1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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South Carolina was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a very slim margin of 1 point and a half.[1]
The state weighed in for this election as 8% more Democratic than the national average, just 3% less than four years earlier. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: York, Anderson, Oconee, Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, and Saluda.[2]
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Ronald Reagan | Republican | California | 441,207 | 49.57% | 8 | George H. W. Bush | Texas | 8 |
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic | Georgia | 427,560 | 48.04% | 0 | Walter Mondale | Minnesota | 0 |
| John B. Anderson | Independent | Illinois | 14,150 | 1.59% | 0 | Patrick Lucey | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Ed Clark | Libertarian | California | 4,975 | 0.56% | 0 | David Koch | New York | 0 |
| John Rarick | American Independent | Louisiana | 1,815 | 0.20% | 0 | Eileen Shearer | California | 0 |
| — | Write-ins | — | 37 | 0.04% | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| Total | 890,105 | 100% | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Ronald Wilson Reagan[3] Republican |
James Earl Carter[3] Democratic |
John Bayard Anderson[4] Independent |
Various candidates[4] Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Abbeville | 2,361 | 35.60% | 4,049 | 61.05% | 111 | 1.67% | 111 | 1.67% | -1,688 | -25.45% | 6,632 |
| Aiken | 18,570 | 57.37% | 13,014 | 40.21% | 601 | 1.86% | 184 | 0.57% | 5,556 | 17.16% | 32,369 |
| Allendale | 1,182 | 29.62% | 2,778 | 69.62% | 17 | 0.43% | 13 | 0.33% | -1,596 | -40.00% | 3,990 |
| Anderson | 15,667 | 44.38% | 18,801 | 53.25% | 474 | 1.34% | 363 | 1.03% | -3,134 | -8.88% | 35,305 |
| Bamberg | 2,098 | 38.69% | 3,294 | 60.75% | 17 | 0.31% | 13 | 0.24% | -1,196 | -22.06% | 5,422 |
| Barnwell | 3,228 | 48.14% | 3,399 | 50.69% | 64 | 0.95% | 14 | 0.21% | -171 | -2.55% | 6,705 |
| Beaufort | 8,620 | 51.62% | 7,415 | 44.40% | 513 | 3.07% | 152 | 0.91% | 1,205 | 7.22% | 16,700 |
| Berkeley | 12,830 | 55.63% | 9,850 | 42.71% | 292 | 1.27% | 92 | 0.40% | 2,980 | 12.92% | 23,064 |
| Calhoun | 1,767 | 45.86% | 2,043 | 53.02% | 31 | 0.80% | 12 | 0.31% | -276 | -7.16% | 3,853 |
| Charleston | 44,111 | 55.13% | 32,727 | 40.90% | 2,222 | 2.78% | 952 | 1.19% | 11,384 | 14.23% | 80,012 |
| Cherokee | 5,379 | 43.32% | 6,889 | 55.48% | 86 | 0.69% | 64 | 0.52% | -1,510 | -12.16% | 12,418 |
| Chester | 3,104 | 37.12% | 5,145 | 61.52% | 87 | 1.04% | 27 | 0.32% | -2,041 | -24.41% | 8,363 |
| Chesterfield | 3,478 | 34.88% | 6,393 | 64.11% | 64 | 0.64% | 37 | 0.37% | -2,915 | -29.23% | 9,972 |
| Clarendon | 4,158 | 40.79% | 5,979 | 58.65% | 28 | 0.27% | 29 | 0.28% | -1,821 | -17.86% | 10,194 |
| Colleton | 4,719 | 44.76% | 5,745 | 54.49% | 58 | 0.55% | 21 | 0.20% | -1,026 | -9.73% | 10,543 |
| Darlington | 8,289 | 48.39% | 8,489 | 49.55% | 220 | 1.28% | 133 | 0.78% | -200 | -1.17% | 17,131 |
| Dillon | 3,385 | 42.31% | 4,518 | 56.48% | 59 | 0.74% | 38 | 0.48% | -1,133 | -14.16% | 8,000 |
| Dorchester | 10,893 | 59.53% | 7,237 | 39.55% | 140 | 0.77% | 28 | 0.15% | 3,656 | 19.98% | 18,298 |
| Edgefield | 2,415 | 40.68% | 3,465 | 58.36% | 29 | 0.49% | 28 | 0.47% | -1,050 | -17.69% | 5,937 |
| Fairfield | 2,098 | 33.18% | 4,153 | 65.68% | 37 | 0.59% | 35 | 0.55% | -2,055 | -32.50% | 6,323 |
| Florence | 17,069 | 50.19% | 16,391 | 48.19% | 348 | 1.02% | 203 | 0.60% | 678 | 1.99% | 34,011 |
| Georgetown | 5,151 | 42.78% | 6,701 | 55.65% | 148 | 1.23% | 42 | 0.35% | -1,550 | -12.87% | 12,042 |
| Greenville | 46,168 | 57.41% | 32,135 | 39.96% | 1,600 | 1.99% | 512 | 0.64% | 14,033 | 17.45% | 80,415 |
| Greenwood | 7,290 | 43.17% | 9,283 | 54.97% | 230 | 1.36% | 85 | 0.50% | -1,993 | -11.80% | 16,888 |
| Hampton | 2,217 | 33.58% | 4,329 | 65.56% | 35 | 0.53% | 22 | 0.33% | -2,112 | -31.99% | 6,603 |
| Horry | 14,323 | 49.62% | 13,888 | 48.12% | 528 | 1.83% | 125 | 0.43% | 435 | 1.51% | 28,864 |
| Jasper | 1,617 | 32.54% | 3,312 | 66.65% | 32 | 0.64% | 8 | 0.16% | -1,695 | -34.11% | 4,969 |
| Kershaw | 6,652 | 55.55% | 5,103 | 42.62% | 145 | 1.21% | 74 | 0.62% | 1,549 | 12.94% | 11,974 |
| Lancaster | 6,410 | 42.25% | 8,283 | 54.60% | 331 | 2.18% | 146 | 0.96% | -1,873 | -12.35% | 15,170 |
| Laurens | 6,036 | 42.83% | 7,856 | 55.74% | 125 | 0.89% | 76 | 0.54% | -1,820 | -12.91% | 14,093 |
| Lee | 2,952 | 37.48% | 4,818 | 61.17% | 18 | 0.23% | 89 | 1.13% | -1,866 | -23.69% | 7,877 |
| Lexington | 28,313 | 67.60% | 12,334 | 29.45% | 762 | 1.82% | 477 | 1.14% | 15,979 | 38.15% | 41,886 |
| McCormick | 797 | 30.60% | 1,774 | 68.10% | 22 | 0.84% | 12 | 0.46% | -977 | -37.50% | 2,605 |
| Marion | 3,321 | 37.73% | 5,379 | 61.12% | 75 | 0.85% | 26 | 0.30% | -2,058 | -23.38% | 8,801 |
| Marlboro | 2,585 | 32.15% | 5,378 | 66.89% | 52 | 0.65% | 25 | 0.31% | -2,793 | -34.74% | 8,040 |
| Newberry | 5,568 | 52.96% | 4,825 | 45.90% | 80 | 0.76% | 40 | 0.38% | 743 | 7.07% | 10,513 |
| Oconee | 5,651 | 41.58% | 7,677 | 56.49% | 189 | 1.39% | 74 | 0.54% | -2,026 | -14.91% | 13,591 |
| Orangeburg | 11,313 | 40.79% | 16,178 | 58.33% | 141 | 0.51% | 101 | 0.36% | -4,865 | -17.54% | 27,733 |
| Pickens | 9,575 | 53.42% | 7,789 | 43.46% | 402 | 2.24% | 157 | 0.88% | 1,786 | 9.96% | 17,923 |
| Richland | 36,337 | 49.87% | 33,158 | 45.50% | 1,812 | 2.49% | 1,562 | 2.14% | 3,179 | 4.36% | 72,869 |
| Saluda | 2,450 | 47.40% | 2,651 | 51.29% | 38 | 0.74% | 30 | 0.58% | -201 | -3.89% | 5,169 |
| Spartanburg | 30,092 | 51.12% | 27,245 | 46.28% | 941 | 1.60% | 591 | 1.00% | 2,847 | 4.84% | 58,869 |
| Sumter | 10,557 | 52.45% | 9,205 | 45.74% | 250 | 1.24% | 114 | 0.57% | 1,352 | 6.72% | 20,126 |
| Union | 4,035 | 38.59% | 6,274 | 60.00% | 93 | 0.89% | 54 | 0.52% | -2,239 | -21.41% | 10,456 |
| Williamsburg | 5,110 | 38.29% | 8,135 | 60.96% | 64 | 0.48% | 35 | 0.26% | -3,025 | -22.67% | 13,344 |
| York | 11,265 | 46.85% | 12,075 | 50.22% | 539 | 2.24% | 164 | 0.68% | -810 | -3.37% | 24,043 |
| Totals | 441,206 | 49.57% | 427,559 | 48.03% | 14,150 | 1.59% | 7,190 | 0.81% | 13,647 | 1.53% | 890,105 |
References
- "1980 Presidential General Election Results – South Carolina". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Géoelections; 1980 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- Géoelections; Popular Vote for John B. Anderson (.xlsx file for €15)
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