1980 United States presidential election in Idaho

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.

1980 United States presidential election in Idaho

November 4, 1980
 
Nominee Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter John B. Anderson
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Home state California Georgia Illinois
Running mate George H. W. Bush Walter Mondale Patrick Lucey
Electoral vote 4 0 0
Popular vote 290,699 110,192 27,058
Percentage 66.46% 25.19% 6.19%

County Results
Reagan
  40-50%
  50-60%
  60-70%
  70-80%
  80-90%


President before election

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Idaho was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 41-point landslide. It is a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, 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.

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