The 1980 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1980, in
Georgia as 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. ...
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The
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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candidate,
incumbent President Jimmy Carter, won his home state of Georgia over former
California Governor Ronald Reagan
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by 238,565 votes, one of just seven victories in the election (other than Georgia, Carter also carried
Maryland,
Minnesota,
Hawaii,
West Virginia, the
District of Columbia and
Rhode Island).
Georgia weighed in as 25 points more Democratic than the national average: slightly down from 1976, when the Peach State was 32 points more Democratic than the nation at large. Just four years later, Georgia would flip back to Republican territory and vote Republican in every election since except for the narrow victories of
Bill Clinton in
1992
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and
Joe Biden in
2020
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. , this is the last election in which the counties of
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Gilmer,
Whitfield,
Union,
Rabun,
Stephens
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Jackson,
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Habersham,
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White,
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Gordon,
Paulding,
Spalding,
Troup,
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Houston,
Bartow,
Oconee,
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Cherokee,
Toombs,
Thomas,
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Colquitt,
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, and
Wayne voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
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gave a majority to a Democratic presidential candidate, although
Bill Clinton and incumbent president
George H. W. Bush
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tied there with 4,573 votes in
1992
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. This is also the last time a Democrat won Georgia by a double-digit margin, the last time that a Republican won the presidency without carrying Georgia, and the last time a Democrat won a majority of the vote in Georgia.
Primaries
General election
Results by county
References
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1980
Events January
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1980 Georgia (U.S. state) elections