The 1980 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty 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. ...
. State voters chose four electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Idaho 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 ...
(R) by a 41-point landslide. It is a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
in
1964
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, and even Johnson won by merely five thousand votes in a national landslide. With 66.46 percent of the popular vote, Idaho would prove to be Reagan's second strongest state after neighboring
Utah.
Results
Results by county
See also
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United States presidential elections in Idaho
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Idaho, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1890, Idaho
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Presidency of Ronald Reagan
References
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1980 Idaho elections