Electoral history of Ronald Reagan

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Electoral history of Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States and 33rd Governor of California:

Republican primary for Governor of California, 1966^[1]:

• Ronald Reagan - 1,417,623 (64.62%)
• George Christopher - 675,683 (30.80%)
• Warren N. Dorn - 44,812 (2.04%)
• William Penn Patrick - 40,887 (1.86%)
• Joseph R. Maxwell - 7,052 (0.32%)
• Sam Yorty (write-in) - 5,993 (0.27%)
• Pat Brown (inc.) (write-in) - 1,700 (0.08%)

Democratic primary for Governor of California, 1966^[2]:

• Pat Brown (inc.) - 1,355,262 (51.91%)
• Sam Yorty - 981,088 (37.58%)
• Carlton Benjamin Goodlett - 95,476 (3.66%)
• Wallace J. Duffy - 77,029 (2.95%)
• Dale Alexander - 43,453 (1.66%)
• Ronald Reagan (write-in) - 27,422 (1.05%)
• Ingram W. Goad - 18,088 (0.69%)

California gubernatorial election, 1966:

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Counties Carried
Ronald Reagan	Republican	3,742,913	57.6	55
Pat Brown(i)	Democratic	2,749,174	42.3	3
Others		11,358	0.2	-
		6,503,445

1968 Republican presidential primaries

• Popular vote^[3]:
  • Ronald Reagan - 1,696,632 (37.93%)
  • Richard Nixon - 1,679,443 (37.54%)
  • James A. Rhodes - 614,492 (13.74%)
  • Nelson A. Rockefeller - 164,340 (3.67%)
  • Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%)
  • Eugene McCarthy (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%)
  • Harold Stassen - 31,655 (0.71%)
  • John Volpe - 31,465 (0.70%)
  • Others - 21,456 (0.51%)
  • George Wallace (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%)
  • Robert Kennedy (write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%)
  • Hubert Humphrey (write-in) - 5,698 (0.13)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%)
  • George Romney - 4,447 (0.10%)
  • Raymond P. Shafer - 1,223 (0.03%)
  • William W. Scranton - 724 (0.02%)
  • Charles H. Percy - 689 (0.02%)
  • Barry M. Goldwater - 598 (0.01%)
  • John V. Lindsay - 591 (0.01%)

• States carried^[4]:
  • Nixon - 9
  • Reagan - 1
  • Rhodes - 1
  • Rockefeller - 1

1968 Republican National Convention:

The Republican Convention Talley

President	(before switches)	(after switches)	Vice President
Richard M. Nixon	692	1238	Spiro T. Agnew	1119
Nelson Rockefeller	277	93	George Romney	186
Ronald Reagan	182	2	John V. Lindsay	10
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes	55	—	Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke	1
Michigan Governor George Romney	50	—	James A. Rhodes	1
New Jersey Senator Clifford Case	22	—	Not Voting	16
Kansas Senator Frank Carlson	20	—
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller	18	—	-
Hawaii Senator Hiram Fong	14	-	-
Harold Stassen	2	—
New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay	1	—	-

California gubernatorial election, 1970

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ronald Reagan(i)	Republican	3,439,174	52.8
Jesse M. Unruh	Democratic	2,938,607	45.1
Ricardo Romo	Peace & Freedom	65,954	1.0
William K. Shearer	American Independent	65,847	1.0
		6,509,549

1976 Republican presidential primaries

• Popular vote^[5]:
  • Gerald Ford (inc.) - 5,529,899 (53.29%)
  • Ronald Reagan - 4,760,222 (45.88%)
  • Unpledged - 34,717 (0.34%)

• States carried^[6]:
  • Ford - 27
  • Reagan - 23

1976 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)^[7]:

• Gerald Ford (inc.) - 1,187 (52.57%)
• Ronald Reagan - 1,070 (47.39%)
• Elliot Richardson - 1 (0.04%)

1976 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally)^[8]:

• Bob Dole - 1,921 (85.04%)
• Abstaining - 103 (4.56%)
• Jesse Helms - 103 (4.56%)
• Ronald Reagan - 27 (1.20%)
• Phil Crane - 23 (1.02%)
• John Grady - 19 (0.84%)
• Louis Frey - 9 (0.40%)
• Anne Armstrong - 6 (0.27%)
• Howard Baker - 6 (0.27%)
• William F. Buckley - 4 (0.18%)
• John B. Connally - 4 (0.18%)
• David C. Treen - 4 (0.18%)
• Alan Steelman - 3 (0.13%)
• Edmund Bauman - 2 (0.09%)
• Bill Brock - 2 (0.09%)
• Paul Laxalt - 2 (0.09%)
• Elliot Richardson - 2 (0.09%)
• Richard Schweiker - 2 (0.09%)
• William E. Simon - 2 (0.09%)
• Jack Wellborn - 2 (0.09%)
• James Allen - 1 (0.04%)
• Ray Barnhardt - 1 (0.04%)
• George H. W. Bush - 1 (0.04%)
• Pete Domenici - 1 (0.04%)
• James B. Edwards - 1 (0.04%)
• Frank S. Glenn - 1 (0.04%)
• David Keane - 1 (0.04%)
• James McClure - 1 (0.04%)
• Nancy Palm - 1 (0.04%)
• Donald Rumsfeld - 1 (0.04%)
• John W. Sears - 1 (0.04%)
• Roger Staubach - 1 (0.04%)
• Steve Symms - 1 (0.04%)

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	RM's Electoral Vote
			Count	Pct
James Earl Carter, Jr.	Democratic	Georgia	40,831,881	50.1%	297 (23 states and D.C.)	Walter Frederick Mondale	Minnesota	297 (23 states and D.C.)
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.	Republican	Michigan	39,148,634	48.0%	240 (27 states)	Robert Joseph Dole	Kansas	241
Ronald Wilson Reagan	Republican	California	—(a)	—(a)	1 (faithless elector)
Eugene McCarthy	(none)	Minnesota	740,460	0.9%	0	(b)	(b)	0
Roger MacBride	Libertarian	Vermont	172,553	0.2%	0	David Bergland	California	0
Lester Maddox	American Independent	Georgia	170,274	0.2%	0	William D. Dyke	Wisconsin	0
Thomas J. Anderson	American	(c)	158,271	0.2%	0	Rufus Shackelford		0
Peter Camejo	Socialist Workers		90,986	0.1%	0	Willie Mae Reid		0
Other			218,525	0.3%	–	Other		–
Total			81,531,584	100 %	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1976 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005).

1980 Republican presidential primaries

• Popular vote^[9]:
  • Ronald Reagan - 7,709,793 (59.79%)
  • George H. W. Bush - 3,070,033 (23.81%)
  • John B. Anderson - 1,572,174 (12.19%)
  • Howard Baker - 181,153 (1.41%)
  • Phil Crane - 97,793 (0.76%)
  • John B. Connally - 82,625 (0.64%)
  • Unpledged - 68,155 (0.53%)
  • Ben Fernandez - 68,155 (0.53%)
  • Harold Stassen - 25,425 (0.20%)
  • Gerald Ford - 10,557 (0.08%)
  • Bob Dole - 7,204 (0.06%)

• States carried^[10]:
  • Reagan - 44
  • Bush - 6

1980 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)^[11]:

• Ronald Reagan - 1,939 (97.44%)
• John B. Anderson - 37 (1.86%)
• George H. W. Bush - 13 (0.65%)
• Anne Armstrong - 1 (0.05%)

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	RM's Electoral Vote
			Count	Pct
Ronald Wilson Reagan	Republican	California	43,903,230	50.7%	489 (44 states)	George Herbert Walker Bush	Texas	489 (44 states)
James Earl Carter, Jr.	Democratic	Georgia	35,480,115	41.0%	49 (6 states and D.C.)	Walter Frederick Mondale	Minnesota	49 (6 states and D.C.)
John Bayard Anderson	(none)	Illinois	5,719,850	6.6%	0	Patrick John Lucey	Wisconsin	0
Ed Clark	Libertarian	California	921,128	1.1%	0	David H. Koch	Kansas	0
Barry Commoner	Citizens	Missouri	233,052	0.3%	0	La Donna Harris	Oklahoma	0
John Rarick	American Independent		40,906	0.0%	0	Eileen Shearer		0
Ellen McCormack	Right to Life	New York	32,320	0.0%	0	Carroll Driscoll		0
Other			252,303	0.3%	–	Other		–
Total			86,574,904	100 %	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1980 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005).

1984 Republican presidential primaries^[12]:

• Ronald Reagan (inc.) - 6,484,987 (98.78%)
• Unpledged - 55,458 (0.85%)
• Harold Stassen - 12,749 (0.19%)

Reagan won all states

1984 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)^[13]:

• Ronald Reagan (inc.) - 2,233 (99.91%)
• Abstaining - 2 (0.09%)

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	RM's Electoral Vote
			Count	Pct
Ronald Wilson Reagan	Republican	California	54,455,472	58.8%	525 (49 states)	George Herbert Walker Bush	Texas	525 (49 states)
Walter Frederick Mondale	Democratic	Minnesota	37,577,352	40.6%	13 (1 state and D.C.)	Geraldine Anne Ferraro	New York	13 (1 state and D.C.)
David Bergland	Libertarian	California	228,111	0.3%	0	Jim Lewis	Connecticut	0
Other			392,298	0.4%	–	Other		–
Total			92,653,233	100 %	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

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