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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in California

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in California in 1984, 57.5% to 41.3%, a margin of 16.2 points and 1,544,490 votes.

California voted 2.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+18.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1980, when Ronald Reagan also won.

Republicans led in 53 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,612,914 votes and went to the Republican by 10.1 points. The closest was Alpine, where 70 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 5,467,009 57.5%
Walter Mondale Democratic 3,922,519 41.3%
All other candidates 115,513 1.2%
Total9,505,041

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,158,912 44.4% 1,424,113 54.5% 29,889 2,612,914 R+10.1
Orange 206,272 24.3% 635,013 74.7% 8,792 850,077 R+50.4
San Diego 257,029 33.4% 502,344 65.3% 9,894 769,267 R+31.9
Santa Clara 229,865 43.6% 288,638 54.8% 8,136 526,639 R+11.2
Alameda 282,041 58.7% 192,408 40.0% 6,425 480,874 D+18.6
Sacramento 159,128 43.1% 204,922 55.6% 4,791 368,841 R+12.4
San Bernardino 116,454 34.0% 222,071 64.8% 4,180 342,705 R+30.8
Contra Costa 140,994 44.6% 172,331 54.5% 2,993 316,318 R+9.9
Riverside 102,043 35.5% 182,324 63.5% 2,835 287,202 R+28.0
San Francisco 193,278 67.4% 90,219 31.4% 3,475 286,972 D+35.9
San Mateo 122,268 46.9% 135,185 51.9% 3,178 260,631 R+5.0
Ventura 66,550 30.2% 151,383 68.7% 2,529 220,462 R+38.5
Fresno 86,315 44.7% 104,757 54.3% 1,864 192,936 R+9.6
Sonoma 71,295 47.6% 76,447 51.1% 1,915 149,657 R+3.4
Kern 49,567 34.0% 94,776 65.0% 1,401 145,744 R+31.0
Santa Barbara 51,243 36.0% 89,314 62.8% 1,763 142,320 R+26.8
San Joaquin 53,846 39.2% 81,795 59.6% 1,572 137,213 R+20.4
Marin 57,533 49.6% 56,887 49.0% 1,630 116,050 D+0.6
Monterey 40,733 41.8% 55,710 57.2% 1,027 97,470 R+15.4
Solano 41,982 44.3% 51,678 54.5% 1,138 94,798 R+10.2
Stanislaus 37,459 39.9% 55,665 59.2% 861 93,985 R+19.4
Santa Cruz 49,091 53.3% 41,652 45.2% 1,404 92,147 D+8.1
Tulare 28,065 35.1% 51,066 63.9% 812 79,943 R+28.8
San Luis Obispo 26,946 35.0% 49,035 63.7% 969 76,950 R+28.7
Butte 25,421 35.3% 45,381 63.1% 1,162 71,964 R+27.7
Placer 21,294 35.2% 38,035 62.9% 1,098 60,427 R+27.7
Humboldt 25,217 46.8% 27,832 51.6% 842 53,891 R+4.9
Shasta 19,298 36.3% 33,041 62.2% 788 53,127 R+25.9
Yolo 25,879 50.9% 24,329 47.8% 645 50,853 D+3.0
Napa 18,599 40.8% 26,322 57.8% 640 45,561 R+17.0
El Dorado 14,312 33.7% 27,583 64.9% 583 42,478 R+31.2
Merced 17,012 40.0% 24,997 58.8% 468 42,477 R+18.8
Nevada 11,198 35.2% 19,809 62.4% 761 31,768 R+27.1
Mendocino 14,407 45.9% 16,369 52.1% 646 31,422 R+6.2
Madera 8,994 38.7% 13,954 60.0% 293 23,241 R+21.3
Imperial 8,237 36.9% 13,829 62.0% 235 22,301 R+25.1
Kings 7,324 35.1% 13,364 64.1% 160 20,848 R+29.0
Sutter 5,535 27.2% 14,477 71.2% 311 20,323 R+44.0
Lake 8,648 43.6% 10,874 54.8% 309 19,831 R+11.2
Tehama 6,527 35.4% 11,586 62.8% 342 18,455 R+27.4
Siskiyou 7,130 39.4% 10,544 58.3% 427 18,101 R+18.9
Tuolumne 7,283 40.3% 10,485 58.1% 283 18,051 R+17.7
Yuba 5,339 34.7% 9,780 63.5% 278 15,397 R+28.8
Calaveras 4,081 34.4% 7,632 64.3% 164 11,877 R+29.9
Amador 4,188 36.9% 6,986 61.5% 189 11,363 R+24.6
San Benito 3,554 37.9% 5,695 60.7% 131 9,380 R+22.8
Plumas 3,837 41.6% 5,224 56.6% 167 9,228 R+15.0
Lassen 3,254 37.1% 5,352 61.1% 155 8,761 R+23.9
Glenn 2,488 28.8% 6,020 69.7% 124 8,632 R+40.9
Inyo 2,360 28.3% 5,863 70.3% 115 8,338 R+42.0
Del Norte 2,696 39.4% 3,996 58.4% 149 6,841 R+19.0
Mariposa 2,399 36.8% 3,989 61.2% 130 6,518 R+24.4
Trinity 2,218 37.4% 3,544 59.7% 173 5,935 R+22.3
Colusa 1,725 33.2% 3,388 65.3% 75 5,188 R+32.1
Modoc 1,219 28.3% 2,995 69.5% 96 4,310 R+41.2
Mono 962 26.2% 2,659 72.3% 56 3,677 R+46.2
Sierra 781 41.2% 1,078 56.9% 37 1,896 R+15.7
Alpine 194 41.6% 264 56.7% 8 466 R+15.0

Counties as they stood in 1984; 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.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5