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Reagan won the election in a landslide, with 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49 and 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote and no electoral votes.
Oct 23, 2016 · Ronald Reagan won the 1980 general election in a landslide despite trailing as much as 8% behind Jimmy Carter in some mid-October polls. What's False. Reagan wasn't trailing Carter in all...
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Results of the presidential election of 1980, won by Ronald Reagan with 489 electoral votes.
Nov 21, 2023 · The presidential election of 1980 witnessed Reagan, in a landslide, claim 489 electoral votes to Carter's 49. The popular vote was slightly closer with Reagan pulling 51% of the vote to Carter's...
- Reagan got 489 electoral votes, almost ten times more than Carter won. However, Reagan only won around fifty percent of the popular vote.
- In the primaries, Reagan ran against George H.W. Bush. In the final election, he ran against presidential incumbent Jimmy Carter.
- The main candidates in the 1980 presidential election in the United States were Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Other candidates for this election...
- Ronald Reagan's major campaign theme in 1980 was "Let's make America great again." He combined forces with George H. W. Bush, his former opponent,...
Nov 5, 1980 · The popular vote at 2 am GMT was: Carter 4,887,632, 43 per cent; Reagan 5,795,313, 51 per cent; Anderson 580,090, 5 per cent. Two leading Democratic liberals had also lost in the congressional...
Reagan's victory over the incumbent Carter was an electoral vote landslide. He tallied 489 votes to Carter's 49. The Republicans also captured a majority of the Senate for the first time since 1954.
The 1984 Election Night brought a landslide victory for President Reagan and his administration: he won the electoral vote in every state except Minnesota (Mondale's home state) and Washington,...
