1980 United States presidential election in Utah

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1980 United States presidential election in Utah
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  1976 November 4, 1980 1984  
  Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg Carter cropped.jpg John B. Anderson in New Jersey (cropped).jpg
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 vote400
Popular vote439,687124,26630,284
Percentage72.77%20.57%5.01%

Utah Presidential Election Results 1980.svg
County Results
Reagan
  40-50%
  60-70%
  70-80%
  80-90%

The 1980 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

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Utah was won by former Governor of California Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee, who was running against incumbent President and former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee. Reagan ran with former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Carter ran with Walter Mondale, incumbent vice president and former senator from Minnesota. Reagan won the election nationally by a landslide.

Utah weighed in as the most Republican state in the nation in this election. [1] Carter's share of the popular vote remains the worst ever by a Democrat in Utah. Reagan won Carbon County by a mere three votes, but easily beat Carter throughout the rest of the state, who was widely criticized for his inability to understand issues specific to the West (especially water development). [2] Carter’s next best county was Tooele where Reagan obtained 62.03 percent of the vote; Reagan surpassed three-quarters of the vote in seventeen of twenty-nine counties. In spite of Reagan's massive victory in the state, incumbent Democratic governor Scott M. Matheson was comfortably re-elected in the concurrent gubernatorial election - the last time a Democrat has won the Utah governorship to date.

Liberal Republican John B. Anderson ran as an independent candidate with some success in the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest, Colorado [3] and some college towns; [4] however in largely conservative, Mormon Utah, Anderson possessed less appeal, getting 5.01 percent of the vote statewide, and could not exceed 9.42 percent of the vote in any county. Anderson polled a mere three votes and 0.42 percent of the vote in Piute County, and a very low 1.47 percent of the vote out of over 86,000 votes cast in the second most populated county in the state, Utah County.

Results

1980 United States presidential election in Utah [5]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Ronald Reagan 439,68772.77%4
Democratic Jimmy Carter 124,26620.57%0
Independent John B. Anderson 30,2845.01%0
Libertarian Edward Clark 7,2261.20%0
Citizen's Party Barry Commoner 1,0090.17%0
American Party Percy Greaves Jr. 9650.16%0
American Independent John Rarick 5220.09%0
Communist Party Gus Hall 1390.02%0
Socialist Workers Party Clifton DeBerry 1240.02%0
Totals604,182100.0%4

Results by county

County [6] Ronald Reagan
Republican
Jimmy Carter
Democratic
John B. Anderson
Independent
Ed Clark
Libertarian
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Beaver 1,47768.47%62128.79%431.99%130.60%30.14%85639.68%2,157
Box Elder 12,50082.72%2,14214.18%3062.03%1250.83%380.25%10,35868.54%15,111
Cache 20,25178.69%3,63914.14%1,4945.81%2230.87%1280.50%16,61264.55%25,735
Carbon 4,32047.67%4,31747.63%3093.41%1041.15%130.14%30.04%9,063
Daggett 29069.88%10926.27%102.41%61.45%00.00%18143.61%415
Davis 45,69578.98%9,06515.67%2,2533.89%6771.17%1690.29%36,63063.31%57,859
Duchesne 3,82779.41%85417.72%871.81%130.27%380.79%2,97361.69%4,819
Emery 3,07667.18%1,31528.72%901.97%761.66%220.48%1,76138.46%4,579
Garfield 1,57878.31%37518.61%502.48%90.45%30.15%1,20359.70%2,015
Grand 2,36270.42%70320.96%2056.11%601.79%240.72%1,65949.46%3,354
Iron 6,20779.54%1,24215.91%2403.08%831.06%320.41%4,96563.63%7,804
Juab 1,87269.31%72026.66%511.89%501.85%80.30%1,15242.65%2,701
Kane 1,49281.35%25613.96%593.22%201.09%70.38%1,23667.39%1,834
Millard 3,62079.79%79517.52%721.59%370.82%130.29%2,82562.27%4,537
Morgan 1,98581.52%37315.32%421.72%281.15%70.29%1,61266.20%2,435
Piute 55176.63%15721.84%30.42%60.83%20.28%39454.79%719
Rich 76281.15%14315.23%181.92%131.38%30.32%61965.92%939
Salt Lake 169,41167.00%58,47223.13%19,5477.73%3,8811.53%1,5240.60%110,93943.87%252,835
San Juan 2,77476.00%76320.90%721.97%180.49%230.63%2,01155.10%3,650
Sanpete 5,14377.76%1,26019.05%1121.69%630.95%360.54%3,88358.71%6,614
Sevier 5,61480.79%1,11216.00%1171.68%540.78%520.75%4,50264.79%6,949
Summit 3,33065.38%1,18423.25%4809.42%791.55%200.39%2,14642.13%5,093
Tooele 6,02462.03%3,13232.25%3914.03%1331.37%320.33%2,89229.78%9,712
Uintah 6,04582.45%1,04914.31%1552.11%670.91%160.22%4,99668.14%7,332
Utah 71,85983.44%12,16614.13%1,2641.47%5890.68%2430.28%59,69369.31%86,121
Wasatch 2,79970.93%99425.19%1132.86%320.81%80.20%1,80545.74%3,946
Washington 10,18183.47%1,67813.76%1851.52%870.71%660.54%8,50369.71%12,197
Wayne 83576.05%22620.58%151.37%181.64%40.36%60955.47%1,098
Weber 43,80769.98%15,40424.61%2,5014.00%6621.06%2250.36%28,40345.37%62,599
Totals439,68772.77%124,26620.57%30,2845.01%7,2261.20%2,7590.46%315,42152.20%604,222

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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