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The1984 United States presidential election in Oregon was held on November 6, 1984. All fifty states andthe District of Columbia were part of the1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president of the United States.
Oregon was won by incumbent United StatesPresidentRonald Reagan ofCalifornia, who was running against formerVice PresidentWalter Mondale ofMinnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with incumbentVice President and 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 Oregon, with theDemocratic orRepublican parties the only parties appearing on the ballot.[1] The vast majority of counties turned out for Reagan, including the easterninterior and southwesternRogue Valley. The only exceptions were Lane County in the central west, which had voted Republican in 1980, and three counties along the lowerColumbia River, includingPortland's highly populatedMultnomah County, which has been a Democratic stronghold since last voting for RepublicanRichard Nixon in1960.[2]
| 1984 United States presidential election in Oregon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Ronald Reagan(incumbent) | 685,700 | 55.91% | 7 | |
| Democratic | Walter Mondale | 536,479 | 43.74% | 0 | |
| Write-Ins | 4,348 | 0.35% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1,226,527 | 100.0% | 7 | ||
| County | Ronald Reagan Republican | Walter Mondale Democratic | Various candidates Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Baker | 5,204 | 66.62% | 2,591 | 33.17% | 17 | 0.22% | 2,613 | 33.45% | 7,812 |
| Benton | 17,836 | 52.36% | 16,073 | 47.19% | 153 | 0.45% | 1,763 | 5.17% | 34,062 |
| Clackamas | 68,630 | 59.08% | 47,254 | 40.68% | 289 | 0.25% | 21,376 | 18.40% | 116,173 |
| Clatsop | 7,522 | 49.86% | 7,525 | 49.88% | 38 | 0.25% | -3 | -0.02% | 15,085 |
| Columbia | 7,811 | 48.50% | 8,219 | 51.03% | 75 | 0.47% | -408 | -2.53% | 16,105 |
| Coos | 13,637 | 49.88% | 13,582 | 49.68% | 120 | 0.44% | 55 | 0.20% | 27,339 |
| Crook | 3,773 | 62.22% | 2,268 | 37.40% | 23 | 0.38% | 1,505 | 24.82% | 6,064 |
| Curry | 5,363 | 60.84% | 3,423 | 38.83% | 29 | 0.33% | 1,940 | 22.01% | 8,815 |
| Deschutes | 19,323 | 62.20% | 11,671 | 37.57% | 72 | 0.23% | 7,652 | 24.63% | 31,066 |
| Douglas | 25,243 | 63.11% | 14,609 | 36.53% | 144 | 0.36% | 10,634 | 26.58% | 39,996 |
| Gilliam | 700 | 65.24% | 369 | 34.39% | 4 | 0.37% | 331 | 30.85% | 1,073 |
| Grant | 2,695 | 66.69% | 1,344 | 33.26% | 2 | 0.05% | 1,351 | 33.43% | 4,041 |
| Harney | 2,197 | 62.56% | 1,290 | 36.73% | 25 | 0.71% | 907 | 25.83% | 3,512 |
| Hood River | 4,531 | 59.85% | 3,022 | 39.92% | 18 | 0.24% | 1,509 | 19.93% | 7,571 |
| Jackson | 37,895 | 61.76% | 23,230 | 37.86% | 234 | 0.38% | 14,665 | 23.90% | 61,359 |
| Jefferson | 3,283 | 62.94% | 1,920 | 36.81% | 13 | 0.25% | 1,363 | 26.13% | 5,216 |
| Josephine | 19,470 | 69.38% | 8,539 | 30.43% | 53 | 0.19% | 10,931 | 38.95% | 28,062 |
| Klamath | 17,686 | 69.81% | 7,575 | 29.90% | 74 | 0.29% | 10,111 | 39.91% | 25,335 |
| Lake | 2,466 | 67.51% | 1,184 | 32.41% | 3 | 0.08% | 1,282 | 35.10% | 3,653 |
| Lane | 61,493 | 48.86% | 63,999 | 50.85% | 360 | 0.29% | -2,506 | -1.99% | 125,852 |
| Lincoln | 9,110 | 51.17% | 8,637 | 48.51% | 57 | 0.32% | 473 | 2.66% | 17,804 |
| Linn | 23,463 | 59.10% | 16,161 | 40.71% | 75 | 0.19% | 7,302 | 18.39% | 39,699 |
| Malheur | 8,441 | 76.24% | 2,611 | 23.58% | 19 | 0.17% | 5,830 | 52.66% | 11,071 |
| Marion | 54,535 | 59.79% | 36,440 | 39.95% | 234 | 0.26% | 18,095 | 19.84% | 91,209 |
| Morrow | 2,130 | 62.70% | 1,254 | 36.91% | 13 | 0.38% | 876 | 25.79% | 3,397 |
| Multnomah | 119,932 | 45.17% | 144,179 | 54.30% | 1,428 | 0.54% | -24,247 | -9.13% | 265,539 |
| Polk | 12,678 | 59.15% | 8,709 | 40.64% | 45 | 0.21% | 3,969 | 18.51% | 21,432 |
| Sherman | 828 | 67.48% | 398 | 32.44% | 1 | 0.08% | 430 | 35.04% | 1,227 |
| Tillamook | 5,267 | 51.10% | 4,988 | 48.39% | 53 | 0.51% | 279 | 2.71% | 10,308 |
| Umatilla | 14,211 | 63.12% | 8,246 | 36.63% | 57 | 0.25% | 5,965 | 26.49% | 22,514 |
| Union | 6,645 | 61.36% | 4,134 | 38.18% | 50 | 0.46% | 2,511 | 23.18% | 10,829 |
| Wallowa | 2,619 | 68.36% | 1,204 | 31.43% | 8 | 0.21% | 1,415 | 36.93% | 3,831 |
| Wasco | 6,905 | 55.36% | 5,526 | 44.31% | 41 | 0.33% | 1,379 | 11.05% | 12,472 |
| Washington | 75,877 | 62.76% | 44,602 | 36.89% | 417 | 0.34% | 31,275 | 25.87% | 120,896 |
| Wheeler | 504 | 66.58% | 253 | 33.42% | 251 | 33.16% | 757 | ||
| Yamhill | 15,797 | 62.31% | 9,450 | 37.28% | 104 | 0.41% | 6,347 | 25.03% | 25,351 |
| Totals | 685,700 | 55.91% | 536,479 | 43.74% | 4,348 | 0.35% | 149,221 | 12.17% | 1,226,527 |
Oregon weighed in for this election as 3% moreDemocratic than the national average. As of the2024 presidential election, it is the last time Oregon has voted for a Republican in a presidential election, and also the last timeLincoln County,Benton County andHood River County have voted for a Republican presidential nominee. It also marks the last time any presidential candidate won Oregon while carrying the majority of its counties. Lane County among a handful of counties nationwide that flipped against Reagan after voting for him in 1980;[a].[2]
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