1984 United States presidential election in Maine

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Nominee Ronald Reagan Walter Mondale Party Republican Democratic Home state California Minnesota Running mate George H. W. Bush Geraldine Ferraro Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 336,500 214,515 Percentage 60.83% 38.78%

County Results Congressional District Results Municipality Results Reagan   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Mondale   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Tie

President before election Ronald Reagan Republican Elected President Ronald Reagan Republican

The1984 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1984. All fifty states andthe District of Columbia, were part of the1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president of the United States.Maine was won by incumbent United StatesPresidentRonald Reagan ofCalifornia, who was running against formerVice PresidentWalter Mondale ofMinnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with formerC.I.A. DirectorGeorge H. W. Bush ofTexas, and Mondale ran withRepresentativeGeraldine Ferraro ofNew York, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency.

The presidential election of 1984 was a verypartisan election for Maine, with more than 99% of the electorate voting eitherDemocratic orRepublican, and only four parties appearing on the ballot.^[1] Everycounty in Maine voted for Reagan by a double-digit margin, a strong performance in a historically Republican-leaning state that had trended Democratic since the 1960s. Reagan became the first Republican to win industrialized, CatholicFrench-CanadianAndroscoggin County sinceDwight D. Eisenhower in1956.^[2]

Even amidst a national Republican landslide, Maine weighed in as almost 4% more Republican than the national average. This election marked something of a high water mark for Republicans in Maine; no candidate of either party has since come close to Reagan's vote share or margin, and the state at-large has subsequently only voted Republican once more (in the following election of1988).

Reagan won both of Maine's congressional districts.^[3]

• Androscoggin
• Cumberland

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