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Reagan won re-election in a landslide victory, carrying 525 electoral votes, 49 states, and 58.8% of the popular vote. Mondale won 13 electoral votes: 10 from his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a narrow margin of 0.18% (3,761 votes), and 3 from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ...
Ronald Reagan and running mate George H. W. Bush defeated the Carter-Mondale ticket by almost 10 percentage points in the popular vote. The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing six states and Washington, D.C.).
Republicans won a landslide victory in the presidential election, picked up seats in the House of Representatives, and successfully defended their Senate majority. [1] [2] Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan won re-election, defeating Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale. [3]
Reagan ran with incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, while Mondale's running mate was Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro of New York. On election day, Reagan won 51.22% of the vote in the state to Mondale's 48.43%, a margin of 2.79%. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960.
The map of the Electoral College in 1964 shows the scale of Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1972 shows the scale of Richard Nixon's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1984 shows the scale of Ronald Reagan's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1996 shows the scale ...
Reagan won Connecticut by a 22% margin and with slightly over 60% of the vote, making it 3.7% more Republican than the nation overall amid his national landslide. Since 1896 , Connecticut had generally leaned Republican, voting for losing Republican candidates in 1916 , 1932 , 1948 , and 1976 (but also voting for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and for ...
California voted for the Republican incumbent and former California Governor, Ronald Reagan, in a landslide over the Democratic challenger, former Minnesota Senator and Vice President Walter Mondale. Reagan easily won his home state with a comfortable 16.24% margin and carried all but five counties.
Reagan carried Texas by a landslide margin of 27.5%; his 63.61% vote share made it his thirteenth-best state, and his second-best amongst states of the Old Confederacy, states that had voted for Carter in 1976, and states with at least 10 electoral votes (in each case, after Florida).