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1984 presidential election in Connecticut

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in Connecticut in 1984, 60.7% to 38.8%, a margin of 21.9 points and 321,280 votes.

Connecticut voted 3.7 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 8 of the 8 counties as they stood then. The largest, Fairfield, cast 391,179 votes and went to the Republican by 32.0 points. The closest was Windham, where 9,566 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ronald Reagan won Republican 890,877 60.7%
Walter Mondale Democratic 569,597 38.8%
All other candidates 6,426 0.4%
Total1,466,900

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Fairfield 132,253 33.8% 257,319 65.8% 1,607 391,179 R+32.0
Hartford 168,609 44.6% 208,210 55.0% 1,586 378,405 R+10.5
New Haven 140,945 39.7% 212,166 59.8% 1,601 354,712 R+20.1
New London 38,857 37.9% 63,121 61.6% 509 102,487 R+23.7
Litchfield 26,564 33.4% 52,583 66.2% 269 79,416 R+32.8
Middlesex 26,915 40.3% 39,580 59.3% 227 66,722 R+19.0
Tolland 20,103 37.7% 32,981 61.9% 214 53,298 R+24.2
Windham 15,351 37.9% 24,917 61.6% 187 40,455 R+23.6

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.

Connecticut in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+20.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+13.6
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+22.4
2004 John Kerry (D) D+10.4
2000 Al Gore (D) D+17.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.1
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+21.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+9.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+5.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+18.4
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+7.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+27.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.6
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.1
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+8.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+29.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.0
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+30.7
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.3
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.2
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.9
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+2.0
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.8
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+3.1