United States presidential election in South Carolina, 1980
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The 1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and
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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. ...
. South Carolina voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. South Carolina was won by former California Governor
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(R) by a very slim margin of 1 point and a half. This remains the third-closest presidential election in South Carolina history after the controversial 1876 election and the transformative 1952 election. The state weighed in for this election as 8% more Democratic than the national average, just 3% less than four years earlier. , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Anderson, Cherokee,
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Carter lost in eight of the ten most populous counties.


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1980 South Carolina elections