1980 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
1980 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
County Results
Reagan
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
Carter
40-50%
The 1980 United States presidential election in Washington was held on November 4, 1980 as part of the 1980 United States presidential election . State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Republican candidate Ronald Reagan won the state of Washington with 49.66 percent of the vote. During the previous election in 1976 , Reagan, who was not on the ballot in any of the fifty states, received one of Washington's electoral votes by faithless elector Mike Padden .
Reagan won every county in the state except Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties , neither of which ever voted Republican between 1956 and 2012 . As of the 2020 presidential election [update] , Reagan's 1980 effort remains the last Republican win in Jefferson County and was the last in Cowlitz County until 2016. [ 1]
Third-party candidate John B. Anderson did well in Western Washington , gaining many voters from disaffected major-party supporters and exceeding 14 percent of the vote in Kitsap and San Juan Counties . Anderson was less successful east of the Cascades, apart from college-influenced Whitman County . 1980 marks the last time in which Washington state voted more Republican than the nation at-large.[ 2]
Results
Results by county
County
Ronald Reagan Republican
Jimmy Carter Democratic
John B. Anderson Independent
Various candidates Other parties
Margin
Total votes cast[ 3]
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
Adams
3,248
68.01%
1,223
25.61%
255
5.34%
50
1.05%
2,025
42.40%
4,776
Asotin
3,275
49.18%
2,724
40.91%
539
8.09%
121
1.82%
551
8.27%
6,659
Benton
28,728
64.68%
11,561
26.03%
3,301
7.43%
823
1.85%
17,167
38.65%
44,413
Chelan
11,299
56.92%
6,483
32.66%
1,608
8.10%
460
2.32%
4,816
24.26%
19,850
Clallam
11,515
51.65%
8,029
36.01%
2,172
9.74%
580
2.60%
3,486
15.64%
22,296
Clark
33,223
46.10%
30,584
42.43%
6,445
8.94%
1,823
2.53%
2,639
3.67%
72,075
Columbia
1,349
64.67%
587
28.14%
119
5.70%
31
1.49%
762
36.53%
2,086
Cowlitz
13,154
45.93%
12,560
43.86%
2,336
8.16%
589
2.06%
594
2.07%
28,639
Douglas
5,171
59.38%
2,833
32.53%
564
6.48%
141
1.62%
2,338
26.85%
8,709
Ferry
1,108
52.76%
802
38.19%
127
6.05%
63
3.00%
306
14.57%
2,100
Franklin
7,327
61.26%
3,719
31.09%
699
5.84%
216
1.81%
3,608
30.17%
11,961
Garfield
875
57.60%
509
33.51%
122
8.03%
13
0.86%
366
24.09%
1,519
Grant
11,152
61.29%
5,673
31.18%
1,091
6.00%
280
1.54%
5,479
30.11%
18,196
Grays Harbor
10,226
40.19%
11,290
44.37%
3,267
12.84%
661
2.60%
-1,064
-4.18%
25,444
Island
10,926
58.87%
5,422
29.21%
1,800
9.70%
411
2.21%
5,504
29.66%
18,559
Jefferson
3,645
44.61%
3,279
40.13%
876
10.72%
370
4.53%
366
4.48%
8,170
King
272,567
45.42%
235,046
39.16%
76,119
12.68%
16,425
2.74%
37,521
6.26%
600,157
Kitsap
29,420
48.79%
20,893
34.65%
8,525
14.14%
1,458
2.42%
8,527
14.14%
60,296
Kittitas
5,359
49.86%
4,075
37.91%
1,066
9.92%
248
2.31%
1,284
11.95%
10,748
Klickitat
3,113
49.54%
2,596
41.31%
423
6.73%
152
2.42%
517
8.23%
6,284
Lewis
13,636
59.94%
6,962
30.60%
1,603
7.05%
548
2.41%
6,674
29.34%
22,749
Lincoln
3,324
62.28%
1,597
29.92%
357
6.69%
59
1.11%
1,727
32.36%
5,337
Mason
6,745
49.10%
5,241
38.15%
1,353
9.85%
398
2.90%
1,504
10.95%
13,737
Okanogan
6,460
51.71%
4,634
37.09%
1,030
8.24%
369
2.95%
1,826
14.62%
12,493
Pacific
3,132
39.09%
3,727
46.52%
945
11.79%
208
2.60%
-595
-7.43%
8,012
Pend Oreille
2,136
55.70%
1,399
36.48%
221
5.76%
79
2.06%
737
19.22%
3,835
Pierce
90,247
51.13%
64,444
36.51%
18,345
10.39%
3,475
1.97%
25,803
14.62%
176,511
San Juan
2,363
46.97%
1,666
33.11%
728
14.47%
274
5.45%
697
13.86%
5,031
Skagit
15,520
50.68%
11,299
36.90%
2,854
9.32%
950
3.10%
4,221
13.78%
30,623
Skamania
1,416
45.75%
1,373
44.36%
218
7.04%
88
2.84%
43
1.39%
3,095
Snohomish
66,153
48.68%
52,003
38.26%
14,465
10.64%
3,286
2.42%
14,150
10.42%
135,907
Spokane
78,096
55.51%
49,263
35.02%
11,258
8.00%
2,068
1.47%
28,833
20.49%
140,685
Stevens
7,094
61.53%
3,584
31.08%
601
5.21%
251
2.18%
3,510
30.45%
11,530
Thurston
26,369
48.10%
20,508
37.41%
5,993
10.93%
1,953
3.56%
5,861
10.69%
54,823
Wahkiakum
828
46.57%
751
42.24%
148
8.32%
51
2.87%
77
4.33%
1,778
Walla Walla
11,223
59.14%
5,825
30.70%
1,591
8.38%
338
1.78%
5,398
28.44%
18,977
Whatcom
21,371
46.40%
18,430
40.02%
4,906
10.65%
1,350
2.93%
2,941
6.38%
46,057
Whitman
8,636
50.73%
5,726
33.63%
2,331
13.69%
331
1.94%
2,910
17.10%
17,024
Yakima
33,815
55.21%
21,873
35.71%
4,672
7.63%
893
1.46%
11,942
19.50%
61,253
Totals
865,244
49.66%
650,193
37.32%
185,073
10.62%
41,884
2.40%
215,051
12.34%
1,742,394
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
See also
References