The 1980 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Idaho was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 41-point landslide.[1] It is a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964,[2] and even Johnson won by merely five thousand votes in a national landslide. With 66.46 percent of the popular vote, Idaho would prove to be Reagan's second strongest state after neighboring Utah.[3]
Results
edit| 1980 United States presidential election in Idaho[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||||
| Republican | Ronald Reagan | 290,699 | 66.46% | 4 | ||||
| Democratic | Jimmy Carter (incumbent) | 110,192 | 25.19% | 0 | ||||
| Independent | John B. Anderson | 27,058 | 6.19% | 0 | ||||
| Libertarian | Edward Clark | 8,425 | 1.93% | 0 | ||||
| American | John Rarick | 1,057 | 0.24% | 0 | ||||
| Totals | 437,431 | 100.00% | 4 | |||||
Results by county
edit| County[5] | Ronald Reagan Republican |
Jimmy Carter Democratic |
John B. Anderson Independent |
Ed Clark Libertarian |
John Rarick American |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 55,205 | 63.79% | 21,324 | 24.64% | 7,987 | 9.23% | 1,874 | 2.17% | 154 | 0.18% | 33,881 | 39.15% | 86,544 |
| Adams | 1,189 | 62.68% | 590 | 31.10% | 88 | 4.64% | 26 | 1.37% | 4 | 0.21% | 599 | 31.58% | 1,897 |
| Bannock | 18,477 | 61.88% | 8,639 | 28.93% | 1,896 | 6.35% | 771 | 2.58% | 76 | 0.25% | 9,838 | 32.95% | 29,859 |
| Bear Lake | 2,941 | 82.45% | 508 | 14.24% | 63 | 1.77% | 45 | 1.26% | 10 | 0.28% | 2,433 | 68.21% | 3,567 |
| Benewah | 2,111 | 54.89% | 1,361 | 35.39% | 286 | 7.44% | 84 | 2.18% | 4 | 0.10% | 750 | 19.50% | 3,846 |
| Bingham | 11,781 | 76.07% | 2,933 | 18.94% | 489 | 3.16% | 264 | 1.70% | 20 | 0.13% | 8,848 | 57.13% | 15,487 |
| Blaine | 2,716 | 49.12% | 1,840 | 33.28% | 775 | 14.02% | 188 | 3.40% | 10 | 0.18% | 876 | 15.84% | 5,529 |
| Boise | 1,134 | 61.43% | 518 | 28.06% | 110 | 5.96% | 81 | 4.39% | 3 | 0.16% | 616 | 33.37% | 1,846 |
| Bonner | 6,727 | 56.34% | 4,060 | 34.00% | 880 | 7.37% | 250 | 2.09% | 23 | 0.19% | 2,667 | 22.34% | 11,940 |
| Bonneville | 24,715 | 77.55% | 5,052 | 15.85% | 1,355 | 4.25% | 683 | 2.14% | 64 | 0.20% | 19,663 | 61.70% | 31,869 |
| Boundary | 2,088 | 59.44% | 1,087 | 30.94% | 225 | 6.40% | 106 | 3.02% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,001 | 28.50% | 3,513 |
| Butte | 1,275 | 72.24% | 424 | 24.02% | 35 | 1.98% | 28 | 1.59% | 3 | 0.17% | 851 | 48.22% | 1,765 |
| Camas | 360 | 67.92% | 145 | 27.36% | 16 | 3.02% | 9 | 1.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 215 | 40.56% | 530 |
| Canyon | 24,375 | 67.68% | 9,172 | 25.47% | 1,798 | 4.99% | 601 | 1.67% | 70 | 0.19% | 15,203 | 42.21% | 36,016 |
| Caribou | 3,234 | 83.09% | 481 | 12.36% | 106 | 2.72% | 59 | 1.52% | 12 | 0.31% | 2,753 | 70.73% | 3,892 |
| Cassia | 6,511 | 78.84% | 1,369 | 16.58% | 212 | 2.57% | 80 | 0.97% | 87 | 1.05% | 5,142 | 62.26% | 8,259 |
| Clark | 379 | 78.47% | 87 | 18.01% | 11 | 2.28% | 6 | 1.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 292 | 60.46% | 483 |
| Clearwater | 2,178 | 50.49% | 1,699 | 39.38% | 291 | 6.75% | 129 | 2.99% | 17 | 0.39% | 479 | 11.11% | 4,314 |
| Custer | 1,398 | 73.50% | 398 | 20.93% | 64 | 3.36% | 40 | 2.10% | 2 | 0.11% | 1,000 | 52.57% | 1,902 |
| Elmore | 3,994 | 64.87% | 1,760 | 28.59% | 311 | 5.05% | 88 | 1.43% | 4 | 0.06% | 2,234 | 36.28% | 6,157 |
| Franklin | 3,669 | 85.31% | 511 | 11.88% | 61 | 1.42% | 54 | 1.26% | 6 | 0.14% | 3,158 | 73.43% | 4,301 |
| Fremont | 4,167 | 79.33% | 926 | 17.63% | 108 | 2.06% | 48 | 0.91% | 4 | 0.08% | 3,241 | 61.70% | 5,253 |
| Gem | 3,766 | 65.77% | 1,613 | 28.17% | 218 | 3.81% | 104 | 1.82% | 25 | 0.44% | 2,153 | 37.60% | 5,726 |
| Gooding | 3,897 | 68.43% | 1,481 | 26.01% | 218 | 3.83% | 86 | 1.51% | 13 | 0.23% | 2,416 | 42.42% | 5,695 |
| Idaho | 4,425 | 62.56% | 2,078 | 29.38% | 409 | 5.78% | 136 | 1.92% | 25 | 0.35% | 2,347 | 33.18% | 7,073 |
| Jefferson | 5,860 | 84.52% | 833 | 12.02% | 135 | 1.95% | 91 | 1.31% | 14 | 0.20% | 5,027 | 72.50% | 6,933 |
| Jerome | 4,962 | 74.90% | 1,368 | 20.65% | 178 | 2.69% | 101 | 1.52% | 16 | 0.24% | 3,594 | 54.25% | 6,625 |
| Kootenai | 17,022 | 63.25% | 7,521 | 27.95% | 1,808 | 6.72% | 476 | 1.77% | 85 | 0.32% | 9,501 | 35.30% | 26,912 |
| Latah | 6,967 | 46.78% | 5,037 | 33.82% | 2,465 | 16.55% | 389 | 2.61% | 34 | 0.23% | 1,930 | 12.96% | 14,892 |
| Lemhi | 2,646 | 71.53% | 794 | 21.47% | 167 | 4.51% | 85 | 2.30% | 7 | 0.19% | 1,852 | 50.06% | 3,699 |
| Lewis | 1,088 | 53.00% | 774 | 37.70% | 160 | 7.79% | 30 | 1.46% | 1 | 0.05% | 314 | 15.30% | 2,053 |
| Lincoln | 1,294 | 69.12% | 462 | 24.68% | 83 | 4.43% | 30 | 1.60% | 3 | 0.16% | 832 | 44.44% | 1,872 |
| Madison | 6,555 | 88.41% | 728 | 9.82% | 64 | 0.86% | 51 | 0.69% | 16 | 0.22% | 5,827 | 78.59% | 7,414 |
| Minidoka | 6,035 | 74.22% | 1,689 | 20.77% | 260 | 3.20% | 135 | 1.66% | 12 | 0.15% | 4,346 | 53.45% | 8,131 |
| Nez Perce | 7,495 | 47.61% | 6,565 | 41.70% | 1,344 | 8.54% | 314 | 1.99% | 26 | 0.17% | 930 | 5.91% | 15,744 |
| Oneida | 1,461 | 74.16% | 434 | 22.03% | 50 | 2.54% | 23 | 1.17% | 2 | 0.10% | 1,027 | 52.13% | 1,970 |
| Owyhee | 2,257 | 71.88% | 732 | 23.31% | 93 | 2.96% | 53 | 1.69% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,525 | 48.57% | 3,140 |
| Payette | 4,508 | 67.14% | 1,828 | 27.23% | 253 | 3.77% | 105 | 1.56% | 20 | 0.30% | 2,680 | 39.91% | 6,714 |
| Power | 2,235 | 71.11% | 727 | 23.13% | 119 | 3.79% | 57 | 1.81% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,508 | 47.98% | 3,143 |
| Shoshone | 3,994 | 52.04% | 3,102 | 40.42% | 407 | 5.30% | 148 | 1.93% | 24 | 0.31% | 892 | 11.62% | 7,675 |
| Teton | 1,227 | 72.78% | 360 | 21.35% | 67 | 3.97% | 28 | 1.66% | 4 | 0.24% | 867 | 51.43% | 1,686 |
| Twin Falls | 17,425 | 73.50% | 4,835 | 20.39% | 976 | 4.12% | 344 | 1.45% | 128 | 0.54% | 12,590 | 53.11% | 23,708 |
| Valley | 2,041 | 62.38% | 926 | 28.30% | 245 | 7.49% | 58 | 1.77% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,115 | 34.08% | 3,272 |
| Washington | 2,915 | 63.58% | 1,421 | 30.99% | 172 | 3.75% | 67 | 1.46% | 10 | 0.22% | 1,494 | 32.59% | 4,585 |
| Totals | 290,699 | 66.46% | 110,192 | 25.19% | 27,058 | 6.19% | 8,425 | 1.93% | 1,057 | 0.24% | 180,507 | 41.27% | 437,431 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "1980 Presidential General Election Results - Idaho". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "A super guide for Super Tuesday". CNN. February 4, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "1980 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "1980 Presidential General Election Results – Idaho". Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ Our Campaigns; ID US President, November 04, 1980