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The1984 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states andthe District of Columbia, were part of the1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president of the United States.
Nebraska 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 Nebraska, with over 99% of the electorate voting for either theDemocratic orRepublican parties, and only five parties formally appearing on the ballot.[1] Reagan won a majority in all of Nebraska's counties, joining previous Republican nomineesTheodore Roosevelt in1904,Warren Harding in1920,Dwight Eisenhower in1952,Richard Nixon in1972, and himself in1980.
Nebraska weighed in for this election as 12% moreRepublican than the national average and with 70.55% of the popular vote, proved to be Reagan's third strongest state in the 1984 election afterUtah andIdaho.[2] Reagan won Nebraska by a powerful 42% margin. His 70.55% vote share in the state made it his third-best in the country, after Utah and Idaho. Nebraska continued its trend of voting in line with its sisterfree-soil and postbellumGreat Plains states (North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas); the four last disagreed in a presidential election in1916.
Reagan did well in population centers and rural areas alike, scoring almost two-thirds of the vote in the state's largest county,Douglas (home toOmaha), and getting over three-quarters of the vote in a majority of Nebraska's counties (58 of 93). Mondale's best county wasSaline, at the time the strongest traditional stronghold for the Democratic Party in the state; the county had voted Democratic in every election from1908 through1976 save 1920, 1952, and 1972. Even here, however, Mondale failed to keep Reagan's margin to single digits.
| 1984 United States presidential election in Nebraska | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Ronald Reagan (incumbent) | 460,054 | 70.55% | 5 | |
| Democratic | Walter Mondale | 187,866 | 28.81% | 0 | |
| Libertarian | David Bergland | 2,079 | 0.32% | 0 | |
| Independent | Melvin Mason | 1,066 | 0.16% | 0 | |
| Independent | Dennis Serrette | 1,025 | 0.16% | 0 | |
| Totals | 652,090 | 100.0% | 5 | ||
| County[3] | Ronald Reagan Republican | Walter Mondale Democratic | David Bergland Libertarian | Melvin Mason Independent | Dennis Serrette Independent | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 9,127 | 75.09% | 2,945 | 24.23% | 48 | 0.39% | 21 | 0.17% | 14 | 0.12% | 6,182 | 50.86% | 12,155 |
| Antelope | 3,222 | 81.80% | 697 | 17.69% | 12 | 0.30% | 4 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.10% | 2,525 | 64.11% | 3,939 |
| Arthur | 248 | 88.26% | 33 | 11.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 215 | 76.52% | 281 |
| Banner | 457 | 87.55% | 58 | 11.11% | 5 | 0.96% | 2 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 399 | 76.44% | 522 |
| Blaine | 363 | 88.32% | 48 | 11.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 315 | 76.64% | 411 |
| Boone | 2,508 | 78.01% | 690 | 21.46% | 6 | 0.19% | 8 | 0.25% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,818 | 56.55% | 3,215 |
| Box Butte | 4,011 | 72.60% | 1,471 | 26.62% | 22 | 0.40% | 7 | 0.13% | 14 | 0.25% | 2,540 | 45.98% | 5,525 |
| Boyd | 1,175 | 78.54% | 308 | 20.59% | 10 | 0.67% | 2 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.07% | 867 | 57.95% | 1,496 |
| Brown | 1,514 | 82.60% | 312 | 17.02% | 2 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.05% | 4 | 0.22% | 1,202 | 65.58% | 1,833 |
| Buffalo | 11,365 | 78.11% | 3,086 | 21.21% | 51 | 0.35% | 21 | 0.14% | 27 | 0.19% | 8,279 | 56.90% | 14,550 |
| Burt | 2,645 | 71.08% | 1,054 | 28.33% | 9 | 0.24% | 9 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,591 | 42.75% | 3,721 |
| Butler | 2,557 | 67.56% | 1,193 | 31.52% | 22 | 0.58% | 5 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.21% | 1,364 | 36.04% | 3,785 |
| Cass | 5,461 | 68.04% | 2,499 | 31.14% | 26 | 0.32% | 22 | 0.27% | 18 | 0.22% | 2,962 | 36.90% | 8,026 |
| Cedar | 3,298 | 72.71% | 1,201 | 26.48% | 21 | 0.46% | 11 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.11% | 2,097 | 46.23% | 4,536 |
| Chase | 1,697 | 80.93% | 368 | 17.55% | 21 | 1.00% | 3 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.38% | 1,329 | 63.38% | 2,097 |
| Cherry | 2,720 | 85.05% | 463 | 14.48% | 10 | 0.31% | 2 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.09% | 2,257 | 70.57% | 3,198 |
| Cheyenne | 3,159 | 77.73% | 857 | 21.09% | 28 | 0.69% | 9 | 0.22% | 11 | 0.27% | 2,302 | 56.64% | 4,064 |
| Clay | 2,920 | 77.74% | 811 | 21.59% | 9 | 0.24% | 7 | 0.19% | 9 | 0.24% | 2,109 | 56.15% | 3,756 |
| Colfax | 2,999 | 74.68% | 981 | 24.43% | 13 | 0.32% | 10 | 0.25% | 13 | 0.32% | 2,018 | 50.25% | 4,016 |
| Cuming | 3,931 | 82.93% | 779 | 16.43% | 23 | 0.49% | 4 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.06% | 3,152 | 66.50% | 4,740 |
| Custer | 4,749 | 80.94% | 1,090 | 18.58% | 8 | 0.14% | 14 | 0.24% | 6 | 0.10% | 3,659 | 62.36% | 5,867 |
| Dakota | 3,467 | 57.76% | 2,510 | 41.82% | 12 | 0.20% | 8 | 0.13% | 5 | 0.08% | 957 | 15.94% | 6,002 |
| Dawes | 3,326 | 78.59% | 865 | 20.44% | 18 | 0.43% | 12 | 0.28% | 11 | 0.26% | 2,461 | 58.15% | 4,232 |
| Dawson | 6,887 | 81.92% | 1,487 | 17.69% | 13 | 0.15% | 13 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.08% | 5,400 | 64.23% | 8,407 |
| Deuel | 962 | 82.43% | 198 | 16.97% | 7 | 0.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 764 | 65.46% | 1,167 |
| Dixon | 2,155 | 68.11% | 986 | 31.16% | 9 | 0.28% | 9 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,169 | 36.95% | 3,164 |
| Dodge | 10,201 | 70.15% | 4,266 | 29.34% | 41 | 0.28% | 15 | 0.10% | 18 | 0.12% | 5,935 | 40.81% | 14,541 |
| Douglas | 112,676 | 65.24% | 58,979 | 34.15% | 487 | 0.28% | 279 | 0.16% | 299 | 0.17% | 53,697 | 31.09% | 172,720 |
| Dundy | 992 | 80.98% | 225 | 18.37% | 5 | 0.41% | 2 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.08% | 767 | 62.61% | 1,225 |
| Fillmore | 2,474 | 70.46% | 1,009 | 28.74% | 10 | 0.28% | 14 | 0.40% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,465 | 41.72% | 3,511 |
| Franklin | 1,597 | 75.08% | 522 | 24.54% | 5 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.05% | 1,075 | 50.54% | 2,127 |
| Frontier | 1,351 | 83.55% | 258 | 15.96% | 4 | 0.25% | 3 | 0.19% | 1 | 0.06% | 1,093 | 67.59% | 1,617 |
| Furnas | 2,363 | 79.67% | 579 | 19.52% | 10 | 0.34% | 9 | 0.30% | 5 | 0.17% | 1,784 | 60.15% | 2,966 |
| Gage | 6,116 | 68.78% | 2,709 | 30.47% | 35 | 0.39% | 17 | 0.19% | 15 | 0.17% | 3,407 | 38.31% | 8,892 |
| Garden | 1,158 | 85.71% | 180 | 13.32% | 4 | 0.30% | 4 | 0.30% | 5 | 0.37% | 978 | 72.39% | 1,351 |
| Garfield | 899 | 81.43% | 196 | 17.75% | 4 | 0.36% | 3 | 0.27% | 2 | 0.18% | 703 | 63.68% | 1,104 |
| Gosper | 802 | 79.33% | 201 | 19.88% | 4 | 0.40% | 2 | 0.20% | 2 | 0.20% | 601 | 59.45% | 1,011 |
| Grant | 406 | 88.45% | 51 | 11.11% | 1 | 0.22% | 1 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 355 | 77.34% | 459 |
| Greeley | 948 | 65.74% | 485 | 33.63% | 3 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.21% | 463 | 32.11% | 1,442 |
| Hall | 13,193 | 73.47% | 4,655 | 25.92% | 46 | 0.26% | 29 | 0.16% | 33 | 0.18% | 8,538 | 47.55% | 17,956 |
| Hamilton | 3,418 | 79.77% | 842 | 19.65% | 11 | 0.26% | 9 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.12% | 2,576 | 60.12% | 4,285 |
| Harlan | 1,692 | 76.80% | 493 | 22.38% | 10 | 0.45% | 5 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.14% | 1,199 | 54.42% | 2,203 |
| Hayes | 593 | 85.45% | 101 | 14.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 492 | 70.90% | 694 |
| Hitchcock | 1,391 | 79.99% | 341 | 19.61% | 1 | 0.06% | 4 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.12% | 1,050 | 60.38% | 1,739 |
| Holt | 4,613 | 83.19% | 893 | 16.10% | 22 | 0.40% | 13 | 0.23% | 4 | 0.07% | 3,720 | 67.09% | 5,545 |
| Hooker | 433 | 87.83% | 55 | 11.16% | 1 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.61% | 1 | 0.20% | 378 | 76.67% | 493 |
| Howard | 1,899 | 67.68% | 887 | 31.61% | 12 | 0.43% | 5 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.11% | 1,012 | 36.07% | 2,806 |
| Jefferson | 3,116 | 68.89% | 1,367 | 30.22% | 19 | 0.42% | 13 | 0.29% | 8 | 0.18% | 1,749 | 38.67% | 4,523 |
| Johnson | 1,542 | 64.36% | 821 | 34.27% | 15 | 0.63% | 10 | 0.42% | 8 | 0.33% | 721 | 30.09% | 2,396 |
| Kearney | 2,508 | 76.89% | 726 | 22.26% | 18 | 0.55% | 8 | 0.25% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,782 | 54.63% | 3,262 |
| Keith | 3,433 | 84.10% | 631 | 15.46% | 12 | 0.29% | 5 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,802 | 68.64% | 4,082 |
| Keya Paha | 507 | 79.84% | 128 | 20.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 379 | 59.68% | 635 |
| Kimball | 1,734 | 83.09% | 339 | 16.24% | 3 | 0.14% | 3 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.38% | 1,395 | 66.85% | 2,087 |
| Knox | 3,364 | 73.77% | 1,149 | 25.20% | 25 | 0.55% | 15 | 0.33% | 7 | 0.15% | 2,215 | 48.57% | 4,560 |
| Lancaster | 48,778 | 59.31% | 32,898 | 40.00% | 307 | 0.37% | 122 | 0.15% | 140 | 0.17% | 15,880 | 19.31% | 82,245 |
| Lincoln | 10,717 | 70.01% | 4,509 | 29.46% | 39 | 0.25% | 24 | 0.16% | 18 | 0.12% | 6,208 | 40.55% | 15,307 |
| Logan | 446 | 86.77% | 67 | 13.04% | 1 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 379 | 73.73% | 514 |
| Loup | 323 | 79.95% | 79 | 19.55% | 1 | 0.25% | 1 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 244 | 60.40% | 404 |
| Madison | 9,790 | 84.48% | 1,757 | 15.16% | 25 | 0.22% | 5 | 0.04% | 12 | 0.10% | 8,033 | 69.32% | 11,589 |
| McPherson | 295 | 82.87% | 57 | 16.01% | 3 | 0.84% | 1 | 0.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 238 | 66.86% | 356 |
| Merrick | 2,700 | 76.14% | 818 | 23.07% | 10 | 0.28% | 11 | 0.31% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,882 | 53.07% | 3,546 |
| Morrill | 1,888 | 79.80% | 464 | 19.61% | 7 | 0.30% | 4 | 0.17% | 3 | 0.13% | 1,424 | 60.19% | 2,366 |
| Nance | 1,393 | 72.14% | 525 | 27.19% | 9 | 0.47% | 3 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.05% | 868 | 44.95% | 1,931 |
| Nemaha | 2,752 | 72.55% | 1,004 | 26.47% | 21 | 0.55% | 9 | 0.24% | 7 | 0.18% | 1,748 | 46.08% | 3,793 |
| Nuckolls | 2,132 | 68.82% | 947 | 30.57% | 10 | 0.32% | 4 | 0.13% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,185 | 38.25% | 3,098 |
| Otoe | 4,679 | 70.94% | 1,869 | 28.34% | 26 | 0.39% | 15 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,810 | 42.60% | 6,596 |
| Pawnee | 1,306 | 69.32% | 552 | 29.30% | 10 | 0.53% | 9 | 0.48% | 7 | 0.37% | 754 | 40.02% | 1,884 |
| Perkins | 1,420 | 81.80% | 307 | 17.68% | 3 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.23% | 1,113 | 64.12% | 1,736 |
| Phelps | 3,741 | 83.11% | 740 | 16.44% | 10 | 0.22% | 5 | 0.11% | 5 | 0.11% | 3,001 | 66.67% | 4,501 |
| Pierce | 3,017 | 84.06% | 545 | 15.19% | 13 | 0.36% | 9 | 0.25% | 5 | 0.14% | 2,472 | 68.87% | 3,589 |
| Platte | 10,069 | 82.38% | 2,061 | 16.86% | 53 | 0.43% | 25 | 0.20% | 14 | 0.11% | 8,008 | 65.52% | 12,222 |
| Polk | 2,149 | 77.41% | 610 | 21.97% | 8 | 0.29% | 6 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.11% | 1,539 | 55.44% | 2,776 |
| Red Willow | 4,131 | 79.69% | 1,026 | 19.79% | 11 | 0.21% | 12 | 0.23% | 4 | 0.08% | 3,105 | 59.90% | 5,184 |
| Richardson | 3,634 | 71.28% | 1,422 | 27.89% | 22 | 0.43% | 9 | 0.18% | 11 | 0.22% | 2,212 | 43.39% | 5,098 |
| Rock | 873 | 85.34% | 147 | 14.37% | 1 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.10% | 726 | 70.97% | 1,023 |
| Saline | 2,942 | 54.54% | 2,385 | 44.22% | 34 | 0.63% | 21 | 0.39% | 12 | 0.22% | 557 | 10.32% | 5,394 |
| Sarpy | 20,192 | 74.37% | 6,838 | 25.19% | 64 | 0.24% | 31 | 0.11% | 25 | 0.09% | 13,354 | 49.18% | 27,150 |
| Saunders | 5,217 | 67.34% | 2,467 | 31.84% | 34 | 0.44% | 14 | 0.18% | 15 | 0.19% | 2,750 | 35.50% | 7,747 |
| Scotts Bluff | 10,711 | 77.18% | 3,074 | 22.15% | 47 | 0.34% | 21 | 0.15% | 25 | 0.18% | 7,637 | 55.03% | 13,878 |
| Seward | 3,983 | 67.09% | 1,911 | 32.19% | 17 | 0.29% | 17 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.15% | 2,072 | 34.90% | 5,937 |
| Sheridan | 2,661 | 86.93% | 377 | 12.32% | 10 | 0.33% | 8 | 0.26% | 5 | 0.16% | 2,284 | 74.61% | 3,061 |
| Sherman | 1,144 | 61.44% | 701 | 37.65% | 6 | 0.32% | 7 | 0.38% | 4 | 0.21% | 443 | 23.79% | 1,862 |
| Sioux | 732 | 85.12% | 121 | 14.07% | 3 | 0.35% | 2 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.23% | 611 | 71.05% | 860 |
| Stanton | 2,082 | 83.01% | 411 | 16.39% | 10 | 0.40% | 4 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,671 | 66.62% | 2,508 |
| Thayer | 2,580 | 72.66% | 946 | 26.64% | 11 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.23% | 1,634 | 46.02% | 3,551 |
| Thomas | 298 | 79.68% | 73 | 19.52% | 1 | 0.27% | 1 | 0.27% | 1 | 0.27% | 225 | 60.16% | 374 |
| Thurston | 1,410 | 56.40% | 1,077 | 43.08% | 4 | 0.16% | 5 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.16% | 333 | 13.32% | 2,500 |
| Valley | 2,055 | 73.21% | 739 | 26.33% | 3 | 0.11% | 7 | 0.25% | 3 | 0.11% | 1,316 | 46.88% | 2,807 |
| Washington | 5,191 | 76.44% | 1,565 | 23.05% | 16 | 0.24% | 12 | 0.18% | 7 | 0.10% | 3,626 | 53.39% | 6,791 |
| Wayne | 3,075 | 78.13% | 833 | 21.16% | 11 | 0.28% | 9 | 0.23% | 8 | 0.20% | 2,242 | 56.97% | 3,936 |
| Webster | 1,694 | 71.93% | 645 | 27.39% | 5 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.25% | 1,049 | 44.54% | 2,355 |
| Wheeler | 365 | 78.49% | 97 | 20.86% | 3 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 268 | 57.63% | 465 |
| York | 5,147 | 82.08% | 1,124 | 17.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,023 | 64.16% | 6,271 |
| Totals | 460,054 | 70.55% | 187,866 | 28.81% | 2,079 | 0.32% | 1,066 | 0.16% | 1,025 | 0.16% | 272,188 | 41.74% | 652,090 |
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