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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in Colorado

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in Colorado in 1984, 63.4% to 35.1%, a margin of 28.3 points and 366,842 votes.

Colorado voted 10.1 points more Republican 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 58 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Denver, cast 219,738 votes and went to the Democrat by 2.3 points. The closest was Huerfano, where 21 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 821,817 63.4%
Walter Mondale Democratic 454,975 35.1%
All other candidates 18,588 1.4%
Total1,295,380

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 110,200 50.2% 105,096 47.8% 4,442 219,738 D+2.3
Jefferson 53,700 29.7% 124,496 68.9% 2,432 180,628 R+39.2
Arapahoe 39,891 26.7% 107,556 71.9% 2,107 149,554 R+45.2
El Paso 28,185 23.9% 88,377 75.0% 1,210 117,772 R+51.1
Boulder 42,195 43.4% 53,535 55.1% 1,493 97,223 R+11.7
Adams 35,285 38.6% 55,092 60.2% 1,134 91,511 R+21.6
Larimer 23,896 31.9% 49,883 66.6% 1,069 74,848 R+34.7
Pueblo 27,126 52.0% 24,634 47.2% 440 52,200 D+4.8
Weld 13,863 30.3% 31,293 68.5% 523 45,679 R+38.2
Mesa 9,938 29.2% 23,736 69.7% 400 34,074 R+40.5
Douglas 3,011 19.5% 12,249 79.3% 181 15,441 R+59.8
La Plata 4,040 31.3% 8,719 67.5% 159 12,918 R+36.2
Fremont 3,895 31.8% 8,250 67.3% 111 12,256 R+35.5
Garfield 3,076 29.9% 7,111 69.1% 98 10,285 R+39.2
Montrose 2,864 28.2% 7,162 70.4% 147 10,173 R+42.2
Delta 2,835 29.4% 6,678 69.3% 126 9,639 R+39.9
Otero 3,005 34.9% 5,373 62.4% 237 8,615 R+27.5
Morgan 2,331 27.2% 6,097 71.3% 128 8,556 R+44.0
Logan 2,155 26.5% 5,883 72.3% 95 8,133 R+45.8
Las Animas 3,670 54.4% 2,992 44.4% 80 6,742 D+10.1
Eagle 2,032 30.6% 4,500 67.8% 101 6,633 R+37.2
Montezuma 1,665 25.6% 4,753 73.1% 88 6,506 R+47.5
Routt 2,051 32.0% 4,239 66.2% 118 6,408 R+34.1
Chaffee 1,779 32.1% 3,680 66.3% 91 5,550 R+34.3
Pitkin 2,293 41.5% 3,117 56.4% 118 5,528 R+14.9
Prowers 1,467 28.8% 3,501 68.7% 127 5,095 R+39.9
Moffat 1,228 24.7% 3,630 72.9% 123 4,981 R+48.2
Summit 1,588 32.3% 3,253 66.1% 77 4,918 R+33.9
Alamosa 1,720 36.5% 2,953 62.7% 38 4,711 R+26.2
Gunnison 1,424 30.9% 3,100 67.3% 81 4,605 R+36.4
Yuma 1,121 24.5% 3,394 74.3% 52 4,567 R+49.8
Teller 1,043 22.9% 3,460 75.8% 59 4,562 R+53.0
Rio Grande 1,104 25.9% 3,122 73.3% 36 4,262 R+47.3
Grand 1,017 25.8% 2,865 72.7% 58 3,940 R+46.9
Kit Carson 778 21.7% 2,762 77.1% 44 3,584 R+55.4
Elbert 802 23.2% 2,605 75.3% 54 3,461 R+52.1
Clear Creek 1,089 33.1% 2,151 65.3% 52 3,292 R+32.3
Conejos 1,553 47.8% 1,669 51.4% 25 3,247 R+3.6
Huerfano 1,602 49.7% 1,581 49.0% 41 3,224 D+0.7
Park 782 26.9% 2,041 70.3% 79 2,902 R+43.4
Lake 1,324 48.2% 1,364 49.7% 59 2,747 R+1.5
Washington 568 21.2% 2,080 77.5% 36 2,684 R+56.3
Rio Blanco 484 18.4% 2,131 80.8% 22 2,637 R+62.5
Baca 580 23.1% 1,903 75.8% 26 2,509 R+52.7
Phillips 651 27.5% 1,689 71.4% 27 2,367 R+43.9
Lincoln 587 25.8% 1,661 72.9% 30 2,278 R+47.1
Bent 859 39.1% 1,314 59.8% 26 2,199 R+20.7
Archuleta 584 27.0% 1,557 72.0% 22 2,163 R+45.0
Saguache 867 41.6% 1,201 57.6% 16 2,084 R+16.0
Costilla 997 61.1% 621 38.1% 13 1,631 D+23.1
Sedgwick 429 27.1% 1,146 72.4% 8 1,583 R+45.3
Gilpin 634 40.4% 896 57.0% 41 1,571 R+16.7
Crowley 517 33.9% 993 65.0% 17 1,527 R+31.2
San Miguel 654 43.0% 833 54.8% 34 1,521 R+11.8
Ouray 366 28.4% 914 70.9% 10 1,290 R+42.5
Cheyenne 307 25.2% 892 73.2% 19 1,218 R+48.0
Kiowa 265 23.5% 850 75.2% 15 1,130 R+51.8
Custer 241 22.0% 832 76.1% 20 1,093 R+54.1
Jackson 191 20.7% 722 78.2% 10 923 R+57.5
Dolores 173 20.4% 667 78.5% 10 850 R+58.1
San Juan 183 35.3% 320 61.7% 16 519 R+26.4
Mineral 117 25.5% 333 72.5% 9 459 R+47.1
Hinsdale 98 23.7% 310 74.9% 6 414 R+51.2

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.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+11.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+13.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+4.9
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+4.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+8.4
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+1.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+4.3
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+7.8
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.3
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+23.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.3
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+5.4
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+6.8
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+23.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+26.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.9
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+14.2
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+13.4
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.1
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+14.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.6
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+5.2