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The 1984 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 6, 1984. All fifty states and
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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 Mondale also won heavily unionized copper-mining Greenlee County, Arizona, Greenlee County; albeit his performance there was the worst by a Democrat since statehood. Arizona weighed in for this election as sixteen points more Republican than the national average. Reagan won the election in Arizona with a decisive 34-point landslide. No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American Western United States, West at large as Reagan did.
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, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election
The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale, in a ...
. State voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President of the United States. Arizona was won by incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan
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of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with incumbent Vice President and former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush
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of Texas, and Mondale ran with Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York
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, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency.
The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan
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election for Arizona, with just under 99% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic
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or Republican parties, and only four parties appearing on the ballot. Nearly every county in Arizona voted with majorities for Reagan, a particularly strong turnout even in this typically conservative-leaning state. Reagan's win in Arizona was largely the result of a lopsided 45% victory margin in Maricopa
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County, the state's most populated county and home to Phoenix. Mondale did best in predominantly Native American Apache
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County, which was typical of his gains vis-à-vis Jimmy Carter in Native American counties throughout the nation; Reagan thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county.Sullivan, Robert David‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’
''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 Mondale also won heavily unionized copper-mining Greenlee County, Arizona, Greenlee County; albeit his performance there was the worst by a Democrat since statehood. Arizona weighed in for this election as sixteen points more Republican than the national average. Reagan won the election in Arizona with a decisive 34-point landslide. No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American Western United States, West at large as Reagan did.
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
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See also
* Presidency of Ronald ReaganReferences
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