United States presidential election in Michigan, 1984

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Nominee	Ronald Reagan	Walter Mondale
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	California	Minnesota
Running mate	George H.W. Bush	Geraldine Ferraro
Electoral vote	20	0
Popular vote	2,251,571	1,529,638
Percentage	59.2%	40.2%

County Results

Mondale—50-60%

Reagan—<50%

Reagan—50-60%

Reagan—60-70%

Reagan—70-80%

President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The 1984 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Michigan voters chose 20 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President of the United States.

Michigan 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 Michigan, with just over 99% of the electorate voting only either Democratic or Republican, though several more parties appeared on the ballot. Nearly every county in Michigan voted in majority for Reagan, a particularly strong turn out in what was at the time a conservative-leaning state. Typical for elections in the 1980s, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan turned out somewhat more Democratic, and the Lower Peninsula turned out almost entirely Republican, with the notable exception of Detroit's highly populated Wayne County.

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