1984 United States presidential election in Oregon
November 6, 1984
 
Nominee Ronald Reagan Walter Mondale
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California Minnesota
Running mate George H. W. Bush Geraldine Ferraro
Electoral vote 7 0
Popular vote 685,700 536,479
Percentage 55.91% 43.74%
County Results
President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

 Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1984 United States presidential election in Oregon 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 seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

Oregon 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 Oregon, with the Democratic or Republican parties the only parties appearing on the ballot.[1] The vast majority of counties turned out for Reagan, including the eastern interior and southwestern Rogue Valley. The only exceptions were Lane County in the central west, which had voted Republican in 1980, and three counties along the lower Columbia River, including Portland's highly populated Multnomah County, which has been a Democratic stronghold since last voting for Republican Richard Nixon in 1960.[2]

Oregon weighed in for this election as 3% more Democratic than the national average. To date, it is the last time Oregon has voted for a Republican in a presidential election, and also the last time Lincoln County, Benton County and Hood River County have voted for a Republican presidential nominee. It also marks the last time any presidential candidate won Oregon while carrying the majority of its counties.[2]

No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American Pacific states at large as Reagan did. This is also the most recent election cycle where Oregon sent Republican electors to the Electoral College.

Results

1984 United States presidential election in Oregon
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Ronald Reagan 685,700 55.91% 7
Democratic Walter Mondale 536,479 43.74% 0
Write-Ins 4,348 0.35% 0
Totals 1,226,527 100.0% 7

Results by county

County Ronald Wilson Reagan
Republican		 Walter Frederick Mondale
Democratic		 Various candidates
Write-ins		 Margin Total votes cast
#  % #  % #  % #  %
Baker 5,204 66.62% 2,591 33.17% 17 0.22% 2,613 33.45% 7,812
Benton 17,836 52.36% 16,073 47.19% 153 0.45% 1,763 5.18% 34,062
Clackamas 68,630 59.08% 47,254 40.68% 289 0.25% 21,376 18.40% 116,173
Clatsop 7,522 49.86% 7,525 49.88% 38 0.25% -3 -0.02% 15,085
Columbia 7,811 48.50% 8,219 51.03% 75 0.47% -408 -2.53% 16,105
Coos 13,637 49.88% 13,582 49.68% 120 0.44% 55 0.20% 27,339
Crook 3,773 62.22% 2,268 37.40% 23 0.38% 1,505 24.82% 6,064
Curry 5,363 60.84% 3,423 38.83% 29 0.33% 1,940 22.01% 8,815
Deschutes 19,323 62.20% 11,671 37.57% 72 0.23% 7,652 24.63% 31,066
Douglas 25,243 63.11% 14,609 36.53% 144 0.36% 10,634 26.59% 39,996
Gilliam 700 65.24% 369 34.39% 4 0.37% 331 30.85% 1,073
Grant 2,695 66.69% 1,344 33.26% 2 0.05% 1,351 33.43% 4,041
Harney 2,197 62.56% 1,290 36.73% 25 0.71% 907 25.83% 3,512
Hood River 4,531 59.85% 3,022 39.92% 18 0.24% 1,509 19.93% 7,571
Jackson 37,895 61.76% 23,230 37.86% 234 0.38% 14,665 23.90% 61,359
Jefferson 3,283 62.94% 1,920 36.81% 13 0.25% 1,363 26.13% 5,216
Josephine 19,470 69.38% 8,539 30.43% 53 0.19% 10,931 38.95% 28,062
Klamath 17,686 69.81% 7,575 29.90% 74 0.29% 10,111 39.91% 25,335
Lake 2,466 67.51% 1,184 32.41% 3 0.08% 1,282 35.09% 3,653
Lane 61,493 48.86% 63,999 50.85% 360 0.29% -2,506 -1.99% 125,852
Lincoln 9,110 51.17% 8,637 48.51% 57 0.32% 473 2.66% 17,804
Linn 23,463 59.10% 16,161 40.71% 75 0.19% 7,302 18.39% 39,699
Malheur 8,441 76.24% 2,611 23.58% 19 0.17% 5,830 52.66% 11,071
Marion 54,535 59.79% 36,440 39.95% 234 0.26% 18,095 19.84% 91,209
Morrow 2,130 62.70% 1,254 36.91% 13 0.38% 876 25.79% 3,397
Multnomah 119,932 45.17% 144,179 54.30% 1,428 0.54% -24,247 -9.13% 265,539
Polk 12,678 59.15% 8,709 40.64% 45 0.21% 3,969 18.52% 21,432
Sherman 828 67.48% 398 32.44% 1 0.08% 430 35.04% 1,227
Tillamook 5,267 51.10% 4,988 48.39% 53 0.51% 279 2.71% 10,308
Umatilla 14,211 63.12% 8,246 36.63% 57 0.25% 5,965 26.49% 22,514
Union 6,645 61.36% 4,134 38.18% 50 0.46% 2,511 23.19% 10,829
Wallowa 2,619 68.36% 1,204 31.43% 8 0.21% 1,415 36.94% 3,831
Wasco 6,905 55.36% 5,526 44.31% 41 0.33% 1,379 11.06% 12,472
Washington 75,877 62.76% 44,602 36.89% 417 0.34% 31,275 25.87% 120,896
Wheeler 504 66.58% 253 33.42% 251 33.16% 757
Yamhill 15,797 62.31% 9,450 37.28% 104 0.41% 6,347 25.04% 25,351
Totals685,70055.91%536,47943.74%4,3480.35%149,22112.17%1,226,527

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1984 Presidential General election Results – Oregon". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
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