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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in Vermont

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in Vermont in 1984, 57.9% to 40.8%, a margin of 17.1 points and 40,135 votes.

Vermont voted 1.1 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 14 of the 14 counties as they stood then. The largest, Chittenden, cast 55,845 votes and went to the Republican by 9.6 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 557 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 135,865 57.9%
Walter Mondale Democratic 95,730 40.8%
All other candidates 2,966 1.3%
Total234,561

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Chittenden 24,830 44.5% 30,217 54.1% 798 55,845 R+9.6
Washington 11,163 44.4% 13,706 54.5% 289 25,158 R+10.1
Rutland 9,545 38.2% 15,236 61.0% 204 24,985 R+22.8
Windsor 9,869 40.7% 14,054 58.0% 324 24,247 R+17.3
Windham 8,206 44.9% 9,880 54.1% 193 18,279 R+9.2
Bennington 6,039 39.5% 9,035 59.1% 210 15,284 R+19.6
Franklin 5,755 39.5% 8,683 59.6% 124 14,562 R+20.1
Addison 5,299 40.7% 7,589 58.3% 137 13,025 R+17.6
Orange 4,088 38.4% 6,407 60.2% 140 10,635 R+21.8
Caledonia 3,223 30.4% 7,249 68.3% 138 10,610 R+37.9
Orleans 3,294 35.1% 5,966 63.5% 131 9,391 R+28.5
Lamoille 2,746 36.5% 4,674 62.1% 106 7,526 R+25.6
Grand Isle 980 38.4% 1,537 60.3% 33 2,550 R+21.8
Essex 693 29.5% 1,632 69.5% 24 2,349 R+40.0

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1