The 1980 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the

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. State voters chose three electors to the

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was won by Former

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(R), who won the state with a 36-point landslide. Reagan's margin of victory was especially impressive as four year earlier,

had been a swing state, only going for Ford by a narrow 4.36%. Nevada swung nearly 32 points to towards the Republicans this election. Likely owing to criticism of Carter for his inability to understand specifically Western issues, mainly the region's problems with water supply, Reagan won the state handily. Starting with this election, the winner of every presidential election won Nevada, until

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. Nevada came out 26% more Republican than the nation at-large. In July of that year, Reagan campaigned with republican House of Representatives candidate Vince Saunders. Despite this, in the House of Representatives election, democrat James David Santini won with more than 70% of the vote.

Primaries

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Clark * Esmeralda * Nye *

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* White Pine

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Primaries

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References