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The '''1980 United States presidential election in Georgia''' took place on November 4, 1980, in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] as part of the [[1980 United States presidential election]]. The [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate, [[incumbent]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]], won his home state of Georgia over former [[Governor of California|California Governor]] [[Ronald Reagan]] by 238,565 votes, one of just seven victories in the election (other than Georgia, Carter also carried [[Maryland]], [[Minnesota]], [[Hawaii]], [[West Virginia]], the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]] and [[Rhode Island]]).
Georgia weighed in as 25 points more Democratic than the national average: slightly down from 1976, when the Peach State was 32 points more Democratic than the nation at large. Just four years later, Georgia would flip back to Republican territory and vote Republican in every election since except for the narrow victories of [[Bill Clinton]] in [[1992 United States presidential election in Georgia|1992]] and [[Joe Biden]] in [[2020 United States presidential election in Georgia|2020]]. This is also the last time a Democrat won Georgia by a double-digit margin, and received a majority of the vote, and the last time that a Republican won the presidency without carrying Georgia. This was the last time until [[Donald Trump]] lost Virginia in 2016 that a Republican was elected without winning every former Confederate state. This was the first election since 1956 that the state voted for the same party in consecutive elections.
{{As of|2020|11|alt=As of the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]]}}, this is the last electiontime Georgia voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole. It is also the last in which the counties of [[McDuffie County, Georgia|McDuffie]], [[Towns County, Georgia|Towns]], [[Gilmer County, Georgia|Gilmer]], [[Whitfield County, Georgia|Whitfield]], [[Union County, Georgia|Union]], [[Rabun County, Georgia|Rabun]], [[Stephens County, Georgia|Stephens]], [[Jackson County, Georgia|Jackson]], [[Banks County, Georgia|Banks]], [[Murray County, Georgia|Murray]], [[Habersham County, Georgia|Habersham]], [[Madison County, Georgia|Madison]], [[Hall County, Georgia|Hall]], [[White County, Georgia|White]], [[Dawson County, Georgia|Dawson]], [[Gordon County, Georgia|Gordon]], [[Paulding County, Georgia|Paulding]], [[Spalding County, Georgia|Spalding]], [[Troup County, Georgia|Troup]], [[Forsyth County, Georgia|Forsyth]], [[Upson County, Georgia|Upson]], [[Coweta County, Georgia|Coweta]], [[Effingham County, Georgia|Effingham]], [[Glascock County, Georgia|Glascock]], [[Bulloch County, Georgia|Bulloch]], [[Houston County, Georgia|Houston]], [[Bartow County, Georgia|Bartow]], [[Oconee County, Georgia|Oconee]], [[Glynn County, Georgia|Glynn]], [[Cherokee County, Georgia|Cherokee]], [[Toombs County, Georgia|Toombs]], [[Thomas County, Georgia|Thomas]], [[Floyd County, Georgia|Floyd]], [[Colquitt County, Georgia|Colquitt]], [[Camden County, Georgia|Camden]], [[Echols County, Georgia|Echols]], [[Charlton County, Georgia|Charlton]], [[Pierce County, Georgia|Pierce]], [[Coffee County, Georgia|Coffee]], [[Bryan County, Georgia|Bryan]], [[Walton County, Georgia|Walton]], [[Oglethorpe County, Georgia|Oglethorpe]], [[Evans County, Georgia|Evans]], [[Tattnall County, Georgia|Tattnall]], [[Tift County, Georgia|Tift]], [[Pike County, Georgia|Pike]], [[Harris County, Georgia|Harris]], [[Carroll County, Georgia|Carroll]], [[Appling County, Georgia|Appling]], [[Barrow County, Georgia|Barrow]], and [[Wayne County, Georgia|Wayne]] voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.<ref name="How">Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> It is also the last occasion [[Ware County, Georgia|Ware County]] gave a majority to a Democratic presidential candidate, although [[Bill Clinton]] and incumbent president [[George H. W. Bush]] tied there with 4,573 votes in [[1992 United States presidential election in Georgia|1992]].
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