The 1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 4, 1980, in West Virginia as part of the 1980 United States presidential election.
The Democratic Party candidate, incumbentPresidentJimmy Carter, won the state over former California GovernorRonald Reagan by 33,356 votes, giving him one of just seven victories in the election (other than West Virginia, Carter also carried Maryland, Minnesota, Hawaii, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia and his home state of Georgia).
Nationally, Reagan won the election with 489 electoral votes and 50.75% of the popular vote.
As of 2021, this is the last time West Virginia voted to the left of Massachusetts.
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1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia[1]