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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Louisiana

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Louisiana in 1980, 51.2% to 45.7%, a margin of 5.5 points and 84,400 votes.

Louisiana voted 4.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+9.7.

Louisiana changed party: in 1976 it went Democratic, for Jimmy Carter.

Democrats led in 32 of the 64 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 32. The largest, Orleans, cast 187,904 votes and went to the Democrat by 17.3 points. The closest was Tangipahoa, where 85 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ronald Reagan won	Republican	792,853	51.2%
Jimmy Carter	Democratic	708,453	45.7%
All other candidates		47,285	3.1%
Total		1,548,591

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Orleans	106,858 56.9%	74,302 39.5%	6,744	187,904	D+17.3
Jefferson	50,870 32.8%	99,403 64.1%	4,838	155,111	R+31.3
East Baton Rouge	57,442 43.1%	71,063 53.4%	4,663	133,168	R+10.2
Caddo	36,422 40.8%	51,202 57.4%	1,560	89,184	R+16.6
Calcasieu	35,446 54.7%	27,600 42.6%	1,813	64,859	D+12.1
Lafayette	19,694 36.8%	31,429 58.7%	2,403	53,526	R+21.9
Ouachita	16,306 34.5%	29,799 63.0%	1,209	47,314	R+28.5
Rapides	19,436 42.0%	25,576 55.2%	1,290	46,302	R+13.3
St. Tammany	14,161 33.2%	27,214 63.7%	1,323	42,698	R+30.6
St. Landry	17,125 52.4%	14,940 45.7%	613	32,678	D+6.7
St. Bernard	11,367 35.4%	19,410 60.5%	1,288	32,065	R+25.1
Tangipahoa	15,272 48.7%	15,187 48.5%	883	31,342	D+0.3
Lafourche	14,222 46.1%	14,951 48.5%	1,645	30,818	R+2.4
Terrebonne	10,804 37.7%	16,644 58.0%	1,233	28,681	R+20.4
Bossier	9,377 35.6%	16,515 62.7%	447	26,339	R+27.1
Iberia	9,681 38.7%	14,273 57.0%	1,074	25,028	R+18.3
Livingston	11,319 50.1%	10,666 47.2%	624	22,609	D+2.9
Acadia	9,948 45.0%	11,533 52.2%	619	22,100	R+7.2
St. Mary	10,506 48.6%	10,378 48.0%	722	21,606	D+0.6
Vermilion	9,743 45.5%	10,481 49.0%	1,185	21,409	R+3.4
Ascension	12,381 61.3%	7,238 35.8%	581	20,200	D+25.5
Washington	10,413 53.5%	8,681 44.6%	378	19,472	D+8.9
Webster	8,568 48.6%	8,865 50.2%	214	17,647	R+1.7
Avoyelles	7,174 44.6%	8,216 51.1%	681	16,071	R+6.5
St. Charles	7,898 52.2%	6,779 44.8%	446	15,123	D+7.4
St. Martin	7,760 51.6%	6,701 44.6%	579	15,040	D+7.0
Evangeline	6,722 46.5%	7,412 51.3%	327	14,461	R+4.8
Natchitoches	7,102 50.1%	6,668 47.0%	419	14,189	D+3.1
Iberville	9,361 66.2%	4,463 31.6%	311	14,135	D+34.7
St. John The Baptist	7,647 55.2%	5,819 42.0%	395	13,861	D+13.2
Lincoln	5,598 41.6%	7,515 55.8%	357	13,470	R+14.2
Vernon	7,198 53.6%	5,869 43.7%	369	13,436	D+9.9
Morehouse	4,856 39.2%	7,254 58.5%	287	12,397	R+19.3
Jefferson Davis	6,140 50.6%	5,667 46.7%	320	12,127	D+3.9
Beauregard	5,556 50.2%	5,250 47.5%	253	11,059	D+2.8
Desoto	5,861 56.8%	4,349 42.1%	117	10,327	D+14.6
Pointe Coupee	6,395 62.3%	3,667 35.7%	201	10,263	D+26.6
Plaquemines	4,318 42.8%	5,489 54.5%	272	10,079	R+11.6
St. James	6,206 63.2%	3,429 34.9%	189	9,824	D+28.3
Franklin	4,177 42.8%	5,301 54.4%	270	9,748	R+11.5
Sabine	5,100 53.2%	4,265 44.5%	220	9,585	D+8.7
Allen	6,057 63.3%	3,328 34.8%	179	9,564	D+28.5
Union	3,841 41.8%	5,130 55.8%	227	9,198	R+14.0
Concordia	3,956 43.5%	4,933 54.2%	213	9,102	R+10.7
Assumption	4,679 51.6%	4,001 44.1%	393	9,073	D+7.5
Richland	3,745 42.8%	4,772 54.6%	227	8,744	R+11.7
Bienville	4,123 53.1%	3,508 45.1%	139	7,770	D+7.9
West Baton Rouge	4,739 61.1%	2,828 36.5%	186	7,753	D+24.6
Jackson	3,609 46.7%	3,923 50.8%	198	7,730	R+4.1
Winn	3,411 45.2%	3,944 52.3%	192	7,547	R+7.1
Grant	3,290 46.0%	3,611 50.5%	247	7,148	R+4.5
Claiborne	3,443 48.7%	3,538 50.0%	93	7,074	R+1.3
East Feliciana	4,033 58.7%	2,650 38.6%	190	6,873	D+20.1
La Salle	2,665 40.2%	3,792 57.2%	177	6,634	R+17.0
Madison	3,264 55.1%	2,531 42.7%	133	5,928	D+12.4
West Carroll	2,118 37.1%	3,430 60.0%	164	5,712	R+23.0
Catahoula	2,414 43.6%	2,942 53.2%	175	5,531	R+9.5
Red River	2,776 55.7%	2,147 43.1%	63	4,986	D+12.6
St. Helena	3,183 65.6%	1,531 31.6%	138	4,852	D+34.0
Caldwell	1,786 39.0%	2,653 57.9%	142	4,581	R+18.9
East Carroll	2,283 54.0%	1,867 44.1%	81	4,231	D+9.8
Cameron	2,221 58.5%	1,449 38.2%	128	3,798	D+20.3
Tensas	2,046 54.1%	1,645 43.5%	94	3,785	D+10.6
West Feliciana	2,341 62.9%	1,237 33.2%	144	3,722	D+29.7

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.

Louisiana in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Donald Trump (R)	R+22.0
2020	Donald Trump (R)	R+18.6
2016	Donald Trump (R)	R+19.6
2012	Mitt Romney (R)	R+17.2
2008	John McCain (R)	R+18.6
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+14.5
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+7.7
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+4.6
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+9.2
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+22.6
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+5.5
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+5.8
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+37.0
1968	George Wallace (other)
1964	Barry Goldwater (R)	R+13.6
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+21.8
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+13.8
1952	Adlai Stevenson II (D)	D+5.8
1948	Strom Thurmond (other)
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+61.2
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+71.8
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+77.7
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+85.8
1928	Al Smith (D)	D+52.6
1924	John W. Davis (D)	D+56.2
1920	James M. Cox (D)	D+38.7
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+78.9
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+72.0
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+72.7
1904	Alton B. Parker (D)	D+78.8
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+58.1
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+54.6
1892	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+53.1
1888	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+46.9
1884	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+14.9
1880	Winfield Scott Hancock (D)	D+25.0
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.3
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+11.4
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+41.4

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