1984 United States presidential election in Maine

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1984 United States presidential election in Maine
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  1980 November 6, 1984 1988  
  Ronald Reagan presidential portrait (cropped).jpg Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped).jpg
Nominee Ronald Reagan Walter Mondale
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California Minnesota
Running mate George H. W. Bush Geraldine Ferraro
Electoral vote40
Popular vote336,500214,515
Percentage60.83%38.78%

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President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1984 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1984. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Maine was won by incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Mondale ran with Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency.

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The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Maine, with more than 99% of the electorate voting either Democratic or Republican, and only four parties appearing on the ballot. [1] Every county in Maine voted for Reagan by a double-digit margin, a strong performance in a historically Republican-leaning state that had trended Democratic since the 1960s. Reagan became the first Republican to win industrialized, Catholic French-Canadian Androscoggin County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. [2]

Even amidst a national Republican landslide, Maine weighed in as almost 4% more Republican than the national average. This election marked something of a high water mark for Republicans in Maine; no candidate of either party has since come close to Reagan's vote share or margin, and the state at-large has subsequently only voted Republican once more (in the following election of 1988).

Results

1984 United States presidential election in Maine
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent)336,50060.83%4
Democratic Walter Mondale 214,51538.78%0
Communist Party Gus Hall 1,2920.23%0
New Alliance Party Dennis Serrette 7550.14%0
Write-Ins820.01%0
Totals553,144100.0%4

Results by congressional district

Reagan won both of Maine's congressional districts. [3]

DistrictReaganMondaleRepresentative
1st 59.69%39.95% John R. McKernan Jr.
2nd 62.16%37.47% Olympia Snowe

Results by county

CountyRonald Reagan [4]
Republican
Walter Mondale [4]
Democratic
Gus Hall [4]
Communist
Various candidates [4]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%#%
Androscoggin 26,90457.24%19,88542.31%1010.21%1100.23%7,01914.93%47,000
Aroostook 21,83763.59%12,34835.96%950.28%580.17%9,48927.63%34,338
Cumberland 65,84256.75%49,89443.00%1900.16%1000.09%15,94813.75%116,026
Franklin 8,33062.40%4,95437.11%400.30%250.19%3,37625.29%13,349
Hancock 14,66065.12%7,76434.49%530.24%340.15%6,89630.63%22,511
Kennebec 31,75359.70%21,18339.82%1730.33%820.15%10,57019.88%53,191
Knox 11,31165.00%6,02434.62%470.27%190.11%5,28730.38%17,401
Lincoln 10,31267.68%4,86931.96%290.19%260.17%5,44335.72%15,236
Oxford 15,40864.34%8,43035.20%670.28%430.18%6,97829.14%23,948
Penobscot 40,40362.11%24,44537.58%1120.17%940.14%15,95824.53%65,054
Piscataquis 5,42763.98%3,01635.56%240.28%150.18%2,41128.42%8,482
Sagadahoc 9,22263.51%5,20835.87%640.44%260.18%4,01427.64%14,520
Somerset 13,01062.64%7,65736.86%660.32%380.18%5,35325.78%20,771
Waldo 8,81462.22%5,28937.34%400.28%230.16%3,52524.88%14,166
Washington 9,71364.41%5,30835.20%310.21%290.19%4,40529.21%15,081
York 43,55460.43%28,24139.19%1600.22%1150.16%15,31321.24%72,070
Totals336,50060.83%214,51538.78%1,2920.23%8370.15%121,98522.05%553,144

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References

  1. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  2. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 218-219 ISBN   0786422173
  3. 1984 General Election: Presidential (Report). Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions. 1984.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Our Campaigns; ME US Presidential Race; November 06, 1084