongly in suburban Oakland County, which he won by over 100,000 raw votes, but he performed strongly almost throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula (home to the vast majority of its population), including most of its major population centers aside from Wayne County: Oakland, Macomb (Warren), Kent (Grand Rapids), Genesee (Flint), Ingham (Lansing), Washtenaw (Ann Arbor), Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo), and Saginaw (Saginaw) all gave Reagan majorities. No nominee had carried so few counties in Michigan's Lower Peninsula since 1952—as Adlai Stevenson had carried Macomb as well as Wayne in 1956; Barry Goldwater had carried three counties in the Lower Peninsula in 1964; and even George McGovern had carried Washtenaw and Lake, in addition to Wayne, in 1972. Unlike Pennsylvania and some of the other Upper Midwest states, there were few signs in 1984 of Michigan's imminent transition to becoming part of the "blue wall" from 1992 through 2012. Whereas in some other states, Reagan either lost or only narrowly won working-class areas, he scored powerful wins in Macomb and Saginaw Counties. There were also few rural Democratic redoubts in the state in 1984, unlike many other states. Mondale made inroads elsewhere in the country in "cultural elite" counties including college counties, high-tech areas, and artists' colonies.As he flipped, Keweenaw County, Michigan, Marin County, California, Santa Cruz County, California, Tompkins County, New York, Arlington County, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia, and Lane County, Oregon.CQ Almanac Online Edition https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/login.php?requested=%2Fcqalmanac%2Fdocument.php%3Fid%3Dcqal96-841-24597-1091740 2021-01-01 library.cqpress.com However, Washtenaw County, home to the University of Michigan, flipped against Mondale, despite having voted even for McGovern in 1972. And, as elsewhere, Reagan scored heavily in the state's affluent suburbs particularly concentrated in Oakland County. In 1988, Michigan would continue its run of voting more Republican than the nation, although this time only slightly more so, before turning blue for six elections straight in 1992. This is the last election where Michigan voted more Republican than Ohio or Tennessee. Reagan was the last Republican candidate to win Michigan twice until Donald Trump did so in 2016 and 2024. He also remains the last Republican candidate to win the state in two consecutive elections. thumb|right|Reagan campaigning in Saginaw, Michigan, with congressional candidate and future Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and U.S. Senate candidate Jack Lousma Results 1984 United States presidential election in MichiganMichigan Manual 1985-1986 1985 Michigan Department of Management and Budget 464-466Scammon Richard M. McGillivray Alice V. America Votes 16: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics 1985 Congressional Quarterly Washington D.C. 236-237 https://archive.org/details/americavotes16am0000rich/page/236/mode/2up 26 May 2026 Ronald Reagan (inc.) Republican Party (United States) 2,251,571 59.23% Walter Mondale Democratic Party (United States) 1,529,638 40.24% David Bergland Libertarian Party (United States) 10,055 0.26% Lyndon LaRouche Independent 3,862 0.10% Larry Holmes Workers World Party 1,416 0.04% #DCDCDC Sonia Johnson IndependentAffiliated with the Citizen's Party nationally but listed as Independent on the ballot in Michigan. 1,191 0.03% Melvin Mason Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1,049 0.03% Gus Hall Communist Party USA 1,048 0.03% #DCDCDC Dennis Serrette IndependentAffiliated with the New Alliance Party nationally but listed as Independent on the ballot in Michigan. 665 0.02% #D30101 Edward Winn Workers League 561 0.01% Scattering Write-ins 602 0.02% 3,801,658 100.00% Results by county County Ronald ReaganRepublican Walter MondaleDemocratic Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # %Alcona3,22366.41%1,61633.30%140.29%1,60733.11%4,853Alger2,17551.69%2,01847.96%150.36%1573.73%4,208Allegan23,76273.48%8,38925.94%1870.58%15,37347.54%32,338Alpena8,21261.30%5,13638.34%490.37%3,07622.96%13,397Antrim5,72669.18%2,50730.29%440.53%3,21938.89%8,277Arenac3,48358.63%2,43641.00%220.37%1,04717.63%5,941Baraga1,96551.82%1,81847.94%90.24%1473.88%3,792Barry14,24569.98%5,98929.42%1220.60%8,25640.56%20,356Bay26,19853.43%22,59746.09%2350.48%3,6017.34%49,030Benzie3,59065.25%1,86633.91%460.84%1,72431.34%5,502Berrien43,16066.58%21,22832.75%4360.67%21,93233.83%64,824Branch11,00473.63%3,86025.83%810.54%7,14447.80%14,945Calhoun34,47062.60%20,31336.89%2840.52%14,15725.71%55,067Cass11,64763.32%6,63436.07%1130.61%5,01327.25%18,394Charlevoix6,35566.23%3,17533.09%650.68%3,18033.14%9,595Cheboygan6,05364.04%3,35835.53%410.43%2,69528.51%9,452Chippewa8,13563.77%4,57535.86%470.37%3,56027.91%12,757Clare6,58763.26%3,76436.15%610.59%2,82327.11%10,412Clinton17,38773.28%6,22626.24%1130.48%11,16147.04%23,726Crawford3,30367.46%1,55831.82%350.71%1,74535.64%4,896Delta8,95252.84%7,93446.83%560.33%1,0186.01%16,942Dickinson6,88054.91%5,61444.80%360.29%1,26610.11%12,530Eaton27,72072.57%10,29026.94%1890.49%17,43045.63%38,199Emmet7,76070.04%3,25429.37%660.60%4,50640.67%11,080Genesee92,94350.68%89,49148.80%9530.52%3,4521.88%183,387Gladwin5,40161.07%3,36838.08%750.85%2,03322.99%8,844Gogebic4,00641.81%5,55457.97%210.22%-1,548-16.16%9,581Grand Traverse18,03670.83%7,27128.55%1570.62%10,76542.28%25,464Gratiot10,45672.08%4,00027.57%500.34%6,45644.51%14,506Hillsdale12,06376.50%3,61622.93%890.56%8,44753.57%15,768Houghton8,65257.14%6,43442.49%550.36%2,21814.65%15,141Huron11,07373.37%3,96626.28%520.34%7,10747.09%15,091Ingham68,75359.23%46,41139.98%9190.79%22,34219.25%116,083Ionia14,16270.69%5,73528.62%1380.69%8,42742.07%20,035Iosco7,90766.99%3,85032.62%470.40%4,05734.37%11,804Iron3,46849.15%3,55950.44%290.41%-91-1.29%7,056Isabella12,21565.00%6,43534.24%1430.76%5,78030.76%18,793Jackson40,13368.27%18,34031.20%3120.53%21,79337.07%58,785Kalamazoo58,32763.82%32,46035.52%6010.66%25,86728.30%91,388Kalkaska3,62369.15%1,59530.44%210.40%2,02838.71%5,239Kent137,41767.03%66,23832.31%1,3650.67%71,17934.72%205,020Keweenaw59948.82%62851.18%00.00%-29-2.36%1,227Lake2,12553.09%1,84546.09%330.82%2807.00%4,003Lapeer19,22270.67%7,80028.68%1780.65%11,42241.99%27,200Leelanau5,35667.62%2,49831.54%670.85%2,85836.08%7,921Lenawee22,40966.70%11,01232.78%1760.52%11,39733.92%33,597Livingston31,84674.39%10,72025.04%2460.57%21,12649.35%42,812Luce1,71566.97%83332.53%130.51%88234.44%2,561Mackinac3,62764.85%1,94934.85%170.30%1,67830.00%5,593Macomb194,30066.20%97,81633.32%1,4090.48%96,48432.88%293,525Manistee6,32861.45%3,91738.04%530.51%2,41123.41%10,298Marquette14,19649.98%14,07449.55%1320.46%1220.43%28,402Mason8,20267.83%3,80331.45%870.72%4,39936.38%12,092Mecosta9,02368.66%4,04830.80%710.54%4,97537.86%13,142Menominee6,61859.68%4,42539.90%460.41%2,19319.78%11,089Midland21,52166.11%10,76933.08%2620.80%10,75233.03%32,552Missaukee3,97075.53%1,25623.90%300.57%2,71451.63%5,256Monroe29,41959.69%19,61739.80%2510.51%9,80219.89%49,287Montcalm13,10970.14%5,49129.38%890.48%7,61840.76%18,689Montmorency2,91367.54%1,38732.16%130.30%1,52635.38%4,313Muskegon39,35560.67%25,24738.92%2610.40%14,10821.75%64,863Newaygo10,63669.95%4,49629.57%730.48%6,14040.38%15,205Oakland306,05066.71%150,28632.76%2,4640.54%155,76433.95%458,800Oceana6,40568.69%2,86530.72%550.59%3,54037.97%9,325Ogemaw4,90160.81%3,13238.86%270.33%1,76921.95%8,060Ontonagon2,46450.95%2,35048.59%220.45%1142.36%4,836Osceola5,92373.21%2,12726.29%400.49%3,79646.92%8,090Oscoda2,23969.77%95129.64%190.59%1,28840.13%3,209Otsego4,63968.27%2,11731.16%390.57%2,52237.11%6,795Ottawa60,14279.69%15,00019.88%3260.43%45,14259.81%75,468Presque Isle4,20762.57%2,48136.90%360.54%1,72625.67%6,724Roscommon6,41965.35%3,35934.20%450.46%3,06031.15%9,823Saginaw51,49556.95%38,42042.49%5010.55%13,07514.46%90,416Sanilac12,62775.12%4,12624.54%570.34%8,50150.58%16,810Schoolcraft2,13952.47%1,92047.09%180.44%2195.38%4,077Shiawassee18,75665.97%9,51433.46%1610.57%9,24232.51%28,431St. Clair36,11467.63%16,99831.83%2870.54%19,11635.80%53,399St. Joseph15,40572.34%5,79527.21%960.45%9,61045.13%21,296Tuscola14,69870.01%6,21229.59%830.40%8,48640.42%20,993Van Buren16,42664.55%8,85334.79%1660.65%7,57329.76%25,445Washtenaw58,73651.27%55,08448.08%7490.65%3,6523.19%114,569Wayne367,39142.31%496,63257.19%4,3200.50%-129,241-14.88%868,343Wexford7,27967.93%3,39831.71%380.35%3,88136.22%10,715Totals2,251,57159.23%1,529,63840.24%20,4490.53%721,93318.99%3,801,658 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Alger Delta Genesee Lake Marquette Washtenaw Counties that flipped Republican to Democratic Keweenaw See also Presidency of Ronald Reagan United States presidential elections in Michigan Notes References Michigan 1984 United States presidential election