Statistics
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Ronald Wilson Reagan | Republican | California | 43,903,230 | 50.75% | 489 | George Herbert Walker Bush | Texas | 489 |
| James Earl Carter, Jr. | Democratic | Georgia | 35,480,115 | 41.01% | 49 | Walter Frederick Mondale | Minnesota | 49 |
| John Bayard Anderson | Independent | Illinois | 5,719,850 | 6.61% | 0 | Patrick Joseph Lucey | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Ed Clark | Libertarian | California | 921,128 | 1.06% | 0 | David H. Koch | Kansas | 0 |
| Barry Commoner | Citizens | Missouri | 233,052 | 0.27% | 0 | La Donna Harris | Oklahoma | 0 |
| Gus Hall | Communist | New York | 44,933 | 0.05% | 0 | Angela Davis | California | 0 |
| John Rarick | American Independent | Louisiana | 40,906 | 0.05% | 0 | Eileen Shearer | California | 0 |
| Clifton DeBerry | Socialist Workers | California | 38,738 | 0.04% | 0 | Matilde Zimmermann | New York | 0 |
| Ellen McCormack | Right to Life | New York | 32,320 | 0.04% | 0 | Carroll Driscoll | New Jersey | 0 |
| Maureen Smith | Peace and Freedom | California | 18,116 | 0.02% | 0 | Elizabeth Barron | California | 0 |
| Other | 77,290 | 0.09% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 86,509,678 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1980 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005).
Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005).
| Popular vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reagan | 50.75% | |||
| Carter | 41.01% | |||
| Anderson | 6.61% | |||
| Clark | 1.06% | |||
| Others | 0.56% | |||
| Electoral vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reagan | 90.89% | |||
| Carter | 9.11% | |||
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Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
Read more about this topic: List Of 1980 Swing States
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