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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Washington

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Washington in 1980, 49.7% to 37.3%, a margin of 12.3 points and 215,051 votes.

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

Republicans led in 37 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, King, cast 600,157 votes and went to the Republican by 6.3 points. The closest was Skamania, where 43 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	865,244	49.7%
Jimmy Carter	Democratic	650,193	37.3%
John B. Anderson	Independent	185,073	10.6%
All other candidates		41,884	2.4%
Total		1,742,394

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	235,046 39.2%	272,567 45.4%	92,544	600,157	R+6.3
Pierce	64,444 36.5%	90,247 51.1%	21,820	176,511	R+14.6
Spokane	49,263 35.0%	78,096 55.5%	13,326	140,685	R+20.5
Snohomish	52,003 38.3%	66,153 48.7%	17,751	135,907	R+10.4
Clark	30,584 42.4%	33,223 46.1%	8,268	72,075	R+3.7
Yakima	21,873 35.7%	33,815 55.2%	5,565	61,253	R+19.5
Kitsap	20,893 34.7%	29,420 48.8%	9,983	60,296	R+14.1
Thurston	20,508 37.4%	26,369 48.1%	7,946	54,823	R+10.7
Whatcom	18,430 40.0%	21,371 46.4%	6,256	46,057	R+6.4
Benton	11,561 26.0%	28,728 64.7%	4,124	44,413	R+38.7
Skagit	11,299 36.9%	15,520 50.7%	3,804	30,623	R+13.8
Cowlitz	12,560 43.9%	13,154 45.9%	2,925	28,639	R+2.1
Grays Harbor	11,290 44.4%	10,226 40.2%	3,928	25,444	D+4.2
Lewis	6,962 30.6%	13,636 59.9%	2,151	22,749	R+29.3
Clallam	8,029 36.0%	11,515 51.6%	2,752	22,296	R+15.6
Chelan	6,483 32.7%	11,299 56.9%	2,068	19,850	R+24.3
Walla Walla	5,825 30.7%	11,223 59.1%	1,929	18,977	R+28.4
Island	5,422 29.2%	10,926 58.9%	2,211	18,559	R+29.7
Grant	5,673 31.2%	11,152 61.3%	1,371	18,196	R+30.1
Whitman	5,726 33.6%	8,636 50.7%	2,662	17,024	R+17.1
Mason	5,241 38.2%	6,745 49.1%	1,751	13,737	R+10.9
Okanogan	4,634 37.1%	6,460 51.7%	1,399	12,493	R+14.6
Franklin	3,719 31.1%	7,327 61.3%	915	11,961	R+30.2
Stevens	3,584 31.1%	7,094 61.5%	852	11,530	R+30.4
Kittitas	4,075 37.9%	5,359 49.9%	1,314	10,748	R+11.9
Douglas	2,833 32.5%	5,171 59.4%	705	8,709	R+26.8
Jefferson	3,279 40.1%	3,645 44.6%	1,246	8,170	R+4.5
Pacific	3,727 46.5%	3,132 39.1%	1,153	8,012	D+7.4
Asotin	2,724 40.9%	3,275 49.2%	660	6,659	R+8.3
Klickitat	2,596 41.3%	3,113 49.5%	575	6,284	R+8.2
Lincoln	1,597 29.9%	3,324 62.3%	416	5,337	R+32.4
San Juan	1,666 33.1%	2,363 47.0%	1,002	5,031	R+13.9
Adams	1,223 25.6%	3,248 68.0%	305	4,776	R+42.4
Pend Oreille	1,399 36.5%	2,136 55.7%	300	3,835	R+19.2
Skamania	1,373 44.4%	1,416 45.8%	306	3,095	R+1.4
Ferry	802 38.2%	1,108 52.8%	190	2,100	R+14.6
Columbia	587 28.1%	1,349 64.7%	150	2,086	R+36.5
Wahkiakum	751 42.2%	828 46.6%	199	1,778	R+4.3
Garfield	509 33.5%	875 57.6%	135	1,519	R+24.1

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.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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