The 1984 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1984, and was 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 ...

. Voters chose 25 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President

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, over the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Walter Mondale. Reagan won Pennsylvania by a margin of 7.35%, making Pennsylvania 5.5% more Democratic than the nation at large. Reagan won the state by sweeping the small towns and rural areas of central Pennsylvania and performing well in the traditionally Republican suburbs of Philadelphia, but the race was kept within single digits by Mondale’s strong showing in heavily unionized and traditionally Democratic Western Pennsylvania, as well as his decisive victories in the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. , this is the last election in which Lackawanna County has voted Republican, the last time that Erie County gave a majority to a Republican ( Donald Trump would win it by plurality in

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), and the last time a Republican won one-third of the vote in Philadelphia.Sullivan, Robert David
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(along with

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and

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), and the most recent election in which it voted to the left of Illinois, Washington, or Hawaii. Reagan became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying

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or Armstrong Counties;

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would repeat this feat four years later, while

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would win without Mercer but with Armstrong in

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. Marian Bell, James F. Malone III, Ginny Thornburgh, Coral Scranton,

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, Harvey Bartle III, Thomas Milhollan, Marta Bell Schoeninger,

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, and Theodore Metzger Jr. were among the Republican electors. The Democratic elector slate included Judith Heh,

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, Cathy Irvis, James J. Manderino, and Nancy Nancarrow. Malone was the chair of the electors and Bell was an elector for Richard Nixon in

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and Reagan in

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Primaries

Republican primary

Ronald Reagan ran uncontested, winning 616,916 votes (Turnout: 27.66%)

Democratic primary

Results

1984 United States Presidential Election in Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area

Results by county

References

{{United States elections Pennsylvania

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