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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in West Virginia

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in West Virginia in 1984, 55.1% to 44.6%, a margin of 10.5 points and 77,358 votes.

West Virginia voted 7.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+18.2.

West Virginia changed party: in 1980 it went Democratic, for Jimmy Carter.

Republicans led in 42 of the 55 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 13. The largest, Kanawha, cast 89,542 votes and went to the Republican by 15.3 points. The closest was Nicholas, where 68 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 405,483 55.1%
Walter Mondale Democratic 328,125 44.6%
All other candidates 2,134 0.3%
Total735,742

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 37,832 42.3% 51,499 57.5% 211 89,542 R+15.3
Cabell 15,513 41.4% 21,815 58.3% 117 37,445 R+16.8
Wood 11,357 31.3% 24,821 68.4% 101 36,279 R+37.1
Harrison 14,969 43.5% 19,400 56.3% 68 34,437 R+12.9
Raleigh 14,442 49.6% 14,571 50.0% 109 29,122 R+0.4
Monongalia 13,236 46.8% 14,972 53.0% 66 28,274 R+6.1
Marion 13,833 51.2% 13,106 48.5% 81 27,020 D+2.7
Ohio 10,163 43.0% 13,447 56.8% 52 23,662 R+13.9
Mercer 9,164 39.6% 13,910 60.1% 81 23,155 R+20.5
Berkeley 6,181 32.4% 12,887 67.5% 24 19,092 R+35.1
Fayette 11,650 61.0% 7,360 38.6% 76 19,086 D+22.5
Logan 10,892 62.7% 6,425 37.0% 65 17,382 D+25.7
Wayne 8,378 48.6% 8,811 51.1% 47 17,236 R+2.5
Marshall 7,947 47.8% 8,615 51.8% 54 16,616 R+4.0
Hancock 8,708 54.0% 7,326 45.4% 90 16,124 D+8.6
Putnam 5,208 35.9% 9,238 63.7% 46 14,492 R+27.8
Greenbrier 5,599 43.2% 7,337 56.6% 38 12,974 R+13.4
McDowell 8,546 66.3% 4,284 33.3% 53 12,883 D+33.1
Mingo 8,434 66.3% 4,275 33.6% 17 12,726 D+32.7
Mason 5,701 46.0% 6,648 53.6% 44 12,393 R+7.6
Boone 7,121 60.2% 4,656 39.4% 44 11,821 D+20.9
Brooke 6,636 57.7% 4,819 41.9% 43 11,498 D+15.8
Jackson 4,147 36.7% 7,117 62.9% 46 11,310 R+26.3
Mineral 3,832 34.4% 7,291 65.5% 15 11,138 R+31.1
Wyoming 5,691 51.3% 5,379 48.5% 25 11,095 D+2.8
Preston 4,054 36.8% 6,955 63.0% 22 11,031 R+26.3
Randolph 4,839 44.1% 6,100 55.6% 25 10,964 R+11.5
Jefferson 4,216 41.6% 5,884 58.1% 34 10,134 R+16.5
Lincoln 5,467 55.2% 4,405 44.5% 30 9,902 D+10.7
Nicholas 4,588 49.5% 4,656 50.2% 29 9,273 R+0.7
Upshur 2,468 29.2% 5,951 70.3% 47 8,466 R+41.1
Wetzel 3,549 43.2% 4,626 56.4% 32 8,207 R+13.1
Lewis 2,693 33.5% 5,297 66.0% 41 8,031 R+32.4
Barbour 3,108 44.4% 3,877 55.4% 10 6,995 R+11.0
Taylor 2,754 40.7% 4,007 59.2% 4 6,765 R+18.5
Braxton 3,350 53.5% 2,902 46.3% 13 6,265 D+7.2
Roane 2,468 39.6% 3,751 60.1% 21 6,240 R+20.6
Hampshire 2,102 34.0% 4,065 65.7% 20 6,187 R+31.7
Monroe 2,333 39.2% 3,612 60.7% 9 5,954 R+21.5
Summers 2,670 47.2% 2,975 52.6% 14 5,659 R+5.4
Morgan 1,457 29.5% 3,469 70.3% 6 4,932 R+40.8
Ritchie 1,231 26.7% 3,355 72.8% 23 4,609 R+46.1
Hardy 1,641 35.8% 2,938 64.1% 8 4,587 R+28.3
Tyler 1,395 30.5% 3,170 69.3% 10 4,575 R+38.8
Grant 828 18.2% 3,715 81.6% 11 4,554 R+63.4
Pocahontas 1,903 43.4% 2,479 56.5% 4 4,386 R+13.1
Tucker 1,766 44.0% 2,240 55.8% 8 4,014 R+11.8
Webster 2,355 60.0% 1,565 39.9% 6 3,926 D+20.1
Clay 2,117 55.8% 1,667 43.9% 12 3,796 D+11.9
Pleasants 1,458 39.1% 2,255 60.5% 12 3,725 R+21.4
Pendleton 1,464 41.6% 2,047 58.2% 7 3,518 R+16.6
Gilmer 1,494 43.3% 1,953 56.6% 5 3,452 R+13.3
Calhoun 1,473 45.0% 1,765 53.9% 38 3,276 R+8.9
Doddridge 836 26.2% 2,343 73.3% 16 3,195 R+47.2
Wirt 868 37.4% 1,450 62.4% 4 2,322 R+25.1

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.

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6