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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in New Jersey

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in New Jersey in 1984, 60.1% to 39.2%, a margin of 20.9 points and 672,307 votes.

New Jersey voted 2.7 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 20 of the 21 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Bergen, cast 424,718 votes and went to the Republican by 26.7 points. The closest was Mercer, where 4,797 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 1,933,630 60.1%
Walter Mondale Democratic 1,261,323 39.2%
All other candidates 22,909 0.7%
Total3,217,862

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bergen 155,039 36.5% 268,507 63.2% 1,172 424,718 R+26.7
Essex 173,295 55.1% 136,798 43.5% 4,450 314,543 D+11.6
Middlesex 104,905 39.2% 160,221 59.8% 2,727 267,853 R+20.7
Monmouth 79,382 34.1% 152,595 65.5% 932 232,909 R+31.4
Union 92,056 40.2% 135,446 59.1% 1,638 229,140 R+18.9
Hudson 94,304 45.3% 112,834 54.2% 1,106 208,244 R+8.9
Camden 90,233 44.9% 109,749 54.6% 904 200,886 R+9.7
Morris 53,201 27.8% 137,719 71.9% 584 191,504 R+44.1
Ocean 51,012 28.8% 124,391 70.2% 1,710 177,113 R+41.4
Passaic 69,590 39.8% 101,951 58.3% 3,399 174,940 R+18.5
Burlington 57,467 38.9% 89,815 60.8% 377 147,659 R+21.9
Mercer 66,398 48.1% 71,195 51.5% 528 138,121 R+3.5
Somerset 31,924 32.2% 66,303 66.8% 1,069 99,296 R+34.6
Gloucester 32,702 37.6% 54,041 62.1% 307 87,050 R+24.5
Atlantic 33,240 40.1% 49,158 59.3% 453 82,851 R+19.2
Cumberland 21,141 41.3% 29,398 57.5% 616 51,155 R+16.1
Sussex 11,502 24.3% 35,680 75.4% 163 47,345 R+51.1
Cape May 13,378 31.6% 28,786 68.1% 133 42,297 R+36.4
Hunterdon 10,972 26.7% 29,737 72.4% 370 41,079 R+45.7
Warren 10,647 32.6% 21,938 67.1% 122 32,707 R+34.5
Salem 8,935 33.8% 17,368 65.7% 149 26,452 R+31.9

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.

New Jersey in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+5.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+15.9
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+14.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+6.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+15.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+13.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+31.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+30.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.9
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.2
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+11.7
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+18.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+14.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+23.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+4.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.7
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.8
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+5.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+9.0
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.8