Jimmy Carter Electoral College Loss

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Jimmy carter electoral college loss. The electoral college vote was a landslide with 489 votes representing 44 states for reagan and 49 for carter representing six states and washington d c. Jimmy carter got the record on march 22 2019. Carter s close fought victory in the electoral college reflected his ability to attract southern democrats who now leaned republican in presidential elections to his side and produced an.

Republican ronald reagan won 525 electoral votes against democrat walter mondale who got only 13 electoral votes. This happened once more in 1980 which also involved carter. President jimmy carter takes questions from members of the press at a presidential news conference at the old executive office building on april 15 1977 in washington dc.

This is the most recent presidential election when the democratic candidate would emerge victorious with less than 300 electoral votes. Nbc news projected reagan as the winner at 8 15 pm est 5 15 pst before voting was finished in the west based on exit polls. History of the united states 1964 1980.

Credit david hume. Cnn the last president facing re election troubles like donald trump s was jimmy carter in 1980. The polls did not lie.

It was the first time a broadcast network used exit polling to project a winner and took the other broadcast networks by surprise. When the election returns were released the president had lost by nearly 10. Reagan won 489 electoral votes against democrat jimmy carter who got only 49 electoral votes.

Indeed in 1976 when democrat jimmy carter won a slim popular vote victory but a solid electoral college win gerald ford the republican incumbent actually won 10 of the 14 states with 3 or 4. Mcgovern who got only 17 electoral votes. Injured by recession and impotent against a national crisis carter lost big.