1980 United States presidential election in Arizona

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1980 United States presidential election in Arizona

November 4, 1980

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 vote 6 0 0 Popular vote 529,688 246,843 76,952 Percentage 60.61% 28.24% 8.81%

County Results Reagan   40–50%   50–60%   60–70% Carter   50–60%

President before election Jimmy Carter Democratic Elected President Ronald Reagan Republican

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

Arizona was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan by a landslide of 32%. This result left the state 22.62% more Republican than the nation at-large, a differential greater even than when Barry Goldwater narrowly won his home state during his 1964 landslide defeat, and the most Republican relative to the nation at-large Arizona has ever been since statehood in 1912. Reagan's victory margin was at the time the largest by a Republican, though he would beat his own record four years later. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936 has won Arizona by a larger margin, whilst Carter's share of the popular vote remains the worst ever by a Democrat in Arizona.

Reagan won every county except heavily unionized Greenlee, which would never vote Republican until 2000, in the process duplicating the state's 1972 county map. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election that Apache County has supported the Republican nominee.

Carter's insensitivity to essential issues in the West, especially water development, ensured he would be comfortably beaten in this normally solidly Republican state, which had been the only state no Democrat carried during the dealigned 1960s and 1970s.

Primaries

1980 Arizona Caucus

Candidates	CDs	Delegates
Ted Kennedy	9,738	17
Jimmy Carter (incumbent)	7,592	13
Totals	17,330	30

Results

1980 United States presidential election in Arizona
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Ronald Reagan	529,688	60.61%	6
	Democrat	Jimmy Carter (incumbent)	246,843	28.24%	0
	Independent	John Anderson	76,952	8.81%	0
	Libertarian	Ed Clark	18,784	2.15%	0
	Socialist Workers	Clifton DeBerry	1,110	0.13%	0
	Citizens	Barry Commoner (write-in)	551	0.06%	0
	Communist	Gus Hall (write-in)	25	0.00%	0
	Workers World	Deirdre Griswold (write-in)	2	0.00%	0
Totals			873,945	100.00%	6
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered voters)					44%/78%

Results by county

County	Ronald Reagan Republican		Jimmy Carter Democratic		John B. Anderson Independent		Ed Clark Libertarian		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Apache	5,991	56.55%	3,917	36.97%	495	4.67%	156	1.47%	36	0.34%	2,074	19.58%	10,595
Cochise	13,351	59.48%	7,028	31.31%	1,656	7.38%	375	1.67%	35	0.16%	6,323	28.17%	22,445
Coconino	14,613	55.78%	7,832	29.89%	2,815	10.74%	861	3.29%	78	0.30%	6,781	25.89%	26,199
Gila	7,405	55.27%	5,068	37.82%	656	4.90%	259	1.93%	11	0.08%	2,337	17.45%	13,399
Graham	4,765	59.85%	2,801	35.18%	268	3.37%	121	1.52%	6	0.08%	1,964	24.67%	7,961
Greenlee	1,537	40.64%	2,043	54.02%	150	3.97%	48	1.27%	4	0.11%	-506	-13.38%	3,782
Maricopa	316,287	64.97%	119,752	24.60%	38,975	8.01%	10,825	2.22%	995	0.20%	196,535	40.37%	486,834
Mohave	13,809	68.86%	4,900	24.43%	978	4.88%	342	1.71%	25	0.12%	8,909	44.43%	20,054
Navajo	10,790	63.91%	5,110	30.27%	710	4.21%	248	1.47%	24	0.14%	5,680	33.64%	16,882
Pima	93,055	49.75%	64,418	34.44%	25,294	13.52%	3,944	2.11%	346	0.18%	28,637	15.31%	187,057
Pinal	12,195	52.43%	9,207	39.59%	1,346	5.79%	472	2.03%	38	0.16%	2,988	12.84%	23,258
Santa Cruz	2,674	50.07%	2,089	39.12%	482	9.03%	76	1.42%	19	0.36%	585	10.95%	5,340
Yavapai	19,823	68.37%	6,664	22.98%	1,754	6.05%	711	2.45%	42	0.14%	13,159	45.39%	28,994
Yuma	13,393	63.34%	6,014	28.44%	1,373	6.49%	346	1.64%	19	0.09%	7,379	34.90%	21,145
Totals	529,688	60.61%	246,843	28.24%	76,952	8.81%	18,784	2.15%	1,678	0.19%	282,845	32.37%	873,945

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Apache
• Gila
• Navajo
• Pinal

Electors

Electors were chosen by their party's voters in primary elections held on September 9, 1980.

Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale Democratic Party	Ronald Reagan & George H. W. Bush Republican Party	John B. Anderson & Patrick J. Lucey Independent	Ed Clark & David Koch Libertarian Party
Marian S. Bauhs Ora W. DeConcini Joe Fuchs Marcia G. Imber Jeanne Perpich Mat Wheeler	Karl Eller Laura B. Lowry Jane P. Lynch Myrtle Stella Macy Sam A. Phillips John Scott Van Wyk	Mary Dent Crisp Dorothy Blanch Levin Armando Rivera James Lee Sanders Stewart Lee Udall Jean H. Wilson	Janis Kathleen Blainer Carl Brown Edward R. Carlson John Kannarr James T. Kirk Irene Leitch

Clifton DeBerry & Matilde Zimmermann Socialist Workers Party	Barry Commoner & LaDonna Harris Citizens Party	Gus Hall & Angela Davis Communist Party	Deirdre Griswold & Gavrielle Holmes Workers World Party
Joseph Callahan Alberta J. Dannells Jill Fein Caroline Fowlkes Eleanor Garcia Betsy McDonald	Ed Clay Bob England Lois George Paige Grant Ken Gross Ken Scott	Patricia J. Blawis Alonzo S. Howard John V. Mackoviak Arvilla Padilla Pelix Padilla Jeanne K. Scanlon	Marianne Ditton Jay Evenson Patricia L. Jackson Patricia J. James Paul Teitelbaum Eric Zeiters