The 1980 United States presidential election in Washington was held on November 4, 1980 as 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. ...
. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Republican candidate Ronald Reagan won the state of
Washington with 49.66 percent of the vote. During the previous election in
1976
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, Reagan, who was not on the ballot in any of the fifty states, received one of Washington's electoral votes by
faithless elector Mike Padden.
Reagan won every county in the state except
Gray's Harbor and
Pacific Counties, neither of which ever voted Republican between
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. , Reagan's 1980 effort remains the last Republican win in
Jefferson County and was the last in
Cowlitz County until 2016. Third-party candidate John B. Anderson did well in
Western Washington,
[1980 Presidential Election]
Percentage of Vote for John B. Anderson
/ref> gaining many voters from disaffected major-party supporters and exceeding 14 percent of the vote in Kitsap and San Juan Counties.Whitman County
Whitman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,973. The county seat is Colfax, and its largest city is Pullman.
The county was formed from Stevens County in 1871. It is name ...
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Results
Results by county
See also
* United States presidential elections in Washington (state)
* Presidency of Ronald Reagan
References
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1980
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* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
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