United States presidential election in Alabama, 1984
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County Results
Mondale—80-90%
Mondale—70-80%
Mondale—60-70%
Mondale—50-60%
Reagan—<50%
Reagan—50-60%
Reagan—60-70%
Reagan—70-80%
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The 1984 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose 9 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President of the United States.
Alabama 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.
The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Alabama, with just under 99% of the electorate voting only either Democratic or Republican. The majority of counties in Alabama voted for Reagan in a particularly strong turn out. Typical for the time, the almost entirely African-American counties of the Black Belt turned out overwhelmingly for Mondale: in Macon County Mondale received 82.71 percent of the vote, which was the highest percentage he received in any county nationwide outside the District of Columbia. Several counties nearby, but not inclusive of, the major population centers of Montgomery and Birmingham, also voted Democratic, illustrating an urban spill-over effect.
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