1980 United States presidential election in Utah
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The1980 United States presidential election in Utahtook place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states andthe District of Columbiawere part ofthe election.State voters chose four electors to theElectoral College,which selected thepresidentandvice presidentof the United States.
Utahwas won by formerGovernor of CaliforniaRonald Reagan,theRepublicannominee, who was running against incumbent President and formerGovernor of GeorgiaJimmy Carter,theDemocraticnominee. Reagan ran with formerC.I.A. DirectorGeorge H. W. BushofTexas,and Carter ran withWalter Mondale,incumbent vice president and former senator fromMinnesota.Reagan won the election nationally by a landslide.
Utah weighed in as the most Republican state in the nation in this election.[1]Carter's share of the popular vote remains the worst ever by a Democrat in Utah. Reagan wonCarbon Countyby a mere three votes, but easily beat Carter throughout the rest of the state, who was widely criticized for his inability to understand issues specific to the West (especially water development).[2]Carter’s next best county wasTooelewhere Reagan obtained 62.03 percent of the vote; Reagan surpassed three-quarters of the vote in seventeen of twenty-nine counties. In spite of Reagan's massive victory in the state, incumbent Democratic governorScott M. Mathesonwas comfortably re-elected in theconcurrent gubernatorial election- the last time a Democrat has won the Utah governorship to date.
Liberal RepublicanJohn B. Andersonran as an independent candidate with some success in theNortheast,thePacific Northwest,Colorado[3]and somecollege towns;[4]however in largely conservative, Mormon Utah, Anderson possessed less appeal, getting 5.01 percent of the vote statewide, and could not exceed 9.42 percent of the vote in any county. Anderson polled a mere three votes and 0.42 percent of the vote inPiute County,and a very low 1.47 percent of the vote out of over 86,000 votes cast in the second most populated county in the state,Utah County.
Results[edit]
1980 United States presidential election in Utah[5] | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||||
Republican | Ronald Reagan | 439,687 | 72.77% | 4 | ||||
Democratic | Jimmy Carter(incumbent) | 124,266 | 20.57% | 0 | ||||
Independent | John B. Anderson | 30,284 | 5.01% | 0 | ||||
Libertarian | Edward Clark | 7,226 | 1.20% | 0 | ||||
Citizen's Party | Barry Commoner | 1,009 | 0.17% | 0 | ||||
American Party | Percy Greaves Jr. | 965 | 0.16% | 0 | ||||
American Independent | John Rarick | 522 | 0.09% | 0 | ||||
Communist Party | Gus Hall | 139 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||
Socialist Workers Party | Clifton DeBerry | 124 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||
Totals | 604,182 | 100.0% | 4 |
Results by county[edit]
County[6] | Ronald Reagan Republican |
Jimmy Carter Democratic |
John B. Anderson Independent |
Ed Clark Libertarian |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Beaver | 1,477 | 68.47% | 621 | 28.79% | 43 | 1.99% | 13 | 0.60% | 3 | 0.14% | 856 | 39.68% | 2,157 |
Box Elder | 12,500 | 82.72% | 2,142 | 14.18% | 306 | 2.03% | 125 | 0.83% | 38 | 0.25% | 10,358 | 68.54% | 15,111 |
Cache | 20,251 | 78.69% | 3,639 | 14.14% | 1,494 | 5.81% | 223 | 0.87% | 128 | 0.50% | 16,612 | 64.55% | 25,735 |
Carbon | 4,320 | 47.67% | 4,317 | 47.63% | 309 | 3.41% | 104 | 1.15% | 13 | 0.14% | 3 | 0.04% | 9,063 |
Daggett | 290 | 69.88% | 109 | 26.27% | 10 | 2.41% | 6 | 1.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 181 | 43.61% | 415 |
Davis | 45,695 | 78.98% | 9,065 | 15.67% | 2,253 | 3.89% | 677 | 1.17% | 169 | 0.29% | 36,630 | 63.31% | 57,859 |
Duchesne | 3,827 | 79.41% | 854 | 17.72% | 87 | 1.81% | 13 | 0.27% | 38 | 0.79% | 2,973 | 61.69% | 4,819 |
Emery | 3,076 | 67.18% | 1,315 | 28.72% | 90 | 1.97% | 76 | 1.66% | 22 | 0.48% | 1,761 | 38.46% | 4,579 |
Garfield | 1,578 | 78.31% | 375 | 18.61% | 50 | 2.48% | 9 | 0.45% | 3 | 0.15% | 1,203 | 59.70% | 2,015 |
Grand | 2,362 | 70.42% | 703 | 20.96% | 205 | 6.11% | 60 | 1.79% | 24 | 0.72% | 1,659 | 49.46% | 3,354 |
Iron | 6,207 | 79.54% | 1,242 | 15.91% | 240 | 3.08% | 83 | 1.06% | 32 | 0.41% | 4,965 | 63.63% | 7,804 |
Juab | 1,872 | 69.31% | 720 | 26.66% | 51 | 1.89% | 50 | 1.85% | 8 | 0.30% | 1,152 | 42.65% | 2,701 |
Kane | 1,492 | 81.35% | 256 | 13.96% | 59 | 3.22% | 20 | 1.09% | 7 | 0.38% | 1,236 | 67.39% | 1,834 |
Millard | 3,620 | 79.79% | 795 | 17.52% | 72 | 1.59% | 37 | 0.82% | 13 | 0.29% | 2,825 | 62.27% | 4,537 |
Morgan | 1,985 | 81.52% | 373 | 15.32% | 42 | 1.72% | 28 | 1.15% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,612 | 66.20% | 2,435 |
Piute | 551 | 76.63% | 157 | 21.84% | 3 | 0.42% | 6 | 0.83% | 2 | 0.28% | 394 | 54.79% | 719 |
Rich | 762 | 81.15% | 143 | 15.23% | 18 | 1.92% | 13 | 1.38% | 3 | 0.32% | 619 | 65.92% | 939 |
Salt Lake | 169,411 | 67.00% | 58,472 | 23.13% | 19,547 | 7.73% | 3,881 | 1.53% | 1,524 | 0.60% | 110,939 | 43.87% | 252,835 |
San Juan | 2,774 | 76.00% | 763 | 20.90% | 72 | 1.97% | 18 | 0.49% | 23 | 0.63% | 2,011 | 55.10% | 3,650 |
Sanpete | 5,143 | 77.76% | 1,260 | 19.05% | 112 | 1.69% | 63 | 0.95% | 36 | 0.54% | 3,883 | 58.71% | 6,614 |
Sevier | 5,614 | 80.79% | 1,112 | 16.00% | 117 | 1.68% | 54 | 0.78% | 52 | 0.75% | 4,502 | 64.79% | 6,949 |
Summit | 3,330 | 65.38% | 1,184 | 23.25% | 480 | 9.42% | 79 | 1.55% | 20 | 0.39% | 2,146 | 42.13% | 5,093 |
Tooele | 6,024 | 62.03% | 3,132 | 32.25% | 391 | 4.03% | 133 | 1.37% | 32 | 0.33% | 2,892 | 29.78% | 9,712 |
Uintah | 6,045 | 82.45% | 1,049 | 14.31% | 155 | 2.11% | 67 | 0.91% | 16 | 0.22% | 4,996 | 68.14% | 7,332 |
Utah | 71,859 | 83.44% | 12,166 | 14.13% | 1,264 | 1.47% | 589 | 0.68% | 243 | 0.28% | 59,693 | 69.31% | 86,121 |
Wasatch | 2,799 | 70.93% | 994 | 25.19% | 113 | 2.86% | 32 | 0.81% | 8 | 0.20% | 1,805 | 45.74% | 3,946 |
Washington | 10,181 | 83.47% | 1,678 | 13.76% | 185 | 1.52% | 87 | 0.71% | 66 | 0.54% | 8,503 | 69.71% | 12,197 |
Wayne | 835 | 76.05% | 226 | 20.58% | 15 | 1.37% | 18 | 1.64% | 4 | 0.36% | 609 | 55.47% | 1,098 |
Weber | 43,807 | 69.98% | 15,404 | 24.61% | 2,501 | 4.00% | 662 | 1.06% | 225 | 0.36% | 28,403 | 45.37% | 62,599 |
Totals | 439,687 | 72.77% | 124,266 | 20.57% | 30,284 | 5.01% | 7,226 | 1.20% | 2,759 | 0.46% | 315,421 | 52.20% | 604,222 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican[edit]
See also[edit]
- United States presidential elections in Utah
- Iran–Contra affair
- Nicaragua guerrilla war
- Presidency of Ronald Reagan
References[edit]
- ^"1980 Presidential Election Statistics".Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.RetrievedMarch 5,2018.
- ^Reisner, Marc;Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water;p. 11ISBN0140178244
- ^1980 Presidential Election;Percentage of Vote for John B. Anderson
- ^Menendez, Albert J.;The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004,pp. 106-107ISBN0786422173
- ^"1980 Presidential General Election Results – Utah".RetrievedJanuary 2,2014.
- ^UT US Presidential Election November 04, 1980