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Electors of President and Vice-President

Alabama general election, 1980 · Alabama, November 4, 1980

Release · 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412 · Vintage: 2026-09-26

Coverage

Coverage for this dimension is not counted.

Not yet acquired: boundaries are unavailable for these units.

Reported at Alabama, which is a roll-up rather than the finest unit this source publishes.

Result

This release records no declared outcome for this contest. Everything below is computed from the counts.

Ronald Reagan leads Jimmy Carter by 1.3 points of the 1,341,929 votes counted in this contest.

Computed from the counts in this release, not a declaration by an election authority. Margin definition: leading candidacy − runner-up candidacy, each summed across every ballot line it appeared on, over every vote counted in the contest, including lines below the runner-up.

1,341,929 votes counted.

Candidacies

Ordered by votes, descending; candidacies the source has not reported follow the counted ones. A candidacy nominated by more than one party expands to the votes cast on each of its ballot lines.

The leading candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, ordered by votes
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
Ronald Reagan654,19248.8%observed
Jimmy Carter636,73047.4%observed
John B. Anderson16,4811.2%observed
8 more candidacies · 2.6% combined · 34,526 votes (some reported nothing)
The remaining candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, each named individually
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
John Rarick15,0101.1%observed
Edward "Ed" Clark13,3181.0%observed
Benjamin "Ben" Bubar1,7430.1%observed
Gus Hall1,6290.1%observed
Clifton Deberry1,3030.1%observed
David McReynolds1,0060.1%observed
Barry Commoner5170.0%observed
Othernot yet reported—not reported
not yet reported
Not yet reported by the source. A blank is not a zero.

This release carries 11 candidacies for this contest, on 10 separately reported ballot lines. 3 are shown and 8 are behind the control above. No candidacy is combined into an unnamed remainder.

Rules

Stage
general
Voting system
plurality
Seats
1
Certification
certified
Special election
no

Sources

Source: Akashic (legacy build) (certified) · Release 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412

This contest is recorded as contest:legacy-spine:al/1980-11-04/general/presidential-electors and is certified. Cite this page as https://akashic.app/contests/contest:legacy-spine:al/1980-11-04/general/presidential-electors.

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