1984 United States presidential election in Missouri
1984 United States presidential election in Missouri
County Results
Reagan
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
Mondale
50–60%
60–70%
The 1984 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia , were part of the 1984 United States presidential election . Voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president of the United States.
Missouri 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 Vice-president 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 perfectly partisan election in Missouri, with 100% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or the Republican nominee, as only those two appeared on the ballot.[ 1] Accordingly, every county gave either Mondale or Reagan an outright majority: five (including the county-equivalent of the city of St Louis ) gave Mondale a majority; the rest gave Reagan one. Reagan's strongest performance was in Gasconade County , which gave him 80.54% of its ballots; Mondale's was in the city of St Louis, which gave him 64.80%. Missouri weighed in for this election as 2 percentage points more Republican than the national average. Reagan won the state in a landslide, amassing over 60% of the vote, slightly more than his national vote share. Republicans would not win the state again by double digits until 2016.
Reagan performed particularly strongly in its largest county or county-equivalent, suburban St Louis County (which does not include the city of St Louis), where he got 64% of the vote. He also got over 2/3 of the vote in the Show-Me State's fourth-largest county, historically Republican Greene County (home of Springfield ). Mondale scored a strong win in the city of St Louis, where he got 64.8%, and eked out a narrow victory in Jackson County , home of Kansas City . However, he could not match Reagan in rural and small-town Missouri; aside from Jackson County and the city of St Louis, Mondale had only three other wins in Missouri's counties and county-equivalents, with his only convincing win being in the historically secessionist and highly unionized Lead Belt county of Reynolds County (he also narrowly won Oregon and Mississippi Counties). Reagan became the first Republican nominee to sweep Missouri's 'Little Dixie' region, as he became the first Republican ever to carry Monroe County . This feat was repeated by George W. Bush in 2004 (and, excluding Boone County , home to the University of Missouri , by every subsequent Republican nominee as of 2020 ).
Results
Results by county
County
Ronald Reagan Republican
Walter Mondale Democratic
Margin
Total[ 2]
#
%
#
%
#
%
Adair
6,430
67.34%
3,119
32.66%
3,311
34.68%
9,549
Andrew
4,252
63.38%
2,457
36.62%
1,795
26.76%
6,709
Atchison
2,277
65.13%
1,219
34.87%
1,058
30.26%
3,496
Audrain
7,261
60.90%
4,662
39.10%
2,599
21.80%
11,923
Barry
7,683
68.81%
3,483
31.19%
4,200
37.62%
11,166
Barton
3,996
74.78%
1,348
25.22%
2,648
49.56%
5,344
Bates
4,223
59.38%
2,889
40.62%
1,334
18.76%
7,112
Benton
3,805
62.83%
2,251
37.17%
1,554
25.66%
6,056
Bollinger
2,778
59.09%
1,923
40.91%
855
18.18%
4,701
Boone
26,600
57.87%
19,364
42.13%
7,236
15.74%
45,964
Buchanan
19,735
56.22%
15,369
43.78%
4,366
12.44%
35,104
Butler
8,712
64.96%
4,699
35.04%
4,013
29.92%
13,411
Caldwell
2,678
65.96%
1,382
34.04%
1,296
31.92%
4,060
Callaway
8,262
65.63%
4,327
34.37%
3,935
31.26%
12,589
Camden
8,057
72.29%
3,088
27.71%
4,969
44.58%
11,145
Cape Girardeau
17,404
70.32%
7,346
29.68%
10,058
40.64%
24,750
Carroll
3,495
63.84%
1,980
36.16%
1,515
27.68%
5,475
Carter
1,402
60.48%
916
39.52%
486
20.96%
2,318
Cass
14,456
65.79%
7,517
34.21%
6,939
31.58%
21,973
Cedar
3,539
71.08%
1,440
28.92%
2,099
42.16%
4,979
Chariton
2,744
55.01%
2,244
44.99%
500
10.02%
4,988
Christian
7,634
70.31%
3,223
29.69%
4,411
40.62%
10,857
Clark
2,068
55.97%
1,627
44.03%
441
11.94%
3,695
Clay
36,529
61.79%
22,586
38.21%
13,943
23.58%
59,115
Clinton
4,226
60.34%
2,778
39.66%
1,448
20.68%
7,004
Cole
20,366
75.24%
6,702
24.76%
13,664
50.48%
27,068
Cooper
4,603
67.47%
2,219
32.53%
2,384
34.94%
6,822
Crawford
4,716
64.37%
2,610
35.63%
2,106
28.74%
7,326
Dade
2,600
70.27%
1,100
29.73%
1,500
40.54%
3,700
Dallas
3,577
65.29%
1,902
34.71%
1,675
30.58%
5,479
Daviess
2,414
61.27%
1,526
38.73%
888
22.54%
3,940
DeKalb
2,188
59.91%
1,464
40.09%
724
19.82%
3,652
Dent
3,490
57.84%
2,544
42.16%
946
15.68%
6,034
Douglas
3,662
70.45%
1,536
29.55%
2,126
40.90%
5,198
Dunklin
6,092
55.09%
4,967
44.91%
1,125
10.18%
11,059
Franklin
18,669
69.18%
8,319
30.82%
10,350
38.36%
26,988
Gasconade
4,678
80.54%
1,130
19.46%
3,548
61.08%
5,808
Gentry
2,047
56.13%
1,600
43.87%
447
12.26%
3,647
Greene
57,250
67.18%
27,965
32.82%
29,285
34.36%
85,215
Grundy
3,156
62.91%
1,861
37.09%
1,295
25.82%
5,017
Harrison
2,844
63.30%
1,649
36.70%
1,195
26.60%
4,493
Henry
5,419
59.16%
3,741
40.84%
1,678
18.32%
9,160
Hickory
2,190
64.37%
1,212
35.63%
978
28.74%
3,402
Holt
2,087
67.04%
1,026
32.96%
1,061
34.08%
3,113
Howard
2,360
53.96%
2,014
46.04%
346
7.92%
4,374
Howell
8,204
68.53%
3,767
31.47%
4,437
37.06%
11,971
Iron
2,316
53.38%
2,023
46.62%
293
6.76%
4,339
Jackson
132,271
49.48%
135,067
50.52%
-2,796
-1.04%
267,338
Jasper
23,066
71.36%
9,259
28.64%
13,807
42.72%
32,325
Jefferson
34,525
63.29%
20,026
36.71%
14,499
26.58%
54,551
Johnson
8,413
66.50%
4,238
33.50%
4,175
33.00%
12,651
Knox
1,513
57.97%
1,097
42.03%
416
15.94%
2,610
Laclede
6,406
70.62%
2,665
29.38%
3,741
41.24%
9,071
Lafayette
8,581
63.90%
4,848
36.10%
3,733
27.80%
13,429
Lawrence
8,370
69.23%
3,720
30.77%
4,650
38.46%
12,090
Lewis
2,438
55.22%
1,977
44.78%
461
10.44%
4,415
Lincoln
6,137
65.10%
3,290
34.90%
2,847
30.20%
9,427
Linn
3,822
55.12%
3,112
44.88%
710
10.24%
6,934
Livingston
4,090
60.24%
2,699
39.76%
1,391
20.48%
6,789
Macon
4,542
59.93%
3,037
40.07%
1,505
19.86%
7,579
Madison
2,808
60.13%
1,862
39.87%
946
20.26%
4,670
Maries
2,267
62.02%
1,388
37.98%
879
24.04%
3,655
Marion
6,831
59.42%
4,666
40.58%
2,165
18.84%
11,497
McDonald
4,521
68.19%
2,109
31.81%
2,412
36.38%
6,630
Mercer
1,229
58.41%
875
41.59%
354
16.82%
2,104
Miller
6,706
76.55%
2,054
23.45%
4,652
53.10%
8,760
Mississippi
2,502
49.78%
2,524
50.22%
-22
-0.44%
5,026
Moniteau
4,197
72.23%
1,614
27.77%
2,583
44.46%
5,811
Monroe
2,163
52.06%
1,992
47.94%
171
4.12%
4,155
Montgomery
3,261
66.16%
1,668
33.84%
1,593
32.32%
4,929
Morgan
4,392
66.94%
2,169
33.06%
2,223
33.88%
6,561
New Madrid
4,323
53.38%
3,776
46.62%
547
6.76%
8,099
Newton
11,709
71.69%
4,623
28.31%
7,086
43.38%
16,332
Nodaway
5,471
60.21%
3,615
39.79%
1,856
20.42%
9,086
Oregon
1,979
49.41%
2,026
50.59%
-47
-1.18%
4,005
Osage
4,381
76.54%
1,343
23.46%
3,038
53.08%
5,724
Ozark
2,614
70.19%
1,110
29.81%
1,504
40.38%
3,724
Pemiscot
3,733
53.13%
3,293
46.87%
440
6.26%
7,026
Perry
4,493
70.98%
1,837
29.02%
2,656
41.96%
6,330
Pettis
10,991
67.00%
5,413
33.00%
5,578
34.00%
16,404
Phelps
9,012
63.98%
5,074
36.02%
3,938
27.96%
14,086
Pike
3,933
54.28%
3,313
45.72%
620
8.56%
7,246
Platte
12,859
62.64%
7,668
37.36%
5,191
25.28%
20,527
Polk
5,467
65.98%
2,819
34.02%
2,648
31.96%
8,286
Pulaski
5,330
65.04%
2,865
34.96%
2,465
30.08%
8,195
Putnam
1,540
65.90%
797
34.10%
743
31.80%
2,337
Ralls
2,067
50.69%
2,011
49.31%
56
1.38%
4,078
Randolph
5,735
56.19%
4,471
43.81%
1,264
12.38%
10,206
Ray
4,875
55.06%
3,979
44.94%
896
10.12%
8,854
Reynolds
1,330
39.63%
2,026
60.37%
-696
-20.74%
3,356
Ripley
2,927
60.85%
1,883
39.15%
1,044
21.70%
4,810
Saline
6,042
58.53%
4,281
41.47%
1,761
17.06%
10,323
Schuyler
1,250
52.28%
1,141
47.72%
109
4.56%
2,391
Scotland
1,485
58.01%
1,075
41.99%
410
16.02%
2,560
Scott
8,727
61.05%
5,569
38.95%
3,158
22.10%
14,296
Shannon
1,779
52.96%
1,580
47.04%
199
5.92%
3,359
Shelby
2,243
58.78%
1,573
41.22%
670
17.56%
3,816
St. Charles
47,784
73.06%
17,617
26.94%
30,167
46.12%
65,401
St. Clair
2,667
61.71%
1,655
38.29%
1,012
23.42%
4,322
St. Francois
9,792
57.84%
7,137
42.16%
2,655
15.68%
16,929
St. Louis
307,684
63.99%
173,144
36.01%
134,540
27.98%
480,828
St. Louis City
61,020
35.20%
112,318
64.80%
-51,298
-29.60%
173,338
Ste. Genevieve
3,245
54.37%
2,723
45.63%
522
8.74%
5,968
Stoddard
6,701
60.95%
4,294
39.05%
2,407
21.90%
10,995
Stone
5,706
72.92%
2,119
27.08%
3,587
45.84%
7,825
Sullivan
2,306
56.38%
1,784
43.62%
522
12.76%
4,090
Taney
7,082
70.86%
2,912
29.14%
4,170
41.72%
9,994
Texas
5,591
60.42%
3,662
39.58%
1,929
20.84%
9,253
Vernon
5,181
63.45%
2,984
36.55%
2,197
26.90%
8,165
Warren
5,150
72.39%
1,964
27.61%
3,186
44.78%
7,114
Washington
3,755
55.70%
2,987
44.30%
768
11.40%
6,742
Wayne
2,867
54.82%
2,363
45.18%
504
9.64%
5,230
Webster
5,529
64.96%
2,982
35.04%
2,547
29.92%
8,511
Worth
921
55.65%
734
44.35%
187
11.30%
1,655
Wright
4,687
70.38%
1,973
29.62%
2,714
40.76%
6,660
Totals
1,274,188
60.02%
848,583
39.98%
425,605
20.04%
2,122,771
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
See also
References
^ "1984 Presidential General Election Results – Missouri" . Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 11, 2013 .
^ Missouri Secretary of State, ‘General Election Returns Vote for President, By Counties, at General Election November 6, 1984’ Official Manual State of Missouri 1985-1986 (Jefferson City, 1985)