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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1980, 49.6% to 42.5%, a margin of 7.1 points and 324,332 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 2.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+9.7.

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

Republicans led in 57 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 10. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 718,100 votes and went to the Democrat by 24.7 points. The closest was Armstrong, where 237 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 2,261,872 49.6%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 1,937,540 42.5%
John B. Anderson Independent 292,921 6.4%
All other candidates 69,168 1.5%
Total4,561,501

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 421,253 58.7% 244,108 34.0% 52,739 718,100 D+24.7
Allegheny 297,464 47.9% 271,850 43.7% 52,104 621,418 D+4.1
Montgomery 84,289 31.0% 156,996 57.8% 30,268 271,553 R+26.8
Delaware 88,314 34.4% 143,282 55.8% 25,263 256,859 R+21.4
Bucks 59,120 32.6% 100,536 55.5% 21,508 181,164 R+22.9
Westmoreland 68,627 49.0% 63,140 45.1% 8,372 140,139 D+3.9
Luzerne 59,976 44.4% 67,822 50.2% 7,282 135,080 R+5.8
Chester 34,307 28.6% 73,046 60.9% 12,543 119,896 R+32.3
Lancaster 30,026 25.3% 79,963 67.3% 8,908 118,897 R+42.0
Berks 36,449 33.9% 60,576 56.4% 10,360 107,385 R+22.5
Erie 45,946 44.5% 48,918 47.4% 8,298 103,162 R+2.9
York 33,406 32.8% 61,098 60.0% 7,387 101,891 R+27.2
Lehigh 34,827 36.3% 50,782 52.9% 10,376 95,985 R+16.6
Lackawanna 45,257 47.4% 44,242 46.4% 5,948 95,447 D+1.1
Washington 45,295 55.2% 32,532 39.7% 4,191 82,018 D+15.6
Beaver 43,955 55.1% 30,496 38.2% 5,314 79,765 D+16.9
Dauphin 27,252 34.8% 44,039 56.2% 7,096 78,387 R+21.4
Northampton 31,920 42.0% 35,787 47.1% 8,330 76,037 R+5.1
Cambria 36,121 50.1% 33,072 45.8% 2,938 72,131 D+4.2
Cumberland 19,789 29.4% 41,152 61.2% 6,319 67,260 R+31.8
Schuylkill 24,968 38.4% 36,273 55.8% 3,728 64,969 R+17.4
Butler 19,711 37.4% 28,821 54.7% 4,157 52,689 R+17.3
Fayette 27,963 56.6% 19,252 39.0% 2,168 49,383 D+17.6
Blair 15,014 32.4% 28,931 62.4% 2,414 46,359 R+30.0
Mercer 19,716 42.8% 22,372 48.5% 4,002 46,090 R+5.8
Centre 15,987 37.5% 20,605 48.3% 6,039 42,631 R+10.8
Lycoming 14,609 36.0% 23,415 57.7% 2,529 40,553 R+21.7
Lawrence 19,506 48.5% 18,404 45.8% 2,303 40,213 D+2.7
Franklin 12,061 32.8% 22,716 61.8% 1,964 36,741 R+29.0
Northumberland 13,750 37.9% 20,608 56.8% 1,932 36,290 R+18.9
Lebanon 8,281 23.3% 24,495 69.0% 2,731 35,507 R+45.7
Indiana 13,828 44.0% 15,607 49.6% 2,016 31,451 R+5.7
Crawford 11,778 38.1% 16,552 53.6% 2,579 30,909 R+15.4
Somerset 11,695 38.4% 17,729 58.2% 1,031 30,455 R+19.8
Clearfield 11,647 41.3% 15,299 54.3% 1,246 28,192 R+13.0
Armstrong 12,718 46.9% 12,955 47.8% 1,431 27,104 R+0.9
Columbia 9,449 40.5% 12,426 53.3% 1,438 23,313 R+12.8
Adams 7,266 32.4% 13,760 61.4% 1,378 22,404 R+29.0
Monroe 7,551 33.9% 12,357 55.4% 2,381 22,289 R+21.6
Bradford 6,439 30.9% 13,139 63.0% 1,287 20,865 R+32.1
Venango 7,800 37.9% 11,547 56.0% 1,257 20,604 R+18.2
Carbon 8,009 41.4% 10,042 52.0% 1,278 19,329 R+10.5
Jefferson 6,296 37.5% 9,628 57.4% 854 16,778 R+19.9
Bedford 4,950 30.1% 10,930 66.6% 539 16,419 R+36.4
Warren 5,560 34.8% 9,165 57.4% 1,249 15,974 R+22.6
McKean 5,064 33.4% 9,229 60.9% 873 15,166 R+27.5
Clarion 5,472 36.2% 8,812 58.4% 817 15,101 R+22.1
Susquehanna 4,660 31.7% 8,994 61.2% 1,035 14,689 R+29.5
Greene 8,193 58.0% 5,336 37.8% 592 14,121 D+20.2
Huntingdon 5,094 36.6% 8,140 58.4% 694 13,928 R+21.9
Tioga 4,273 30.9% 8,770 63.3% 806 13,849 R+32.5
Elk 5,898 43.1% 7,175 52.5% 596 13,669 R+9.3
Mifflin 5,226 38.7% 7,541 55.8% 753 13,520 R+17.1
Perry 3,681 29.2% 8,026 63.7% 892 12,599 R+34.5
Wayne 3,375 26.9% 8,468 67.5% 705 12,548 R+40.6
Clinton 4,842 40.3% 6,288 52.4% 880 12,010 R+12.0
Snyder 2,418 22.8% 7,634 72.1% 539 10,591 R+49.2
Union 2,687 26.2% 6,798 66.3% 771 10,256 R+40.1
Wyoming 2,766 30.2% 5,919 64.6% 482 9,167 R+34.4
Pike 2,132 26.7% 5,249 65.8% 592 7,973 R+39.1
Juniata 2,696 37.6% 4,139 57.8% 326 7,161 R+20.2
Potter 2,299 34.5% 4,073 61.1% 297 6,669 R+26.6
Montour 2,272 37.3% 3,399 55.8% 425 6,096 R+18.5
Fulton 1,342 31.8% 2,740 64.9% 140 4,222 R+33.1
Cameron 1,112 36.7% 1,795 59.2% 123 3,030 R+22.5
Sullivan 1,074 37.0% 1,676 57.8% 152 2,902 R+20.7
Forest 819 38.1% 1,206 56.1% 124 2,149 R+18.0

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4