The 1980 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, who voted for

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Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

was won by former California

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Ronald Reagan by a landslide of 32%. This result left the state 22.62% more Republican than the nation at-large, a differential greater even than when Barry Goldwater narrowly won his home state during his

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landslide defeat, and the most Republican relative to the nation at-large Arizona has ever been since statehood in 1912.Counting the Votes
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Reagan's victory margin was at the time the largest by a Republican, though he would beat his own record four years later. Only

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has won Arizona by a larger margin, whilst Carter's share of the popular vote remains the worst ever by a Democrat in the Grand Canyon State. Reagan won every county except heavily unionized Greenlee, which would never vote Republican until

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, in the process duplicating the state's

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county map. This stands as the last election when predominantly Native American Apache County has supported the Republican nominee.Sullivan, Robert David
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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 Carter's insensitivity to essential issues in the West, especially water development,Reisner, Marc; '' Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water''; p. 11 ensured he would be comfortably beaten in this normally solidly Republican state, which had been the only state no Democrat carried during the dealigned 1960s and 1970s.

Primaries

Results

Results by county

References

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