The 1980 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states, and

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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. ...

. Texas voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Texas was won by

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of California, who was running against incumbent President Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Reagan ran with former C.I.A. Director

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of Texas, and Carter ran with Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Despite Texas‘

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support of Carter, the state supported Reagan by a wide margin in the midst of a national landslide. Notwithstanding Carter’s loss in Texas – which was his weakest state in the South or border states except Virginia and

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which Ford had narrowly carried in 1976Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas
1980 Presidential General Election Data: National by State – Sorted by Vote Percentage for Carter
/ref> – the 1980 election is the last when the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Cherokee, Coke, Erath,

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, Leon,

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and

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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 As of 2020, this is the last presidential election in which Texas voted more Democratic than California.

Results

Results by county

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Results

Results by county

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