3 0 66,666 17,651 26.9% 7.1% | 155,017 66,666 62.5% 26.9% Start date November 4, 1980 | |
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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 1980 United States presidential election. Nevada voters chose 3 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
Nevada was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 25-point landslide.
Starting with this election, the winner of every presidential election won Nevada, until in 2016 Donald Trump won the presidency despite losing the state.
Likely owing to criticism of Carter for his inability to understand specifically Western issues, mainly the region’s problems with water supply, the 1980 result is the most Republican Nevada has ever been relative to the nation as a whole since statehood.