The 1980 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November4, 1980. All fifty states and the District of Columbia participated in the

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. Voters chose 21 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Michigan was won by former California governor

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( R) by 6.5%. This result nonetheless made Michigan 3.2% more

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than the nation at large. This is despite the fact that it voted to the right of the nation by over seven points in

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, when favorite son candidate

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won Michigan. Along with Maine,

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, Mississippi, and Vermont, Michigan was one of the few states in which President Carter won counties that had gone to Ford in the previous presidential election, as Carter flipped both Washtenaw and Marquette.

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Arenac *

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* Dickinson * Keweenaw * Monroe * Ogemaw * Ontonagon * Schoolcraft

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Marquette * Washtenaw

References

Notes

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