1984 United States presidential election in New York: Difference between revisions

| percentage2 = 45.83%

| map_image = New york presidential results 1984.svg

| map_caption = County Results

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| style="width: 130px" | [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]

| ''Walter Mondale''

| align="right" | 44.09%

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===Results by county===

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! colspan="1" rowspan="2" |County

! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Various candidates<br/>Other parties

! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Margin

A portent of the future was seen in Mondale carrying [[Tompkins County, New York|Tompkins County]], home of the college town of [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]]. He was only the third Democrat to do so since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], after [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1912 United States presidential election in New York|1912]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in [[1964 United States presidential election in New York|1964]];<ref name="Geography261265">Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 261-265 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> Reagan thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since the Republican Party's founding in 1854. Mondale managing to win Tompkins County even whilst losing the national popular vote by over 18% indicated the county's strong Democratic trend; it has given every subsequent Democratic nominee a double-digit margin, every Democrat from 2004 on over 60%, and every Democrat from 2008 on over 66% of its vote. This was among a handful of counties nationwide that flipped against Reagan.{{efn|Along with [[Keweenaw County, Michigan]], [[Marin County, California]], [[Santa Cruz County, California]], [[Tompkins County, New York]], [[Arlington County, Virginia]], [[Alexandria, Virginia]], and [[Lane County, Oregon]].}}

 

 

==See also==