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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Indiana

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Indiana in 1980, 56.0% to 37.7%, a margin of 18.4 points and 411,459 votes.

Indiana voted 8.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+9.7.

The Republican hold continued from 1976, when Gerald Ford won.

Republicans led in 87 of the 92 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Marion, cast 314,269 votes and went to the Republican by 13.5 points. The closest was Pike, where 3 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ronald Reagan won Republican 1,255,656 56.0%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 844,197 37.7%
All other candidates 142,180 6.3%
Total2,242,033

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Marion 126,103 40.1% 168,680 53.7% 19,486 314,269 R+13.5
Lake 101,145 48.8% 95,408 46.0% 10,786 207,339 D+2.8
Allen 37,765 31.8% 68,524 57.6% 12,609 118,898 R+25.9
St. Joseph 44,218 42.9% 50,607 49.1% 8,289 103,114 R+6.2
Vanderburgh 29,930 42.2% 36,248 51.1% 4,804 70,982 R+8.9
Madison 23,554 37.9% 35,582 57.3% 2,956 62,092 R+19.4
Delaware 20,923 39.7% 28,342 53.8% 3,382 52,647 R+14.1
Elkhart 14,883 30.4% 30,081 61.4% 4,030 48,994 R+31.0
Tippecanoe 14,636 30.2% 27,589 56.9% 6,245 48,470 R+26.7
Porter 12,869 27.5% 30,055 64.2% 3,892 46,816 R+36.7
Vigo 19,261 41.4% 24,133 51.9% 3,133 46,527 R+10.5
La Porte 15,387 38.0% 22,424 55.3% 2,727 40,538 R+17.4
Monroe 13,316 36.1% 18,233 49.4% 5,345 36,894 R+13.3
Howard 12,916 36.0% 21,272 59.2% 1,722 35,910 R+23.3
Hamilton 7,036 19.9% 26,218 74.2% 2,073 35,327 R+54.3
Clark 14,137 45.3% 15,508 49.7% 1,536 31,181 R+4.4
Grant 10,390 33.6% 19,078 61.7% 1,441 30,909 R+28.1
Johnson 8,445 28.0% 20,018 66.3% 1,711 30,174 R+38.4
Hendricks 7,412 26.4% 19,366 68.9% 1,339 28,117 R+42.5
Wayne 9,599 34.2% 16,981 60.5% 1,472 28,052 R+26.3
Bartholomew 9,260 34.3% 15,801 58.6% 1,913 26,974 R+24.2
Floyd 11,543 45.3% 12,456 48.9% 1,468 25,467 R+3.6
Kosciusko 5,684 25.0% 15,633 68.8% 1,413 22,730 R+43.8
Henry 7,626 36.0% 12,724 60.0% 846 21,196 R+24.1
Morgan 5,439 28.0% 13,321 68.5% 678 19,438 R+40.5
Knox 7,829 41.6% 10,083 53.6% 910 18,822 R+12.0
Cass 5,838 31.9% 11,500 62.9% 936 18,274 R+31.0
Hancock 5,124 28.3% 12,093 66.7% 921 18,138 R+38.4
Lawrence 5,826 33.7% 10,846 62.7% 624 17,296 R+29.0
Shelby 5,861 34.2% 10,496 61.2% 793 17,150 R+27.0
Warrick 6,845 41.3% 8,681 52.4% 1,044 16,570 R+11.1
Marshall 5,113 31.2% 10,209 62.2% 1,089 16,411 R+31.1
Jackson 6,425 40.3% 8,903 55.8% 614 15,942 R+15.5
Huntington 5,415 34.0% 9,497 59.6% 1,025 15,937 R+25.6
Boone 4,535 28.6% 10,484 66.1% 840 15,859 R+37.5
Gibson 6,834 45.0% 7,643 50.3% 712 15,189 R+5.3
Montgomery 4,158 27.9% 9,936 66.6% 823 14,917 R+38.7
Wabash 4,620 32.2% 8,738 60.8% 1,010 14,368 R+28.7
Miami 4,927 34.4% 8,672 60.6% 705 14,304 R+26.2
Dubois 6,700 46.9% 6,775 47.5% 801 14,276 R+0.5
Greene 6,027 42.8% 7,452 52.9% 619 14,098 R+10.1
Clinton 5,258 37.7% 8,158 58.4% 546 13,962 R+20.8
De Kalb 4,911 35.2% 7,886 56.5% 1,153 13,950 R+21.3
Noble 4,721 35.5% 7,624 57.4% 937 13,282 R+21.9
Dearborn 5,135 38.8% 7,467 56.4% 647 13,249 R+17.6
Jefferson 5,496 42.0% 6,831 52.2% 760 13,087 R+10.2
Whitley 4,497 35.1% 7,146 55.7% 1,178 12,821 R+20.7
Randolph 4,025 32.5% 7,762 62.6% 603 12,390 R+30.2
Adams 4,673 39.0% 6,368 53.2% 937 11,978 R+14.2
Clay 4,363 36.9% 6,980 59.1% 469 11,812 R+22.2
Putnam 3,996 34.0% 7,090 60.4% 662 11,748 R+26.3
Harrison 4,865 42.0% 6,287 54.2% 442 11,594 R+12.3
Daviess 4,057 35.2% 7,022 60.9% 453 11,532 R+25.7
Posey 4,465 39.3% 6,096 53.7% 793 11,354 R+14.4
White 3,247 29.9% 6,999 64.5% 609 10,855 R+34.6
Fayette 4,304 40.1% 6,004 55.9% 424 10,732 R+15.8
Wells 3,760 36.0% 5,864 56.1% 821 10,445 R+20.1
Ripley 4,022 39.3% 5,770 56.4% 441 10,233 R+17.1
Decatur 3,646 36.6% 5,819 58.5% 486 9,951 R+21.8
Jennings 3,931 40.0% 5,498 56.0% 393 9,822 R+16.0
Spencer 4,153 42.8% 5,284 54.4% 268 9,705 R+11.7
Perry 4,540 48.0% 4,350 45.9% 578 9,468 D+2.0
Washington 3,663 39.4% 5,234 56.3% 400 9,297 R+16.9
Jasper 2,544 27.4% 6,316 68.1% 416 9,276 R+40.7
Jay 3,256 35.3% 5,351 58.1% 610 9,217 R+22.7
Starke 3,615 39.7% 5,035 55.3% 460 9,110 R+15.6
Sullivan 4,335 47.6% 4,465 49.0% 303 9,103 R+1.4
Steuben 2,606 28.9% 5,670 62.9% 732 9,008 R+34.0
Fulton 2,788 31.9% 5,458 62.5% 482 8,728 R+30.6
Carroll 2,966 34.1% 5,262 60.5% 471 8,699 R+26.4
Orange 3,228 37.7% 5,073 59.3% 257 8,558 R+21.6
Fountain 2,845 33.4% 5,289 62.2% 372 8,506 R+28.7
Vermillion 3,793 45.2% 4,195 49.9% 412 8,400 R+4.8
Tipton 2,547 31.6% 5,150 63.8% 374 8,071 R+32.3
Franklin 2,834 36.8% 4,551 59.1% 316 7,701 R+22.3
Rush 2,388 31.8% 4,829 64.3% 294 7,511 R+32.5
Scott 3,694 50.4% 3,432 46.8% 203 7,329 D+3.6
Parke 2,432 33.2% 4,595 62.8% 288 7,315 R+29.6
Pike 3,346 48.1% 3,343 48.1% 263 6,952 level
Lagrange 2,095 30.7% 4,259 62.5% 461 6,815 R+31.8
Pulaski 2,092 33.2% 3,916 62.1% 302 6,310 R+28.9
Owen 2,325 37.4% 3,632 58.5% 255 6,212 R+21.0
Blackford 2,431 40.8% 3,168 53.1% 363 5,962 R+12.4
Martin 2,479 42.9% 3,082 53.3% 218 5,779 R+10.4
Newton 1,649 28.6% 3,850 66.8% 264 5,763 R+38.2
Brown 2,014 38.1% 2,884 54.5% 393 5,291 R+16.4
Benton 1,520 30.6% 3,189 64.3% 254 4,963 R+33.6
Crawford 2,130 43.8% 2,554 52.5% 180 4,864 R+8.7
Warren 1,287 31.0% 2,665 64.1% 205 4,157 R+33.1
Switzerland 1,704 50.7% 1,584 47.1% 72 3,360 D+3.6
Union 898 32.3% 1,766 63.5% 116 2,780 R+31.2
Ohio 1,074 44.4% 1,264 52.2% 82 2,420 R+7.9

Counties as they stood in 1980; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Indiana in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+19.0
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+19.2
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+1.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+20.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+15.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.6
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+32.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+12.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+20.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.1
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+0.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+1.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+16.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+14.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+1.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.8
1900 William McKinley (R) R+4.0
1896 William McKinley (R) R+2.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+0.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.4
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+1.3
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.4
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+2.8