The 1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 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. ...
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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 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 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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,
Laurens,
Oconee,
Saluda and
York.
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Carter lost in eight of the ten most populous counties.
Predictions
Results
Results by county
References
Works cited
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1980 South Carolina elections