1980 United States presidential election in Kansas

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1980 United States presidential election in Kansas
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  1976 November 4, 1980 1984  
  Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg Carter cropped.jpg John B. Anderson in New Jersey (cropped).jpg
Nominee Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter John B. Anderson
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Home state California Georgia Illinois
Running mate George H. W. Bush Walter Mondale Patrick Lucey
Electoral vote700
Popular vote566,812326,15068,231
Percentage57.85%33.29%6.96%

Kansas Presidential Election Results 1980.svg
County Results

President before election

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1980 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Kansas had gone Republican in the previous ten presidential elections except for Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide, although Carter's 7.5-point defeat in 1976 was the second-best performance for a Democrat in that period. Carter and Ronald Reagan both won landslides in the state’s early April presidential primaries, in Reagan’s case this being aided strongly by the support of Sunflower State Senator Bob Dole. [1] By July it was clear that the economic frustration of Kansas’ farmers, who had due to a major drought given unusual support to Carter in 1976, would turn them and the state further towards Reagan than it had been in 1976. [2] Although Reagan and Carter campaigned heavily in neighboring Jackson County, Missouri during October – spending time in both Independence [3] and the Missouri section of Kansas City where they sparred over the Iran hostage crisis [4] – neither candidate campaigned over the Kansas state line.

Kansas was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a margin of 24.56 points. [5] As had previously occurred in 1952, 1956 and 1968, the Republican nominee won every county except urbanised and substantially black Wyandotte. Kansas has remained a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. [6]

Results

Electoral results
Presidential candidatePartyHome statePopular voteElectoral
vote
Running mate
CountPercentageVice-presidential candidateHome stateElectoral vote
Ronald Reagan Republican California 566,81257.85%7 George H. W. Bush Texas 7
Jimmy Carter Democrat Georgia 326,15033.29%0 Walter Mondale Minnesota 0
John B. Anderson Independent Illinois 68,2316.96%0 Patrick Lucey Wisconsin 0
Ed Clark Independent California 14,4701.48%0 David Koch New York 0
Frank Shelton American Kansas 1,5550.16%0 George E. Jackson Maine 0
Gus Hall Independent New York 9670.10%0 Angela Davis California 0
Benjamin Bubar Statesman Maine 8210.08%0 Earl Dodge Colorado 0
John Rarick Conservative Louisiana 7890.08%0 Eileen Shearer California 0
Total979,795100%77
Needed to win270270

Results by county

1980 United States presidential election in Kansas by county
CountyRonald Wilson Reagan
Republican
James Earl Carter
Democratic
John Bayard Anderson [7]
Independent
Edward E. Clark [7]
Independent
Various candidates [7]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Allen 3,81160.33%2,00931.80%3806.02%961.52%210.33%1,80228.53%6,317
Anderson 2,36362.63%1,17031.01%1844.88%491.30%70.19%1,19331.62%3,773
Atchison 4,08453.87%3,06340.40%3454.55%801.06%90.12%1,02113.47%7,581
Barber 1,87262.53%91430.53%1685.61%351.17%50.17%95832.00%2,994
Barton 9,14766.03%3,66326.44%7935.72%2131.54%360.26%5,48439.59%13,852
Bourbon 4,26359.22%2,60536.19%2513.49%660.92%140.19%1,65823.03%7,199
Brown 3,59867.61%1,37025.74%2865.37%571.07%110.21%2,22841.86%5,322
Butler 10,21055.33%6,87537.26%1,0155.50%3281.78%250.14%3,33518.07%18,453
Chase 1,07366.94%41325.76%925.74%211.31%40.25%66041.17%1,603
Chautauqua 1,56671.60%54324.83%572.61%150.69%60.27%1,02346.78%2,187
Cherokee 5,29654.81%3,96941.08%2822.92%870.90%280.29%1,32713.73%9,662
Cheyenne 1,33073.89%35819.89%814.50%251.39%60.33%97254.00%1,800
Clark 90163.59%43030.35%674.73%171.20%20.14%47133.24%1,417
Clay 3,44973.90%93219.97%2174.65%440.94%250.54%2,51753.93%4,667
Cloud 3,58161.56%1,79330.82%3445.91%691.19%300.52%1,78830.74%5,817
Coffey 2,49169.16%93826.04%1283.55%381.05%70.19%1,55343.11%3,602
Comanche 87765.45%39329.33%503.73%141.04%60.45%48436.12%1,340
Cowley 8,74957.14%5,47435.75%8665.66%1961.28%270.18%3,27521.39%15,312
Crawford 8,05847.81%7,65845.43%8475.03%2271.35%650.39%4002.37%16,855
Decatur 1,64272.98%44319.69%1255.56%281.24%120.53%1,19953.29%2,250
Dickinson 5,65467.64%2,10825.22%4695.61%871.04%410.49%3,54642.42%8,359
Doniphan 2,52367.84%1,00126.92%1463.93%411.10%80.22%1,52240.92%3,719
Douglas 14,10649.01%9,36032.52%4,77016.57%4711.64%770.27%4,74616.49%28,784
Edwards 1,40963.93%61627.95%1275.76%462.09%60.27%79335.98%2,204
Elk 1,28069.68%48226.24%542.94%170.93%40.22%79843.44%1,837
Ellis 5,63452.54%3,94036.74%9238.61%2111.97%160.15%1,69415.80%10,724
Ellsworth 2,15565.90%88627.09%1675.11%571.74%50.15%1,26938.81%3,270
Finney 4,83158.59%2,68932.61%5316.44%1792.17%160.19%2,14225.98%8,246
Ford 5,68658.86%3,19433.06%6226.44%1411.46%180.19%2,49225.79%9,661
Franklin 5,52562.73%2,72630.95%4324.90%1171.33%80.09%2,79931.78%8,808
Geary 3,53456.06%2,35737.39%3325.27%681.08%130.21%1,17718.67%6,304
Gove 1,26371.11%39622.30%915.12%221.24%40.23%86748.82%1,776
Graham 1,45070.90%47323.13%984.79%170.83%70.34%97747.78%2,045
Grant 1,71166.01%68326.35%1505.79%441.70%40.15%1,02839.66%2,592
Gray 1,31063.68%58328.34%1235.98%371.80%40.19%72735.34%2,057
Greeley 60063.36%23524.82%858.98%232.43%40.42%36538.54%947
Greenwood 2,68564.62%1,24129.87%1704.09%400.96%190.46%1,44434.75%4,155
Hamilton 88964.65%40229.24%664.80%161.16%20.15%48735.42%1,375
Harper 2,25464.18%99028.19%1825.18%812.31%50.14%1,26435.99%3,512
Harvey 7,04554.56%4,17332.32%1,35610.50%3022.34%360.28%2,87222.24%12,912
Haskell 1,01467.65%37424.95%845.60%231.53%40.27%64042.70%1,499
Hodgeman 83166.16%33926.99%695.49%141.11%30.24%49239.17%1,256
Jackson 3,21163.33%1,53730.32%2344.62%651.28%230.45%1,67433.02%5,070
Jefferson 4,04664.60%1,77628.36%3645.81%661.05%110.18%2,27036.24%6,263
Jewell 2,07472.80%57820.29%1535.37%391.37%50.18%1,49652.51%2,849
Johnson 78,04862.95%33,21026.79%10,9478.83%1,3181.06%4600.37%44,83836.16%123,983
Kearny 92466.38%37526.94%624.45%241.72%70.50%54939.44%1,392
Kingman 2,61063.63%1,13327.62%2866.97%711.73%20.05%1,47736.01%4,102
Kiowa 1,43372.16%43822.05%884.43%251.26%20.10%99550.10%1,986
Labette 5,24452.86%3,94739.78%5885.93%1161.17%260.26%1,29713.07%9,921
Lane 92467.54%32123.46%1007.31%211.54%20.15%60344.08%1,368
Leavenworth 9,15754.98%6,35438.15%9555.73%1400.84%500.30%2,80316.83%16,656
Lincoln 1,68572.16%52822.61%964.11%220.94%40.17%1,15749.55%2,335
Linn 2,40764.88%1,15731.19%1032.78%320.86%110.30%1,25033.69%3,710
Logan 1,26172.89%35820.69%663.82%362.08%90.52%90352.20%1,730
Lyon 8,43157.94%4,68032.16%1,2168.36%1981.36%260.18%3,75125.78%14,551
McPherson 6,84358.83%3,34028.72%1,22210.51%1711.47%550.47%3,50330.12%11,631
Marion 3,96064.39%1,56925.51%4887.93%1141.85%190.31%2,39138.88%6,150
Marshall 4,12767.69%1,55525.50%3305.41%641.05%210.34%2,57242.18%6,097
Meade 1,61871.66%48221.35%1215.36%341.51%30.13%1,13650.31%2,258
Miami 4,74057.10%3,07137.00%3684.43%1041.25%180.22%1,66920.11%8,301
Mitchell 2,82171.36%87622.16%1974.98%350.89%240.61%1,94549.20%3,953
Montgomery 10,85664.18%5,28231.23%4882.89%1540.91%1350.80%5,57432.95%16,915
Morris 1,93365.55%81027.47%1665.63%331.12%70.24%1,12338.08%2,949
Morton 1,15769.61%41424.91%714.27%160.96%40.24%74344.71%1,662
Nemaha 3,54664.99%1,60029.33%2434.45%561.03%110.20%1,94635.67%5,456
Neosho 4,61357.11%2,92336.19%4325.35%891.10%200.25%1,69020.92%8,077
Ness 1,65767.49%61625.09%1365.54%401.63%60.24%1,04142.40%2,455
Norton 2,62575.50%66619.15%1514.34%260.75%90.26%1,95956.34%3,477
Osage 3,81760.36%2,08833.02%3305.22%741.17%150.24%1,72927.34%6,324
Osborne 2,18873.32%62020.78%1254.19%361.21%150.50%1,56852.55%2,984
Ottawa 2,11871.87%63021.38%1505.09%411.39%80.27%1,48850.49%2,947
Pawnee 2,17058.79%1,18432.08%2817.61%521.41%40.11%98626.71%3,691
Phillips 2,73174.48%74820.40%1433.90%350.95%100.27%1,98354.08%3,667
Pottawatomie 3,89563.40%1,72428.06%4447.23%600.98%210.34%2,17135.34%6,144
Pratt 2,86661.20%1,36929.23%3297.03%952.03%240.51%1,49731.97%4,683
Rawlins 1,52473.41%42720.57%874.19%321.54%60.29%1,09752.84%2,076
Reno 13,80452.85%9,61536.81%2,2258.52%4181.60%590.23%4,18916.04%26,121
Republic 3,03173.57%85020.63%1834.44%451.09%110.27%2,18152.94%4,120
Rice 3,21157.67%1,84733.17%4267.65%751.35%90.16%1,36424.50%5,568
Riley 8,90452.94%5,22431.06%2,44314.53%2011.20%460.27%3,68021.88%16,818
Rooks 2,27571.38%72522.75%1444.52%371.16%60.19%1,55048.64%3,187
Rush 1,84071.54%55721.66%1445.60%240.93%70.27%1,28349.88%2,572
Russell 3,24173.04%91020.51%2295.16%511.15%60.14%2,33152.54%4,437
Saline 12,75860.27%6,38230.15%1,7068.06%2871.36%360.17%6,37630.12%21,169
Scott 1,82975.64%45618.86%994.09%301.24%40.17%1,37356.78%2,418
Sedgwick 75,31751.79%55,10537.89%10,2227.03%3,6612.52%1,1260.77%20,21213.90%145,431
Seward 4,38570.83%1,46023.58%2504.04%851.37%110.18%2,92547.25%6,191
Shawnee 36,29053.54%24,85236.67%5,5248.15%8051.19%3050.45%11,43816.88%67,776
Sheridan 1,20271.00%39123.10%684.02%241.42%80.47%81147.90%1,693
Sherman 2,31568.86%77923.17%2156.40%431.28%100.30%1,53645.69%3,362
Smith 2,41571.70%71921.35%1835.43%481.43%30.09%1,69650.36%3,368
Stafford 1,86562.67%87229.30%1846.18%451.51%100.34%99333.37%2,976
Stanton 67267.74%23123.29%626.25%222.22%50.50%44144.46%992
Stevens 1,50272.04%47822.93%673.21%331.58%50.24%1,02449.11%2,085
Sumner 6,03857.53%3,76135.83%4864.63%1901.81%210.20%2,27721.69%10,496
Thomas 2,78966.37%1,04524.87%2696.40%912.17%80.19%1,74441.50%4,202
Trego 1,34065.43%52325.54%1386.74%422.05%50.24%81739.89%2,048
Wabaunsee 2,25567.98%85325.72%1735.22%240.72%120.36%1,40242.27%3,317
Wallace 81178.28%16716.12%363.47%171.64%50.48%64462.16%1,036
Washington 3,05874.90%78419.20%1954.78%330.81%130.32%2,27455.69%4,083
Wichita 88069.95%30324.09%604.77%100.79%50.40%57745.87%1,258
Wilson 3,32869.32%1,20525.10%2084.33%450.94%150.31%2,12344.22%4,801
Woodson 1,43565.56%64629.51%894.07%160.73%30.14%78936.04%2,189
Wyandotte 23,01238.21%32,76354.40%3,0185.01%7751.29%6551.09%-9,751-16.19%60,223
Totals566,81257.85%326,15033.29%68,2316.96%14,4701.48%4,1320.42%240,66224.56%979,795

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