United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1980

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1980

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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 14 0 0 Popular vote 1,057,631 1,053,802 382,539 Percentage 41.9% 41.8% 15.2%
County Results   Carter – 50–60%   Carter – <50%   Reagan – <50%   Reagan – 50–60%
President before election Jimmy Carter Democratic Elected President Ronald Reagan Republican

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1980 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 4, 1980 as part of the 1980 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all fifty states and D.C. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Massachusetts was very narrowly carried by the Republican nominee, former Governor Ronald Reagan of California, over incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Independent candidate Congressman John B. Anderson of Illinois.

On election day, Reagan won a plurality of 41.90 percent of the vote in the state to Carter’s 41.75 percent, with Anderson in third at 15.15 percent, giving Reagan a razor-thin margin of 0.1517 percent. This constitutes the fifteenth-smallest percentage margin in any statewide Presidential election since the Civil War, and the smallest since Kennedy won Hawaii by 115 votes in that state’s inaugural Presidential election two decades previously. The only smaller percentage margins since have been Florida (537 votes or 0.009 percent) and New Mexico (361 votes or 0.061 percent) in the controversial 2000 election, and Missouri in 2008, which McCain won by 3,903 votes or 0.1343 percent.