The 1980 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and
The District of Columbia
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, were part of the
1980 United States presidential election
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. ...
. Voters chose eight electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Connecticut was won by former California
Governor Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
by 10 points.
President of the United States
Jimmy Carter failed to gain reelection against Reagan. Connecticut election results reflect the
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's re-consolidation under what is popularly called the "Reagan Revolution,"
which sounded overwhelming
conservative electoral victories across the United States.
The already embattled incumbent Democratic president Carter was hurt in the state by the strong
third party candidacy of John Anderson, a
liberal Republican Congressman who ran in 1980 as an independent after failing to win the Republican Party's own presidential nomination. Anderson proved very popular with liberal and moderate voters in
New England who normally leaned Democratic but were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration and viewed Reagan as too far to the right. 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. In fact, Connecticut would prove to be Anderson's fifth strongest state in the nation after
Massachusetts,
Vermont,
Rhode Island and
New Hampshire. His 12.22% of the vote in the state was nearly double the 6.61% he got nationwide.
Despite Reagan's win in Connecticut, the Nutmeg State voted 0.11% more Democratic than the nation-at-large. As of 2022, this is the most recent election that Connecticut voted more Republican than the Southern states of
Alabama,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
North Carolina, and
South Carolina.
Results
By county
See also
*
United States presidential elections in Connecticut
References
Connecticut
1980
Events January
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1980 Connecticut elections
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