1984 United States presidential election in Utah

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1984 United States presidential election in Utah

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Nominee Ronald Reagan Walter Mondale Party Republican Democratic Home state California Minnesota Running mate George H. W. Bush Geraldine Ferraro Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 469,105 155,369 Percentage 74.50% 24.68%

County Results Reagan   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% The 1984 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Utah 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 incumbent Vice President and 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. The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Utah, with just over 99% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties, [1] though several other parties appeared on the ballot. Reagan posted the highest vote share of any nominee in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1896, and carried every county in the state. Reagan's best county was Box Elder County, although he broke 80% in 15 counties. Mondale's best county was Carbon County, the only one in which he managed to hold Reagan to a plurality, rather than a majority win. Mondale did make gains vis-à-vis Jimmy Carter of over ten percent in eastern Daggett County and San Juan County, probably related to a general trend in this election of Native American voters towards Mondale. [2] The highly populated Salt Lake County contributed about half of the Democratic votes produced by Utah, but still was won decisively by Reagan by 40 points, in what was, overall, a very solid statewide victory. Reagan won a resounding 50-point landslide victory in Utah, his strongest victory in the nation both by vote share and by margin. For the third election in a row, Utah gave the Republican nominee his highest vote share in the nation, a trend that began in 1976 [3] and would continue through 1988, and intermittently through 2012. Reagan's strength in Utah was part of a broader phenomenon of the growing importance of the Mountain West as a Republican base; this region had been a swing region for the sixty years following James Weaver's Populist run in 1892, solidly backing William Jennings Bryan in his narrow 1896 defeat as well as Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman in their narrow 1916 and 1948 wins, respectively. The Mountain West began trending Republican in close elections in 1960, however, when Nixon carried all but two states in the region (New Mexico and Nevada). Jimmy Carter's presidency accelerated the trend, with his administration's policies on water and energy being widely perceived as a 'war on the West’. [4] In 1980, Carter underperformed even his low national percentage throughout the West. [5] Reagan's popularity in the West increased in 1984, [6] no Republican nominee has received such strong support in the Mountain West as Reagan did. Enid Greene Mickelsen and Jon Huntsman Jr. were co-directors of Reagan's campaign in the state. [7] David D. Flowers, at age 18, was the youngest presidential elector in history according to the Congressional Research Service. Fowers threatened to vote for Lyndon LaRouche as a faithless elector to protest the electoral college, but chose not to. The other electors were Charles W. Akerlow, Douglas Bischoff, Cathy Arentz, and William A. Stevenson. [8] [9] Results 1984 United States presidential election in Utah Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent) 469,105 74.50% 5 Democratic Walter Mondale 155,369 24.68% 0 Libertarian David Bergland 2,447 0.39% 0 American Party Delmar Dennis 1,345 0.21% 0 Citizen's Party Sonia Johnson 844 0.13% 0 New Alliance Party Dennis Serrette 220 0.03% 0 Communist Party Gus Hall 184 0.03% 0 Socialist Workers Party Melvin Mason 142 0.02% 0 Totals 629,656 100.0% 5 Results by county County Ronald Reagan Republican Walter Mondale Democratic David Bergland [10] Libertarian Delmar Dennis [10] American Various candidates [10] Other parties Margin Total #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % Beaver 1,516 67.95% 708 31.73% 2 0.09% 3 0.13% 2 0.09% 808 36.22% 2,231 Box Elder 13,243 86.65% 1,983 12.98% 24 0.16% 20 0.13% 13 0.09% 11,260 73.67% 15,283 Cache 22,127 83.68% 4,123 15.59% 83 0.31% 48 0.18% 61 0.23% 18,004 68.09% 26,442 Carbon 4,393 49.82% 4,357 49.41% 24 0.27% 22 0.25% 22 0.25% 36 0.41% 8,818 Daggett 296 56.38% 227 43.24% 1 0.19% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 69 13.14% 525 Davis 49,863 80.29% 11,727 18.88% 223 0.36% 193 0.31% 96 0.15% 38,136 61.41% 62,102 Duchesne 4,437 85.16% 746 14.32% 9 0.17% 14 0.27% 4 0.08% 3,691 70.84% 5,210 Emery 3,081 69.41% 1,326 29.87% 6 0.14% 17 0.38% 9 0.20% 1,755 39.54% 4,439 Garfield 1,609 83.15% 315 16.28% 1 0.05% 1 0.05% 9 0.47% 1,294 66.87% 1,935 Grand 2,463 73.15% 876 26.02% 10 0.30% 8 0.24% 10 0.30% 1,587 47.13% 3367 Iron 6,856 83.09% 1,342 16.26% 16 0.19% 24 0.29% 13 0.16% 5,514 66.83% 8,251 Juab 1,902 67.23% 917 32.41% 2 0.07% 4 0.14% 4 0.14% 985 34.82% 2,829 Kane 1,710 85.12% 294 14.63% 2 0.10% 2 0.10% 1 0.05% 1,416 70.49% 2,009 Millard 4,345 78.11% 1,192 21.43% 13 0.23% 11 0.20% 2 0.04% 3,153 56.68% 5,563 Morgan 1,934 79.59% 481 19.79% 9 0.37% 3 0.12% 3 0.12% 1,453 59.80% 2,430 Piute 606 80.05% 151 19.95% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 455 60.10% 757 Rich 797 85.61% 131 14.07% 3 0.32% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 666 71.54% 931 Salt Lake 183,536 69.28% 78,488 29.63% 1,531 0.58% 495 0.19% 876 0.33% 105,048 39.65% 264,926 San Juan 2,598 69.13% 1,145 30.47% 8 0.21% 3 0.08% 4 0.11% 1,453 38.66% 3,758 Sanpete 5,507 81.26% 1,227 18.11% 15 0.22% 22 0.32% 6 0.09% 4,280 63.15% 6,777 Sevier 5,736 83.49% 1,072 15.60% 8 0.12% 49 0.71% 5 0.07% 4,664 67.89% 6,870 Summit 4,093 71.79% 1,539 27.00% 34 0.60% 16 0.28% 19 0.33% 2,554 44.79% 5,701 Tooele 6,478 63.95% 3,584 35.38% 21 0.21% 29 0.29% 18 0.18% 2,894 28.57% 10,130 Uintah 7,337 85.57% 1,186 13.83% 21 0.24% 19 0.22% 11 0.13% 6,151 71.74% 8,574 Utah 72,284 82.61% 14,801 16.91% 176 0.20% 163 0.19% 80 0.09% 57,483 65.70% 87,504 Wasatch 2,789 72.93% 1,015 26.54% 5 0.13% 12 0.31% 3 0.08% 1,774 46.39% 3,824 Washington 12,049 86.21% 1,846 13.21% 23 0.16% 46 0.33% 13 0.09% 10,203 73.00% 13,977 Wayne 930 80.24% 224 19.33% 1 0.09% 2 0.17% 2 0.17% 706 60.91% 1,159 Weber 44,590 70.40% 18,346 28.97% 176 0.28% 119 0.19% 103 0.16% 26,244 41.43% 63,334 Totals 469,105 74.50% 155,369 24.68% 2,447 0.39% 1,345 0.21% 1,390 0.22% 313,736 49.82% 629,656 Analysis At 74.50%, Reagan won Utah with the highest percentage of the vote in any state from the presidential elections since 1984, although fellow Republican Mitt Romney did come close to surpassing that margin when he won this state with 72.62% in 2012. Despite his high margin, at a victory margin of 49.82%, he won the state by a slightly reduced margin than in 1980, when he won Utah by 52.2%. Mondale improved on Jimmy Carter's 1980 margins by over 10% in Daggett County and San Juan County, as well as improving slightly in Morgan County. Reagan improved in Iron County, Garfield County, Piute County, Wayne County, Duchesne County, Weber County, and Summit County. See also United States presidential elections in Utah Presidency of Ronald Reagan References "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved November 11, 2013. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 109 ISBN   0786422173 Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 104, 110, 112, 115, 119, 124, 130 Cannon, Lou (January 9, 1978). "Vice President Embarks on Mission to Mend Western Fences". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved December 31, 2020. 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