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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Oregon

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Oregon in 1980, 48.3% to 38.7%, a margin of 9.7 points and 114,154 votes.

Oregon voted 0.1 points more Democratic 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 32 of the 36 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Multnomah, cast 258,968 votes and went to the Democrat by 7.3 points. The closest was Wheeler, where 160 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	571,044	48.3%
Jimmy Carter	Democratic	456,890	38.7%
John B. Anderson	Independent	112,389	9.5%
All other candidates		41,193	3.5%
Total		1,181,516

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Multnomah	120,487 46.5%	101,606 39.2%	36,875	258,968	D+7.3
Lane	52,240 41.6%	54,750 43.6%	18,614	125,604	R+2.0
Washington	37,915 34.0%	57,165 51.3%	16,275	111,355	R+17.3
Clackamas	40,462 37.0%	54,111 49.4%	14,910	109,483	R+12.5
Marion	32,134 37.6%	42,191 49.4%	11,124	85,449	R+11.8
Jackson	19,903 33.9%	32,879 56.0%	5,958	58,740	R+22.1
Douglas	12,564 31.8%	23,101 58.5%	3,851	39,516	R+26.7
Linn	13,516 37.2%	18,943 52.2%	3,834	36,293	R+15.0
Benton	13,150 38.1%	14,982 43.4%	6,375	34,507	R+5.3
Deschutes	9,641 33.6%	15,186 52.9%	3,888	28,715	R+19.3
Coos	11,817 41.9%	13,041 46.3%	3,318	28,176	R+4.3
Josephine	7,116 27.0%	16,827 63.9%	2,393	26,336	R+36.9
Klamath	7,371 28.8%	16,060 62.8%	2,161	25,592	R+34.0
Yamhill	8,694 36.9%	12,054 51.1%	2,820	23,568	R+14.3
Umatilla	7,382 32.9%	12,950 57.8%	2,082	22,414	R+24.8
Polk	7,833 38.2%	10,006 48.7%	2,692	20,531	R+10.6
Lincoln	7,009 40.9%	7,637 44.6%	2,481	17,127	R+3.7
Columbia	7,124 45.9%	6,623 42.7%	1,758	15,505	D+3.2
Clatsop	6,482 43.3%	6,124 40.9%	2,353	14,959	D+2.4
Malheur	2,937 25.8%	7,705 67.8%	722	11,364	R+42.0
Union	3,677 32.6%	6,514 57.8%	1,081	11,272	R+25.2
Wasco	4,336 42.4%	4,703 46.0%	1,196	10,235	R+3.6
Tillamook	4,521 45.7%	4,123 41.6%	1,259	9,903	D+4.0
Curry	2,656 31.3%	4,910 57.8%	922	8,488	R+26.6
Baker	2,515 31.4%	4,747 59.2%	751	8,013	R+27.9
Hood River	2,924 41.2%	3,450 48.6%	718	7,092	R+7.4
Crook	2,162 36.9%	3,113 53.1%	587	5,862	R+16.2
Jefferson	1,654 34.9%	2,523 53.3%	560	4,737	R+18.3
Grant	1,274 30.4%	2,519 60.2%	394	4,187	R+29.7
Wallowa	995 26.2%	2,485 65.5%	312	3,792	R+39.3
Harney	1,110 29.3%	2,313 61.1%	362	3,785	R+31.8
Lake	1,147 31.1%	2,234 60.6%	308	3,689	R+29.5
Morrow	1,077 34.3%	1,728 55.0%	336	3,141	R+20.7
Sherman	389 33.2%	677 57.9%	104	1,170	R+24.6
Gilliam	394 34.6%	622 54.6%	124	1,140	R+20.0
Wheeler	282 34.9%	442 54.7%	84	808	R+19.8

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.

Oregon in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+14.3
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+16.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+11.0
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+12.1
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.3
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+4.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+0.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+8.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+10.0
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.7
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.2
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+9.7
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+0.2
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+10.1
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+6.0
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+10.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.6
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+3.4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+4.8
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+8.1
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+34.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+21.1
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.0
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.8
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+26.7
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+2.6
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+9.0
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+22.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+47.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+16.1
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+2.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+26.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+10.9
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+4.3
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+20.2
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+0.7

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