1984 United States presidential election in Arizona

1984 United States presidential election in Arizona

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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 7 0
Popular vote 681,416 333,854
Percentage 66.42% 32.54%


President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1984 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 6, 1984. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. State voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President of the United States. Arizona 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 Arizona, with just under 99% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties, and only four parties appearing on the ballot.[1] Nearly every county in Arizona voted with majorities for Reagan, a particularly strong turnout even in this typically conservative-leaning state. Reagan's win in Arizona was largely the result of a lopsided 45% victory margin in Maricopa County, the state's most populated county and home to Phoenix. Mondale did best in predominantly Native American Apache County, which was typical of his gains vis-à-vis Jimmy Carter in Native American counties throughout the nation; Reagan thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county.[2] Mondale also won heavily unionized copper-mining Greenlee County; albeit his performance there was the worst by a Democrat since statehood.

Arizona weighed in for this election as sixteen points more Republican than the national average. Reagan won the election in Arizona with a decisive 34-point landslide. No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American West at large as Reagan did.

Results

1984 United States presidential election in Arizona[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent) 681,416 66.42% 7
Democratic Walter Mondale 333,854 32.54% 0
Libertarian David Bergland 10,585 1.03% 0
Independent Larry Harmon (write-in) 21 0.00% 0
Citizen's Party Sonia Johnson (write-in) 18 0.00% 0
Independent Robert B. Winn (write-in) 3 0.00% 0
Totals 1,025,897 100.00% 7

Results by county

County[3] Ronald Reagan
Republican
Walter Mondale
Democratic
David Bergland
Libertarian
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Apache 5,638 43.26% 7,277 55.84% 117 0.90% 0 0.00% -1,639 -12.58% 13,032
Cochise 16,405 62.25% 9,671 36.70% 279 1.06% 0 0.00% 6,734 25.55% 26,355
Coconino 17,581 59.13% 11,528 35.77% 622 2.09% 4 0.01% 6,053 20.36% 29,735
Gila 8,543 56.02% 6,509 42.68% 197 1.29% 0 0.00% 2,034 13.34% 15,249
Graham 5,247 62.35% 3,080 36.60% 89 1.06% 0 0.00% 2,167 25.75% 8,416
Greenlee 1,801 47.58% 1,963 51.86% 21 0.55% 0 0.00% -162 -4.28% 3,785
La Paz 2,757 63.92% 1,502 34.82% 54 1.25% 0 0.00% 1,255 29.10% 4,313
Maricopa 411,902 71.98% 154,833 27.06% 5,509 0.96% 29 0.01% 257,069 44.92% 572,273
Mohave 17,364 69.26% 7,436 29.66% 272 1.08% 0 0.00% 9,928 39.60% 25,072
Navajo 11,379 58.12% 8,017 40.95% 182 0.93% 0 0.00% 3,362 17.17% 19,578
Pima 123,830 56.90% 91,585 42.09% 2,193 1.01% 4 0.00% 32,245 14.81% 217,612
Pinal 16,464 57.53% 11,923 41.66% 232 0.81% 0 0.00% 4,541 15.87% 28,619
Santa Cruz 3,855 60.34% 2,463 38.55% 71 1.11% 0 0.00% 1,392 21.79% 6,389
Yavapai 24,802 70.89% 9,609 27.46% 574 1.64% 3 0.01% 15,193 43.43% 34,988
Yuma 13,848 67.61% 6,458 31.53% 173 0.84% 2 0.01% 7,390 36.08% 20,481
Totals 681,416 66.42% 333,854 32.54% 10,585 1.03% 42 0.00% 347,562 33.88% 1,025,897

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Electors

Electors were chosen by their party's voters in primary elections held on September 11, 1984.[4]

Walter Mondale
& Geraldine Ferraro
Democratic Party
Ronald Reagan
& George H. W. Bush
Republican Party
David Bergland
& James A. Lewis
Libertarian Party
Larry Harmon
& Milton R. Polland
Independent
Sonia Johnson
& Richard Walton
Citizens Party
Robert B. Winn
Independent
  • Francis J. Bronski
  • Michael A. Colletto
  • Jennie Cox
  • Rebecca W. Gaspar
  • Estevan A. Rodriguez
  • C. Wadzita
  • Bernetta L. Yost
  • Jim Click
  • Lewis W. Cooley
  • Alan A. Cullman
  • Peter D. Herder
  • Pattie Lewis
  • Harry K. Mehrtens
  • Ingo Radicke
  • Buck Crouch
  • Mimi Esser
  • Murray S. Feldstein
  • Kathy L. Harrer
  • Kim David Horner
  • Herb Johnson
  • Suzanne Kannarr
  • Maryann Carpenter
  • Donald P. Lincoln
  • Dora Diane Mata
  • Eileen Ransdell
  • Jerry M. Sawyer
  • Nancy L. Sherwood-Blight
  • George R. Wendell Sr.
  • Lillian Elizabeth Albin
  • Teresa J. Atkins
  • Martha Suzanne Bailey
  • Carolyn N. Berg
  • Naida L. Brooks
  • Judith M. Geunther
  • Marcia Niemann
  • Connie Jean Dowd
  • Judith Ann Eberle
  • Bonnie Rose Everson
  • Deborah Jo Heywood
  • Robert Eugene Heywood
  • Lisa Jeannean Holland
  • Natalie Virginia Moore

See also

References

  1. ^ "1984 Presidential General Election Results – Arizona". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  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
  3. ^ a b "State of Arizona Official Canvass General Election - November 6, 1984". Arizona Secretary of State. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  4. ^ "State of Arizona Official Canvass Primary Election - September 11, 1984". Arizona Secretary of State. Retrieved July 30, 2024.