The Reagan Revolution Takes Hold States Embracing Change in 1980

The 1980 Presidential Election pitted incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter against Republican Governor Ronald Reagan and independent candidate John ... President Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977 as a Washington outsider, pledging to restore a sense a morality to both domestic and foreign policy. The following table shows the number of votes per candidate for all Presidential General Elections from 1948 to 2012 in the State of Maryland. Every four years in the United States, the electoral college system is used to determine the winner of the presidential election. New Jersey has voted in blue in the past eight presidential elections. A look at the state's voting history and when it flipped from red to ... In the past 74 years, California has chosen a Republican for president as many times as it has a Democrat. Election results and vote counts for candidates for office, ballot questions, and party enrollment and voter registration and turnout statistics. For the first time since the election of 1824, no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. Miltop received 256 votes, Baker received 226 votes, and ... Unlike many previous elections, the Republican and Democratic candidates have both appeared on past ballots: Donald Trump successfully ran for ... The 12th Amendment to the Constitution requires that presidential and vice presidential candidates gain “a majority of the whole number of Electors ...