1984 United States presidential election in Ohio explained

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Election Name:	1984 United States presidential election in Ohio
Country:	Ohio
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1980 United States presidential election in Ohio
Previous Year:	1980
Next Election:	1988 United States presidential election in Ohio
Next Year:	1988
Election Date:	November 6, 1984
Image1:	Ronald Reagan presidential portrait (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Ronald Reagan
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	California
Running Mate1:	George H. W. Bush
Electoral Vote1:	23
Popular Vote1:	2,678,560
Percentage1:	58.90%
Nominee2:	Walter Mondale
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Minnesota
Running Mate2:	Geraldine Ferraro
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	1,825,440
Percentage2:	40.14%
Map Size:	250px
President
Before Election:	Ronald Reagan
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Ronald Reagan
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1984 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

Ohio 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.

The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for Ohio, with over 99% of the electorate voting only either Democratic or Republican, though several more parties did appear on the ballot.^[1] Reagan won the election in Ohio by a decisive 18.76% margin, making Ohio just over half a percent more Republican than the nation overall. Reagan won all but six of Ohio's counties, but, amongst the state's population centers, scored particularly strong wins in Hamilton and Franklin Counties, home to Cincinnati and Columbus and their closer-in suburbs, respectively; he won over 60% in both and won each by a raw vote margin of over 100,000 votes. Mondale's wins were limited to Cuyahoga, which he won with less than 60% of the vote, and a series of counties in Appalachian Ohio, along the border with Pennsylvania and West Virginia: Mahoning, Trumbull, Jefferson, Belmont, and Monroe. Unlike Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and Nixon in 1972, Reagan was unable to capture the state's largest county, Cuyahoga; however, Mondale was unable to retain Athens County (home to Ohio University), despite that it had voted Democratic in the last three straight elections (including for McGovern).

While Pennsylvania and much of the Upper Midwest shifted more Democratic in this election, Ohio voted in line with the nation, presaging its role as the only large Midwestern state (and indeed as the only large state outside the South) to vote Republican in 2000, 2004, and 2020. However, Ohio's delegation in the United States House of Representatives switched from Republican to Democratic control despite Reagan's victory in the state.^[2], this is the last election in which Lucas County, Athens County, and Summit County voted for a Republican presidential candidate, the last until 2016 that Ashtabula County voted for a Republican candidate and the last until 2020 that Lorain County voted for a Republican candidate.^[3] It is also the last time to date that Ohio voted to the left of neighboring Michigan.

Campaign

Jesse Jackson's voters were 81% black, 18% white, and 1% were members of other groups.

Results

1984 United States presidential election in Ohio
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Ronald Reagan (incumbent)	2,678,560	58.90%	23
	Democratic	Walter Mondale	1,825,440	40.14%	0
	Not Designated	Dennis Serrette	12,090	0.27%	0
	Not Designated	Lyndon LaRouche	10,693	0.24%	0
	Not Designated	David Bergland	5,886	0.13%	0
	Not Designated	Gus Hall	4,438	0.10%	0
	Not Designated	Melvin Mason	4,344	0.10%	0
	Not Designated	Edward Winn	3,565	0.08%	0
	Not Designated	Larry Holmes	2,565	0.06%	0
	Other write-ins		34	>0.01%	0
	Prohibition	Earl Dodge(write-in)	4	>0.01%	0
Totals			4,547,619	100.0%	23

Results by county

County	Ronald Reagan Republican		Walter Mondale Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
County		%		%		%		%	Total votes cast
	Adams		6,113		62.83%		3,534		36.32%	82	0.84%	2,579	26.51%	9,729
	Allen		33,506		72.98%		12,176		26.52%	229	0.50%	21,330	46.46%	45,911
	Ashland		14,339		74.40%		4,786		24.83%	147	0.76%	9,553	49.57%	19,272
	Ashtabula		21,669		52.34%		19,344		46.73%	384	0.93%	2,325	5.61%	41,397
	Athens		11,548		52.59%		10,201		46.46%	209	0.95%	1,347	6.13%	21,958
	Auglaize		14,766		77.72%		4,102		21.59%	132	0.69%	10,664	56.13%	19,000
	Belmont		15,170		43.52%		19,458		55.82%	228	0.65%	-4,288	-12.30%	34,856
	Brown		8,221		66.28%		4,067		32.79%	116	0.94%	4,154	33.49%	12,404
	Butler		76,216		72.92%		27,700		26.50%	598	0.57%	48,516	46.42%	104,514
	Carroll		6,703		63.33%		3,771		35.63%	110	1.04%	2,932	27.70%	10,584
	Champaign		9,935		73.05%		3,544		26.06%	121	0.89%	6,391	46.99%	13,600
	Clark		35,831		62.05%		21,154		36.63%	759	1.31%	14,677	25.42%	57,744
	Clermont		35,316		74.63%		11,713		24.75%	290	0.61%	23,603	49.88%	47,319
	Clinton		9,603		73.77%		3,332		25.60%	83	0.64%	6,271	48.17%	13,018
	Columbiana		24,552		54.43%		20,155		44.68%	403	0.89%	4,397	9.75%	45,110
	Coshocton		9,842		68.71%		4,392		30.66%	89	0.62%	5,450	38.05%	14,323
	Crawford		14,682		74.08%		4,932		24.88%	206	1.04%	9,750	49.20%	19,820
	Cuyahoga		284,094		43.60%		362,626		55.65%	4,913	0.75%	-78,532	-12.05%	651,633
	Darke		16,379		72.81%		5,904		26.25%	211	0.94%	10,475	46.56%	22,494
	Defiance		10,951		67.89%		5,004		31.02%	175	1.08%	5,947	36.87%	16,130
	Delaware		19,050		76.23%		5,773		23.10%	166	0.66%	13,277	53.13%	24,989
	Erie		19,174		57.83%		13,508		40.74%	472	1.42%	5,666	17.09%	33,154
	Fairfield		30,843		75.17%		9,817		23.92%	373	0.91%	21,026	51.25%	41,033
	Fayette		6,838		75.80%		2,126		23.57%	57	0.63%	4,712	52.23%	9,021
	Franklin		250,360		64.12%		131,530		33.68%	8,584	2.20%	118,830	30.44%	390,474
	Fulton		11,412		72.55%		4,217		26.81%	101	0.64%	7,195	45.74%	15,730
	Gallia		8,194		65.27%		4,251		33.86%	109	0.87%	3,943	31.41%	12,554
	Geauga		22,369		68.29%		9,954		30.39%	431	1.32%	12,415	37.90%	32,754
	Greene		34,267		66.27%		17,129		33.12%	316	0.61%	17,138	33.15%	51,712
	Guernsey		10,252		66.81%		4,967		32.37%	125	0.81%	5,285	34.44%	15,344
	Hamilton		246,288		63.34%		140,350		36.10%	2,177	0.56%	105,938	27.24%	388,815
	Hancock		22,169		78.34%		5,758		20.35%	370	1.31%	16,411	57.99%	28,297
	Hardin		8,722		69.11%		3,813		30.21%	85	0.67%	4,909	38.90%	12,620
	Harrison		4,276		55.45%		3,370		43.70%	66	0.86%	906	11.75%	7,712
	Henry		9,317		76.54%		2,779		22.83%	77	0.63%	6,538	53.71%	12,173
	Highland		9,000		69.90%		3,784		29.39%	91	0.71%	5,216	40.51%	12,875
	Hocking		6,071		64.16%		3,280		34.66%	112	1.18%	2,791	29.50%	9,463
	Holmes		5,146		74.11%		1,737		25.01%	61	0.88%	3,409	49.10%	6,944
	Huron		14,388		67.96%		6,609		31.22%	174	0.82%	7,779	36.74%	21,171
	Jackson		7,411		62.24%		4,369		36.69%	128	1.07%	3,042	25.55%	11,908
	Jefferson		17,105		42.47%		22,832		56.69%	340	0.84%	-5,727	-14.22%	40,277
	Knox		14,062		70.66%		5,730		28.79%	109	0.55%	8,332	41.87%	19,901
	Lake		54,587		59.12%		36,711		39.76%	1,027	1.11%	17,876	19.36%	92,325
	Lawrence		14,793		55.96%		11,431		43.24%	213	0.81%	3,362	12.72%	26,437
	Licking		37,560		72.26%		13,995		26.93%	421	0.81%	23,565	45.33%	51,976
	Logan		12,230		76.54%		3,645		22.81%	104	0.65%	8,585	53.73%	15,979
	Lorain		57,379		50.77%		52,970		46.87%	2,672	2.36%	4,409	3.90%	113,021
	Lucas		100,285		50.25%		97,293		48.76%	1,976	0.99%	2,992	1.49%	199,554
	Madison		8,979		74.91%		2,928		24.43%	80	0.67%	6,051	50.48%	11,987
	Mahoning		53,424		40.65%		76,514		58.21%	1,500	1.14%	-23,090	-17.56%	131,438
	Marion		17,392		65.77%		8,827		33.38%	224	0.85%	8,565	32.39%	26,443
	Medina		30,690		65.38%		15,897		33.86%	357	0.76%	14,793	31.52%	46,944
	Meigs		6,307		63.52%		3,549		35.74%	73	0.74%	2,758	27.78%	9,929
	Mercer		11,542		71.49%		4,422		27.39%	180	1.11%	7,120	44.10%	16,144
	Miami		26,300		72.42%		9,695		26.70%	320	0.88%	16,605	45.72%	36,315
	Monroe		3,302		47.32%		3,611		51.75%	65	0.93%	-309	-4.43%	6,978
	Montgomery		137,053		58.97%		94,016		40.45%	1,333	0.57%	43,037	18.52%	232,402
	Morgan		3,994		67.66%		1,868		31.64%	41	0.69%	2,126	36.02%	5,903
	Morrow		8,116		73.50%		2,839		25.71%	87	0.79%	5,277	47.79%	11,042
	Muskingum		21,821		67.98%		10,037		31.27%	243	0.76%	11,784	36.71%	32,101
	Noble		3,853		67.70%		1,777		31.22%	61	1.07%	2,076	36.48%	5,691
	Ottawa		10,920		60.41%		7,053		39.02%	102	0.56%	3,867	21.39%	18,075
	Paulding		5,545		65.71%		2,811		33.31%	83	0.98%	2,734	32.40%	8,439
	Perry		7,548		65.09%		3,961		34.16%	88	0.76%	3,587	30.93%	11,597
	Pickaway		11,942		73.90%		4,110		25.43%	108	0.67%	7,832	48.47%	16,160
	Pike		6,318		55.90%		4,895		43.31%	89	0.79%	1,423	12.59%	11,302
	Portage		29,536		57.14%		21,719		42.02%	432	0.84%	7,817	15.12%	51,687
	Preble		11,065		71.84%		4,198		27.25%	140	0.91%	6,867	44.59%	15,403
	Putnam		11,936		78.26%		3,194		20.94%	121	0.79%	8,742	57.32%	15,251
	Richland		35,299		68.10%		16,141		31.14%	396	0.76%	19,158	36.96%	51,836
	Ross		17,015		66.60%		8,020		31.39%	513	2.01%	8,995	35.21%	25,548
	Sandusky		17,214		66.16%		8,564		32.91%	242	0.93%	8,650	33.25%	26,020
	Scioto		18,818		56.65%		14,120		42.51%	281	0.85%	4,698	14.14%	33,219
	Seneca		16,520		67.04%		7,905		32.08%	217	0.88%	8,615	34.96%	24,642
	Shelby		13,509		75.12%		4,315		23.99%	159	0.88%	9,194	51.13%	17,983
	Stark		98,434		59.69%		65,157		39.51%	1,325	0.80%	33,277	20.18%	164,916
	Summit		115,637		50.99%		109,569		48.32%	1,574	0.69%	6,068	2.67%	226,780
	Trumbull		45,623		44.18%		56,902		55.11%	734	0.71%	-11,279	-10.93%	103,259
	Tuscarawas		19,366		59.13%		13,149		40.14%	239	0.73%	6,217	18.99%	32,754
	Union		9,336		77.79%		2,579		21.49%	86	0.72%	6,757	56.30%	12,001
	Van Wert		9,570		73.68%		3,338		25.70%	80	0.62%	6,232	47.98%	12,988
	Vinton		3,041		59.80%		1,990		39.13%	54	1.06%	1,051	20.67%	5,085
	Warren		29,848		76.40%		9,031		23.11%	191	0.49%	20,817	53.29%	39,070
	Washington		16,529		66.13%		7,920		31.69%	544	2.18%	8,609	34.44%	24,993
	Wayne		24,475		67.79%		11,323		31.36%	305	0.84%	13,152	36.43%	36,103
	Williams		10,804		74.11%		3,624		24.86%	150	1.03%	7,180	49.25%	14,578
	Wood		29,750		64.74%		15,907		34.62%	297	0.65%	13,843	30.12%	45,954
	Wyandot		7,204		74.81%		2,342		24.32%	84	0.87%	4,862	50.49%	9,630
Totals	2,678,560	58.90%	1,825,440	40.14%	43,619	0.96%	853,119	18.76%	4,547,619

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Works cited

Book: Ranney . Austin . J. Austin Ranney . The American Elections of 1984 . . 1985 . 0822302306.

Notes and References

Web site: 1984 Presidential General Election Results – Ohio. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-02-07.
News: November 7, 1984 . Dems take lead in the U.S. House . 8 . Chillicothe Gazette . live . https://archive.today/20220107151947/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92040548/chillicothe-gazette/ . January 7, 2022 . . January 7, 2022 .
Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016