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The national election was ultimately won by Reagan with 50.75 percent of the vote. [17] In this election, Virginia voted 2.98 points to the right of the nation at-large. As of the 2020 presidential election [update] , this is the last occasion when Franklin County , Isle of Wight County , Craig County , Louisa County and Pulaski County have ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Virginia, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Virginia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864 during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the election of 1868, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
This election was the last time a Republican won the presidency without winning Georgia. It was the first time Massachusetts voted for a Republican candidate since 1956. 1980 is one of only two occurrences of pairs of consecutive elections seeing the incumbent presidents defeated, the other happening in 1892 .
The 1980 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4. Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. Republicans picked up seats in both chambers of Congress and won control of the Senate , though Democrats retained a majority in the House of Representatives .
The final CBS-New York Times poll before the 1980 election estimated Reagan’s lead at 1 percentage point. The final Washington Post poll indicated Carter was ahead by 4 points.
The 1980 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 4, 1980, to elect members to serve in the 97th United States Congress. They coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan as president, defeating Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1980 Virginia elections (3 P) 1981 Virginia elections (3 P) 1982 Virginia elections (3 P) 1983 Virginia elections (1 P) ... 1989 Virginia elections (4 P)
From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to 14, 1980, in New York City.