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The1980 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states andThe District of Columbia were part of the1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose six electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Oregon had voted in1976 for incumbent PresidentGerald Ford over challenger Carter in the previous election by an extremely narrow margin of just 1,713 votes, but had beenGeorge McGovern’s sixth-strongest state during his1972 2,900-plus-county landslide loss.
Both Carter and Reagan won theDemocratic andRepublican presidential primaries held during the third week of May 1980.[1] In August early in Carter's campaign, he targeted Oregon as a state he might win despite having supported only one Democrat since1944,[2] on the basis that independent candidate and Reagan primary rivalJohn B. Anderson would split the GOP vote.[3]
The last week of September saw all three leading candidates visit Oregon,[4] and at the end of the month Reagan was shown as ahead by around five percentage points,[4] after having been in the lead in Oregon ever since the first polls were taken in mid-September.[5]
October saw Vice-PresidentWalter Mondale doing extensive campaigning in the state,[6] and with polls showing Anderson winning over fifteen percent of the state's ballots and strong support for theEqual Rights Amendment opposed by Reagan,[6] the Democrats possessed substantial hope in the state. By the last week of October, Carter's spokesmen were confident they could crack a state whose loss four years previously they attributed to the presence ofEugene McCarthy on the ballot,[7] but in the days before the poll sample votes swung towards Reagan again.[8]
Oregon was ultimately won by formerCalifornia GovernorRonald Reagan (R) by 9.66%.[9] Reagan dominated in the conservative, populisteastern interior andRogue Valley, where he won a majority in every county, and Carter, despite carrying four counties, did not win a majority in any due to a strong vote west of the Cascades for Anderson, who reached double figures in all Willamette Valley counties exceptColumbia andLinn. This was the first time the Republicans had carriedCoos County sinceDwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.[10] As of the2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in whichLane County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[11]
| Candidate | Votes | Delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Carter(incumbent) | 208,693 | 26 |
| Ted Kennedy | 114,651 | 14 |
| Jerry Brown | 34,409 | 0 |
| Others | 10,569 | 0 |
| Totals | 368,322 | 40 |
| Candidate | Votes | Delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Ronald Reagan | 170,449 | 17 |
| George H.W. Bush | 109,210 | 11 |
| John Anderson | 32,118 | 0 |
| Others | 2,324 | 0 |
| Totals | 314,101 | 31 |
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Ronald Reagan | Republican | California | 571,044 | 48.33% | 6 | George H.W. Bush | Texas | 6 |
| Jimmy Carter (incumbent) | Democratic | Georgia | 456,890 | 38.67% | 0 | Walter Mondale (incumbent) | Minnesota | 0 |
| John B. Anderson | Independent | Illinois | 112,389 | 9.51% | 0 | Patrick Lucey | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Ed Clark | Libertarian | California | 25,838 | 2.19% | 0 | David Koch | New York | 0 |
| Barry Commoner | Independent | New York | 13,642 | 1.15% | 0 | LaDonna Harris | Oklahoma | 0 |
| Write-ins | — | — | 1,713 | 0.14% | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| Total | 1,181,516 | 100% | 7 | 7 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
| County | Ronald Reagan Republican | Jimmy Carter Democratic | John B. Anderson Independent | Ed Clark Libertarian | Barry Commoner[12] Independent | Various candidates Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Baker | 4,747 | 59.24% | 2,515 | 31.39% | 487 | 6.08% | 208 | 2.60% | 56 | 0.70% | 2,232 | 27.85% | 8,013 | ||
| Benton | 14,982 | 43.42% | 13,150 | 38.11% | 4,950 | 14.34% | 709 | 2.05% | 648 | 1.88% | 68 | 0.20% | 1,832 | 5.31% | 34,507 |
| Clackamas | 54,111 | 49.42% | 40,462 | 36.96% | 11,386 | 10.40% | 2,676 | 2.44% | 733 | 0.67% | 115 | 0.11% | 13,649 | 12.46% | 109,483 |
| Clatsop | 6,124 | 40.94% | 6,482 | 43.33% | 1,854 | 12.39% | 303 | 2.02% | 182 | 1.22% | 24 | 0.16% | -358 | -2.39% | 14,959 |
| Columbia | 6,623 | 42.72% | 7,124 | 45.95% | 1,158 | 7.47% | 486 | 3.13% | 77 | 0.50% | 37 | 0.24% | -501 | -3.23% | 15,505 |
| Coos | 13,041 | 46.28% | 11,817 | 41.94% | 2,428 | 8.62% | 636 | 2.26% | 218 | 0.77% | 36 | 0.13% | 1,224 | 4.34% | 28,176 |
| Crook | 3,113 | 53.10% | 2,162 | 36.88% | 435 | 7.42% | 109 | 1.86% | 30 | 0.51% | 13 | 0.22% | 951 | 16.22% | 5,862 |
| Curry | 4,910 | 57.85% | 2,656 | 31.29% | 652 | 7.68% | 185 | 2.18% | 74 | 0.87% | 11 | 0.13% | 2,254 | 26.56% | 8,488 |
| Deschutes | 15,186 | 52.89% | 9,641 | 33.57% | 2,909 | 10.13% | 691 | 2.41% | 258 | 0.90% | 30 | 0.10% | 5,545 | 19.32% | 28,715 |
| Douglas | 23,101 | 58.46% | 12,564 | 31.79% | 2,529 | 6.40% | 947 | 2.40% | 330 | 0.84% | 45 | 0.11% | 10,537 | 26.67% | 39,516 |
| Gilliam | 622 | 54.56% | 394 | 34.56% | 85 | 7.46% | 28 | 2.46% | 8 | 0.70% | 3 | 0.26% | 228 | 20.00% | 1,140 |
| Grant | 2,519 | 60.16% | 1,274 | 30.43% | 273 | 6.52% | 96 | 2.29% | 25 | 0.60% | 1,245 | 29.73% | 4,187 | ||
| Harney | 2,313 | 61.11% | 1,110 | 29.33% | 255 | 6.74% | 85 | 2.25% | 18 | 0.48% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,203 | 31.78% | 3,785 |
| Hood River | 3,450 | 48.65% | 2,924 | 41.23% | 530 | 7.47% | 133 | 1.88% | 53 | 0.75% | 2 | 0.03% | 526 | 7.42% | 7,092 |
| Jackson | 32,879 | 55.97% | 19,903 | 33.88% | 4,019 | 6.84% | 1,219 | 2.08% | 624 | 1.06% | 96 | 0.16% | 12,976 | 22.09% | 58,740 |
| Jefferson | 2,523 | 53.26% | 1,654 | 34.92% | 431 | 9.10% | 95 | 2.01% | 30 | 0.63% | 4 | 0.08% | 869 | 18.34% | 4,737 |
| Josephine | 16,827 | 63.89% | 7,116 | 27.02% | 1,401 | 5.32% | 718 | 2.73% | 239 | 0.91% | 35 | 0.13% | 9,711 | 36.87% | 26,336 |
| Klamath | 16,060 | 62.75% | 7,371 | 28.80% | 1,427 | 5.58% | 598 | 2.34% | 114 | 0.45% | 22 | 0.09% | 8,689 | 33.95% | 25,592 |
| Lake | 2,234 | 60.56% | 1,147 | 31.09% | 201 | 5.45% | 95 | 2.58% | 12 | 0.33% | 1,087 | 29.47% | 3,689 | ||
| Lane | 54,750 | 43.59% | 52,240 | 41.59% | 12,076 | 9.61% | 2,311 | 1.84% | 4,024 | 3.20% | 203 | 0.16% | 2,510 | 2.00% | 125,604 |
| Lincoln | 7,637 | 44.59% | 7,009 | 40.92% | 1,637 | 9.56% | 559 | 3.26% | 273 | 1.59% | 12 | 0.07% | 628 | 3.67% | 17,127 |
| Linn | 18,943 | 52.19% | 13,516 | 37.24% | 2,823 | 7.78% | 777 | 2.14% | 189 | 0.52% | 45 | 0.12% | 5,427 | 14.95% | 36,293 |
| Malheur | 7,705 | 67.80% | 2,937 | 25.84% | 472 | 4.15% | 224 | 1.97% | 20 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.05% | 4,768 | 41.96% | 11,364 |
| Marion | 42,191 | 49.38% | 32,134 | 37.61% | 8,755 | 10.25% | 1,677 | 1.96% | 592 | 0.69% | 100 | 0.12% | 10,057 | 11.77% | 85,449 |
| Morrow | 1,728 | 55.01% | 1,077 | 34.29% | 239 | 7.61% | 86 | 2.74% | 11 | 0.35% | 651 | 20.72% | 3,141 | ||
| Multnomah | 101,606 | 39.23% | 120,487 | 46.53% | 27,572 | 10.65% | 5,320 | 2.05% | 3,428 | 1.32% | 555 | 0.21% | -18,881 | -7.30% | 258,968 |
| Polk | 10,006 | 48.74% | 7,833 | 38.15% | 2,026 | 9.87% | 455 | 2.22% | 173 | 0.84% | 38 | 0.19% | 2,173 | 10.59% | 20,531 |
| Sherman | 677 | 57.86% | 389 | 33.25% | 62 | 5.30% | 29 | 2.48% | 10 | 0.85% | 3 | 0.26% | 288 | 24.61% | 1,170 |
| Tillamook | 4,123 | 41.63% | 4,521 | 45.65% | 931 | 9.40% | 212 | 2.14% | 100 | 1.01% | 16 | 0.16% | -398 | -4.02% | 9,903 |
| Umatilla | 12,950 | 57.78% | 7,382 | 32.93% | 1,531 | 6.83% | 450 | 2.01% | 80 | 0.36% | 21 | 0.09% | 5,568 | 24.85% | 22,414 |
| Union | 6,514 | 57.79% | 3,677 | 32.62% | 763 | 6.77% | 239 | 2.12% | 71 | 0.63% | 8 | 0.07% | 2,837 | 25.17% | 11,272 |
| Wallowa | 2,485 | 65.53% | 995 | 26.24% | 216 | 5.70% | 68 | 1.79% | 23 | 0.61% | 5 | 0.13% | 1,490 | 39.29% | 3,792 |
| Wasco | 4,703 | 45.95% | 4,336 | 42.36% | 819 | 8.00% | 245 | 2.39% | 126 | 1.23% | 6 | 0.06% | 367 | 3.59% | 10,235 |
| Washington | 57,165 | 51.34% | 37,915 | 34.05% | 13,076 | 11.74% | 2,498 | 2.24% | 578 | 0.52% | 123 | 0.11% | 19,250 | 17.29% | 111,355 |
| Wheeler | 442 | 54.70% | 282 | 34.90% | 62 | 7.67% | 13 | 1.61% | 7 | 0.87% | 2 | 0.25% | 160 | 19.80% | 808 |
| Yamhill | 12,054 | 51.15% | 8,694 | 36.89% | 1,919 | 8.14% | 658 | 2.79% | 218 | 0.92% | 25 | 0.11% | 3,360 | 14.26% | 23,568 |
| Totals | 571,044 | 48.33% | 456,890 | 38.67% | 112,389 | 9.51% | 25,838 | 2.19% | 13,642 | 1.15% | 1,713 | 0.14% | 114,154 | 9.66% | 1,181,516 |
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