The 1984 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Iowa 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 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. While the majority of counties turned out for Reagan, the politically volatile state of Iowa was a relatively narrow victory for him, thanks in part to the Midwest Farm Crisis of the early 1980s. The relatively weak Republican trend for this election is highlighted with the loss of Des Moines's highly populated Polk County to Mondale.
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Iowa weighed in for this election as 11 points more Democratic than the national average. As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Black Hawk County (Waterloo), Linn County (Cedar Rapids), and Story County (Ames) voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[1] Iowa would not vote Republican again until 2004.
Campaign
editGovernor Terry Branstad was the chair of Reagan's campaign in Iowa.[2]
Michael Triggs, Monty Bertelli, Herbert Blume, Richard Johnson, Larry Allen, Claudine Mansfield, Margaret Severino, and Grace Copley served as presidential electors for Reagan.[3]
Results
edit| 1984 United States presidential election in Iowa | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Ronald Reagan (incumbent) | 703,088 | 53.27% | 8 | |
| Democratic | Walter Mondale | 605,620 | 45.89% | 0 | |
| “Nominated By Petition” | Lyndon LaRouche | 6,248 | 0.47% | 0 | |
| Libertarian | David Bergland | 1,844 | 0.14% | 0 | |
| Write-Ins | 1,051 | 0.08% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Gerald Baker | 892 | 0.07% | 0 | |
| New Alliance Party | Dennis Serrette | 463 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| Socialist Workers Party | Melvin Mason | 313 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Communist Party | Gus Hall | 286 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,319,805 | 100.0% | 8 | ||
Results by county
edit| County[4] | Ronald Reagan Republican |
Walter Mondale Democratic |
Lyndon LaRouche Nominated By Petition |
David Bergland Libertarian |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 2,615 | 56.61% | 1,979 | 42.84% | 8 | 0.17% | 6 | 0.13% | 11 | 0.24% | 636 | 13.77% | 4,619 |
| Adams | 1,706 | 57.64% | 1,221 | 41.25% | 19 | 0.64% | 10 | 0.34% | 4 | 0.14% | 485 | 16.39% | 2,960 |
| Allamakee | 3,997 | 62.91% | 2,282 | 35.91% | 51 | 0.80% | 3 | 0.05% | 21 | 0.33% | 1,715 | 27.00% | 6,354 |
| Appanoose | 3,412 | 50.48% | 3,289 | 48.66% | 37 | 0.55% | 6 | 0.09% | 15 | 0.22% | 123 | 1.82% | 6,759 |
| Audubon | 2,306 | 54.97% | 1,854 | 44.20% | 26 | 0.62% | 4 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.12% | 452 | 10.77% | 4,195 |
| Benton | 5,566 | 52.13% | 4,993 | 46.76% | 82 | 0.77% | 11 | 0.10% | 26 | 0.24% | 573 | 5.37% | 10,678 |
| Black Hawk | 32,262 | 50.23% | 31,467 | 48.99% | 282 | 0.44% | 74 | 0.12% | 148 | 0.23% | 795 | 1.24% | 64,233 |
| Boone | 5,746 | 46.80% | 6,485 | 52.82% | 22 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.03% | 20 | 0.16% | -739 | -6.02% | 12,277 |
| Bremer | 6,895 | 62.37% | 4,084 | 36.94% | 44 | 0.40% | 13 | 0.12% | 19 | 0.17% | 2,811 | 25.43% | 11,055 |
| Buchanan | 4,965 | 54.25% | 4,129 | 45.12% | 25 | 0.27% | 12 | 0.13% | 21 | 0.23% | 836 | 9.13% | 9,152 |
| Buena Vista | 5,193 | 55.22% | 4,109 | 43.69% | 43 | 0.46% | 33 | 0.35% | 27 | 0.29% | 1,084 | 11.53% | 9,405 |
| Butler | 4,570 | 66.00% | 2,323 | 33.55% | 21 | 0.30% | 3 | 0.04% | 7 | 0.10% | 2,247 | 32.45% | 6,924 |
| Calhoun | 3,311 | 56.14% | 2,541 | 43.08% | 31 | 0.53% | 9 | 0.15% | 6 | 0.10% | 770 | 13.06% | 5,898 |
| Carroll | 5,021 | 49.83% | 4,960 | 49.22% | 65 | 0.65% | 9 | 0.09% | 22 | 0.22% | 61 | 0.61% | 10,077 |
| Cass | 5,053 | 67.10% | 2,417 | 32.09% | 35 | 0.46% | 12 | 0.16% | 14 | 0.19% | 2,636 | 35.01% | 7,531 |
| Cedar | 4,617 | 59.59% | 3,086 | 39.83% | 21 | 0.27% | 16 | 0.21% | 8 | 0.10% | 1,531 | 19.76% | 7,748 |
| Cerro Gordo | 11,214 | 48.86% | 11,570 | 50.41% | 118 | 0.51% | 18 | 0.08% | 30 | 0.13% | -356 | -1.55% | 22,950 |
| Cherokee | 4,046 | 54.16% | 3,349 | 44.83% | 46 | 0.62% | 6 | 0.08% | 23 | 0.31% | 697 | 9.33% | 7,470 |
| Chickasaw | 3,661 | 52.93% | 3,186 | 46.06% | 48 | 0.69% | 6 | 0.09% | 16 | 0.23% | 475 | 6.87% | 6,917 |
| Clarke | 2,262 | 52.35% | 2,030 | 46.98% | 12 | 0.28% | 10 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.16% | 232 | 5.37% | 4,321 |
| Clay | 4,450 | 53.51% | 3,774 | 45.38% | 57 | 0.69% | 9 | 0.11% | 26 | 0.31% | 676 | 8.13% | 8,316 |
| Clayton | 5,029 | 58.80% | 3,446 | 40.29% | 54 | 0.63% | 8 | 0.09% | 16 | 0.19% | 1,583 | 18.51% | 8,553 |
| Clinton | 13,914 | 54.77% | 11,240 | 44.25% | 150 | 0.59% | 33 | 0.13% | 67 | 0.26% | 2,674 | 10.52% | 25,404 |
| Crawford | 4,552 | 56.53% | 3,396 | 42.17% | 82 | 1.02% | 9 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.17% | 1,156 | 14.36% | 8,053 |
| Dallas | 6,080 | 47.85% | 6,564 | 51.66% | 17 | 0.13% | 15 | 0.12% | 31 | 0.24% | -484 | -3.81% | 12,707 |
| Davis | 1,956 | 46.77% | 2,187 | 52.30% | 19 | 0.45% | 2 | 0.05% | 18 | 0.43% | -231 | -5.53% | 4,182 |
| Decatur | 2,104 | 49.60% | 2,098 | 49.46% | 15 | 0.35% | 4 | 0.09% | 21 | 0.50% | 6 | 0.14% | 4,242 |
| Delaware | 4,769 | 59.61% | 3,158 | 39.47% | 45 | 0.56% | 4 | 0.05% | 25 | 0.31% | 1,611 | 20.14% | 8,001 |
| Des Moines | 9,559 | 45.85% | 11,173 | 53.59% | 53 | 0.25% | 29 | 0.14% | 36 | 0.17% | -1,614 | -7.74% | 20,850 |
| Dickinson | 4,064 | 56.68% | 3,025 | 42.19% | 58 | 0.81% | 9 | 0.13% | 14 | 0.20% | 1,039 | 14.49% | 7,170 |
| Dubuque | 19,239 | 46.37% | 21,876 | 52.72% | 234 | 0.56% | 50 | 0.12% | 92 | 0.22% | -2,637 | -6.35% | 41,491 |
| Emmet | 2,946 | 51.46% | 2,746 | 47.97% | 26 | 0.45% | 4 | 0.07% | 3 | 0.05% | 200 | 3.49% | 5,725 |
| Fayette | 6,505 | 57.56% | 4,677 | 41.38% | 69 | 0.61% | 16 | 0.14% | 35 | 0.31% | 1,828 | 16.18% | 11,302 |
| Floyd | 4,341 | 50.75% | 4,154 | 48.57% | 39 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.08% | 12 | 0.14% | 187 | 2.18% | 8,553 |
| Franklin | 3,129 | 56.43% | 2,349 | 42.36% | 48 | 0.87% | 3 | 0.05% | 16 | 0.29% | 780 | 14.07% | 5,545 |
| Fremont | 2,686 | 64.77% | 1,426 | 34.39% | 25 | 0.60% | 3 | 0.07% | 7 | 0.17% | 1,260 | 30.38% | 4,147 |
| Greene | 2,579 | 46.44% | 2,831 | 50.97% | 118 | 2.12% | 13 | 0.23% | 13 | 0.23% | -252 | -4.53% | 5,554 |
| Grundy | 4,527 | 69.45% | 1,915 | 29.38% | 55 | 0.84% | 7 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.21% | 2,612 | 40.07% | 6,518 |
| Guthrie | 2,783 | 51.89% | 2,517 | 46.93% | 44 | 0.82% | 6 | 0.11% | 13 | 0.24% | 266 | 4.96% | 5,363 |
| Hamilton | 4,279 | 55.61% | 3,330 | 43.27% | 42 | 0.55% | 15 | 0.19% | 29 | 0.38% | 949 | 12.34% | 7,695 |
| Hancock | 3,362 | 56.62% | 2,539 | 42.76% | 22 | 0.37% | 5 | 0.08% | 10 | 0.17% | 823 | 13.86% | 5,938 |
| Hardin | 5,195 | 53.38% | 4,477 | 46.00% | 29 | 0.30% | 11 | 0.11% | 20 | 0.21% | 718 | 7.38% | 9,732 |
| Harrison | 4,352 | 63.24% | 2,495 | 36.25% | 21 | 0.31% | 2 | 0.03% | 12 | 0.17% | 1,857 | 26.99% | 6,882 |
| Henry | 4,516 | 56.77% | 3,377 | 42.45% | 27 | 0.34% | 15 | 0.19% | 20 | 0.25% | 1,139 | 14.32% | 7,955 |
| Howard | 2,718 | 55.49% | 2,135 | 43.59% | 19 | 0.39% | 6 | 0.12% | 20 | 0.41% | 583 | 11.90% | 4,898 |
| Humboldt | 3,396 | 57.92% | 2,406 | 41.04% | 45 | 0.77% | 6 | 0.10% | 10 | 0.17% | 990 | 16.88% | 5,863 |
| Ida | 2,618 | 62.30% | 1,559 | 37.10% | 18 | 0.43% | 2 | 0.05% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,059 | 25.20% | 4,202 |
| Iowa | 4,352 | 60.02% | 2,815 | 38.82% | 63 | 0.87% | 7 | 0.10% | 14 | 0.19% | 1,537 | 21.20% | 7,251 |
| Jackson | 4,811 | 51.51% | 4,400 | 47.11% | 81 | 0.87% | 19 | 0.20% | 29 | 0.31% | 411 | 4.40% | 9,340 |
| Jasper | 8,576 | 51.36% | 8,023 | 48.04% | 50 | 0.30% | 20 | 0.12% | 30 | 0.18% | 553 | 3.32% | 16,699 |
| Jefferson | 4,727 | 61.19% | 2,961 | 38.33% | 9 | 0.12% | 13 | 0.17% | 15 | 0.19% | 1,766 | 22.86% | 7,725 |
| Johnson | 18,677 | 41.46% | 26,000 | 57.72% | 54 | 0.12% | 127 | 0.28% | 186 | 0.41% | -7,323 | -16.26% | 45,044 |
| Jones | 4,907 | 55.82% | 3,825 | 43.51% | 27 | 0.31% | 12 | 0.14% | 20 | 0.23% | 1,082 | 12.31% | 8,791 |
| Keokuk | 2,913 | 51.50% | 2,649 | 46.84% | 64 | 1.13% | 2 | 0.04% | 28 | 0.50% | 264 | 4.66% | 5,656 |
| Kossuth | 4,872 | 49.64% | 4,838 | 49.30% | 78 | 0.79% | 10 | 0.10% | 16 | 0.16% | 34 | 0.34% | 9,814 |
| Lee | 8,756 | 49.17% | 8,912 | 50.04% | 74 | 0.42% | 29 | 0.16% | 38 | 0.21% | -156 | -0.87% | 17,809 |
| Linn | 41,061 | 51.12% | 38,528 | 47.97% | 172 | 0.21% | 173 | 0.22% | 381 | 0.47% | 2,533 | 3.15% | 80,315 |
| Louisa | 2,623 | 57.36% | 1,927 | 42.14% | 10 | 0.22% | 4 | 0.09% | 9 | 0.20% | 696 | 15.22% | 4,573 |
| Lucas | 2,630 | 51.72% | 2,422 | 47.63% | 16 | 0.31% | 5 | 0.10% | 12 | 0.24% | 208 | 4.09% | 5,085 |
| Lyon | 4,178 | 74.05% | 1,401 | 24.83% | 49 | 0.87% | 8 | 0.14% | 6 | 0.11% | 2,777 | 49.22% | 5,642 |
| Madison | 3,168 | 50.60% | 3,067 | 48.99% | 9 | 0.14% | 6 | 0.10% | 11 | 0.18% | 101 | 1.61% | 6,261 |
| Mahaska | 6,086 | 59.13% | 4,107 | 39.90% | 65 | 0.63% | 9 | 0.09% | 26 | 0.25% | 1,979 | 19.23% | 10,293 |
| Marion | 7,259 | 53.24% | 6,313 | 46.30% | 40 | 0.29% | 12 | 0.09% | 10 | 0.07% | 946 | 6.94% | 13,634 |
| Marshall | 10,839 | 54.63% | 8,809 | 44.40% | 123 | 0.62% | 26 | 0.13% | 43 | 0.22% | 2,030 | 10.23% | 19,840 |
| Mills | 3,994 | 72.80% | 1,434 | 26.14% | 29 | 0.53% | 11 | 0.20% | 18 | 0.33% | 2,560 | 46.66% | 5,486 |
| Mitchell | 3,144 | 54.74% | 2,531 | 44.07% | 45 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.16% | 14 | 0.24% | 613 | 10.67% | 5,743 |
| Monona | 2,746 | 55.37% | 2,159 | 43.54% | 41 | 0.83% | 4 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.18% | 587 | 11.83% | 4,959 |
| Monroe | 1,927 | 44.91% | 2,342 | 54.58% | 7 | 0.16% | 3 | 0.07% | 12 | 0.28% | -415 | -9.67% | 4,291 |
| Montgomery | 4,224 | 71.23% | 1,661 | 28.01% | 27 | 0.46% | 8 | 0.13% | 10 | 0.17% | 2,563 | 43.22% | 5,930 |
| Muscatine | 9,069 | 59.79% | 5,986 | 39.46% | 75 | 0.49% | 16 | 0.11% | 22 | 0.15% | 3,083 | 20.33% | 15,168 |
| O'Brien | 5,008 | 66.16% | 2,479 | 32.75% | 59 | 0.78% | 12 | 0.16% | 11 | 0.15% | 2,529 | 33.41% | 7,569 |
| Osceola | 2,285 | 65.98% | 1,146 | 33.09% | 28 | 0.81% | 1 | 0.03% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,139 | 32.89% | 3,463 |
| Page | 5,876 | 75.06% | 1,914 | 24.45% | 24 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.10% | 3,962 | 50.61% | 7,828 |
| Palo Alto | 2,715 | 46.73% | 3,018 | 51.94% | 71 | 1.22% | 1 | 0.02% | 5 | 0.09% | -303 | -5.21% | 5,810 |
| Plymouth | 6,482 | 64.65% | 3,464 | 34.55% | 54 | 0.54% | 13 | 0.13% | 14 | 0.14% | 3,018 | 30.10% | 10,027 |
| Pocahontas | 2,627 | 50.64% | 2,481 | 47.82% | 24 | 0.46% | 41 | 0.79% | 15 | 0.29% | 146 | 2.82% | 5,188 |
| Polk | 71,413 | 48.30% | 75,413 | 51.01% | 540 | 0.37% | 244 | 0.17% | 238 | 0.16% | -4,000 | -2.71% | 147,848 |
| Pottawattamie | 21,527 | 63.11% | 12,329 | 36.14% | 179 | 0.52% | 33 | 0.10% | 44 | 0.13% | 9,198 | 26.97% | 34,112 |
| Poweshiek | 4,715 | 53.04% | 4,103 | 46.16% | 38 | 0.43% | 7 | 0.08% | 26 | 0.29% | 612 | 6.88% | 8,889 |
| Ringgold | 1,512 | 48.51% | 1,593 | 51.11% | 10 | 0.32% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | -81 | -2.60% | 3,117 |
| Sac | 3,298 | 57.57% | 2,363 | 41.25% | 41 | 0.72% | 9 | 0.16% | 18 | 0.31% | 935 | 16.32% | 5,729 |
| Scott | 38,034 | 53.41% | 32,550 | 45.71% | 385 | 0.54% | 122 | 0.17% | 121 | 0.17% | 5,484 | 7.70% | 71,212 |
| Shelby | 4,200 | 64.25% | 2,291 | 35.05% | 31 | 0.47% | 7 | 0.11% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,909 | 29.20% | 6,537 |
| Sioux | 11,665 | 81.61% | 2,585 | 18.09% | 25 | 0.17% | 5 | 0.03% | 13 | 0.09% | 9,080 | 63.52% | 14,293 |
| Story | 19,804 | 51.56% | 18,277 | 47.58% | 107 | 0.28% | 94 | 0.24% | 128 | 0.33% | 1,527 | 3.98% | 38,410 |
| Tama | 4,882 | 54.30% | 4,061 | 45.17% | 25 | 0.28% | 6 | 0.07% | 16 | 0.18% | 821 | 9.13% | 8,990 |
| Taylor | 2,496 | 62.06% | 1,499 | 37.27% | 13 | 0.32% | 3 | 0.07% | 11 | 0.27% | 997 | 24.79% | 4,022 |
| Union | 3,583 | 54.49% | 2,875 | 43.72% | 34 | 0.52% | 12 | 0.18% | 72 | 1.09% | 708 | 10.77% | 6,576 |
| Van Buren | 2,138 | 56.73% | 1,606 | 42.61% | 19 | 0.50% | 1 | 0.03% | 5 | 0.13% | 532 | 14.12% | 3,769 |
| Wapello | 7,098 | 39.88% | 10,545 | 59.24% | 86 | 0.48% | 31 | 0.17% | 40 | 0.22% | -3,447 | -19.36% | 17,800 |
| Warren | 8,277 | 49.95% | 8,171 | 49.31% | 84 | 0.51% | 13 | 0.08% | 25 | 0.15% | 106 | 0.64% | 16,570 |
| Washington | 4,613 | 59.37% | 3,079 | 39.63% | 46 | 0.59% | 14 | 0.18% | 18 | 0.23% | 1,534 | 19.74% | 7,770 |
| Wayne | 2,061 | 51.26% | 1,927 | 47.92% | 14 | 0.35% | 8 | 0.20% | 11 | 0.27% | 134 | 3.34% | 4,021 |
| Webster | 9,619 | 48.58% | 9,930 | 50.15% | 206 | 1.04% | 25 | 0.13% | 22 | 0.11% | -311 | -1.57% | 19,802 |
| Winnebago | 3,616 | 57.27% | 2,669 | 42.27% | 16 | 0.25% | 2 | 0.03% | 11 | 0.17% | 947 | 15.00% | 6,314 |
| Winneshiek | 5,277 | 57.96% | 3,724 | 40.90% | 78 | 0.86% | 7 | 0.08% | 19 | 0.21% | 1,553 | 17.06% | 9,105 |
| Woodbury | 23,002 | 54.31% | 18,951 | 44.75% | 296 | 0.70% | 42 | 0.10% | 59 | 0.14% | 4,051 | 9.56% | 42,350 |
| Worth | 1,985 | 46.53% | 2,263 | 53.05% | 9 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.09% | -278 | -6.52% | 4,266 |
| Wright | 3,675 | 54.81% | 2,980 | 44.44% | 31 | 0.46% | 9 | 0.13% | 10 | 0.15% | 695 | 10.37% | 6,705 |
| Totals | 703,088 | 53.27% | 605,620 | 45.89% | 6,248 | 0.47% | 1,844 | 0.14% | 3,005 | 0.23% | 97,468 | 7.38% | 1,319,805 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "Branstad to head Reagan campaign". The Daily Nonpareil. January 30, 1984. p. 2. Archived from the original on February 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Triggs 1986, p. 203.
- ^ "IA US President Race, November 06, 1984". Our Campaigns.
Works cited
edit- Triggs, Michael, ed. (1986). 1985-86 Iowa Official Register (PDF). Secretary of State of Iowa.