1984 United States presidential election in Arizona

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.

Main article: 1984 United States presidential election
1984 United States presidential election in Arizona
November 6, 1984
 
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%
County results
President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

 Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elections in Arizona

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.

Partisan background

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 in majority for Reagan, a particularly strong turn out even in this typically conservative-leaning state. Reagan did the best in Phoenix's highly populated Maricopa County, and Mondale did the 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.[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.

Republican victory

Reagan won the election in Arizona with a decisive 34 point sweep-out landslide. The wide margins found in Arizona, though generally conservative in its voting, are reflective of a nationwide reconsolidation of base for the Republican Party which took place through the 1980s; called by Reagan the "second American Revolution".[3] This was most evident during the 1984 presidential election. No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American West at large, as Reagan did.

It is speculated that Mondale lost support with voters nearly immediately during the campaign, namely during his acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. There he stated that he intended to increase taxes. To quote Mondale, "By the end of my first term, I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two thirds. Let's tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."[4] Despite this claimed attempt at establishing truthfulness with the electorate, this claim to raise taxes badly eroded his chances in what had already begun as an uphill battle against the charismatic Ronald Reagan.

Reagan also enjoyed high levels of bipartisan support during the 1984 presidential election, both in Arizona, and across the nation at large. Many registered Democrats who voted for Reagan (Reagan Democrats) stated that they had chosen to do so because they associated him with the economic recovery, because of his strong stance on national security issues with Russia, and because they considered the Democrats as "supporting American poor and minorities at the expense of the middle class."[5] These public opinion factors contributed to Reagan's 1984 landslide victory, in Arizona and elsewhere.

Results
1984 United States presidential election in Arizona
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Ronald Reagan 681,416 66.42% 7
Democratic Walter Mondale 333,854 32.54% 0
Libertarian David Bergland 10,585 1.03% 0
Write-Ins 24 >0.01% 0
Citizen's Party Sonia Johnson 18 >0.01% 0
Totals 1,025,897 100.0% 7

Results by county
County Ronald Wilson Reagan
Republican		 Walter Frederick Mondale
Democratic		 Various candidates
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Apache 5,638 43.26% 7,277 55.84% 117 0.90% -1,639 -12.58% 13,032
Cochise 16,405 62.25% 9,671 36.70% 279 1.06% 6,734 25.55% 26,355
Coconino 17,581 59.13% 11,528 38.77% 626 2.11% 6,053 20.36% 29,735
Gila 8,543 56.02% 6,509 42.68% 197 1.29% 2,034 13.34% 15,249
Graham 5,247 62.35% 3,080 36.60% 89 1.06% 2,167 25.75% 8,416
Greenlee 1,801 47.58% 1,963 51.86% 21 0.55% -162 -4.28% 3,785
La Paz 2,757 63.92% 1,502 34.82% 54 1.25% 1,255 29.10% 4,313
Maricopa 411,902 71.98% 154,833 27.06% 5,538 0.97% 257,069 44.92% 572,273
Mohave 17,364 69.26% 7,436 29.66% 272 1.08% 9,928 39.60% 25,072
Navajo 11,379 58.12% 8,017 40.95% 182 0.93% 3,362 17.17% 19,578
Pima 123,830 56.90% 91,585 42.09% 2,197 1.01% 32,245 14.82% 217,612
Pinal 16,464 57.53% 11,923 41.66% 232 0.81% 4,541 15.87% 28,619
Santa Cruz 3,855 60.34% 2,463 38.55% 71 1.11% 1,392 21.79% 6,389
Yavapai 24,802 70.89% 9,609 27.46% 577 1.65% 15,193 43.42% 34,988
Yuma 13,848 67.61% 6,458 31.53% 175 0.85% 7,390 36.08% 20,481
Totals681,41666.42%333,85432.54%10,6271.04%347,56233.88%1,025,897
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See also

References
  1. "1984 Presidential General Election Results – Arizona". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  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. Raines, Howell (November 7, 1984). "Reagan Wins By a Landslide, Sweeping at Least 48 States; G.O.P. Gains Strength in House". The New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  4. Mondale's Acceptance Speech, 1984, AllPolitics
  5. Prendergast, William B. (1999). The Catholic vote in American politics. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 186, 191–193. ISBN 0-87840-724-3.
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