was to win an even greater Electoral College majority in 1984, the 1980 election nonetheless stands as the last time some currently very strong Democratic counties gave a Republican majority or plurality. Notable examples are Jefferson County in Washington State, Lane County, Oregon, Marin and Santa Cruz Counties in California, McKinley County, New Mexico, and Rock Island County, Illinois. This election is the last time a Republican won the presidency without winning Georgia. This is the first time Massachusetts voted for the Republican candidate since 1956. 1980 is one of only two occurrences of a pair of consecutive elections seeing the incumbent president defeated, the other one happening in 1892. This is the only time in the 20th century a party was voted out after a single four-year term, and the first since 1892. This would not occur again until 2020. Survey research and post-election polling indicated that the landslide result had been more a repudiation of Carter than an embrace of Reagan and his conservatism. However, the public was aware that Reagan would move the nation in a more conservative direction, and were, apparently, willing to give it a chance to avoid four more years of Carter. At 69 years old, Reagan was the oldest non-incumbent to win a presidential election. Thirty-six years later in 2016 this record was surpassed by Donald Trump at 70 years old. It was then surpassed again by Joe Biden who was elected at 77 years old in 2020. Results Source (popular vote): Source (electoral vote): Results by state Maine allowed its electoral votes to be split between candidates. Two electoral votes were awarded to the winner of the statewide race and one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. Reagan won all four votes. Close states Margin of victory less than 1% (30 electoral votes): Massachusetts, 0.15% (3,829 votes) Tennessee, 0.29% (4,710 votes) Arkansas, 0.61% (5,123 votes) Margin of victory less than 5% (135 electoral votes): Alabama, 1.30% (17,462 votes) Mississippi, 1.32% (11,808 votes) Kentucky, 1.46% (18,857 votes) South Carolina, 1.53% (13,647 votes) Hawaii, 1.90% (5,767 votes) North Carolina, 2.12% (39,383 votes) Delaware, 2.33% (5,498 votes) New York, 2.67% (165,459 votes) Maryland, 2.96% (45,555 votes) Maine's 1st Congressional District, 3.15% (8,661 votes) Maine, 3.36% (17,548 votes) Maine's 2nd Congressional District, 3.73% (8,887 votes) Minnesota, 3.94% (80,933 votes) West Virginia, 4.51% (33,256 votes) Wisconsin, 4.72% (107,261 votes) Margin of victory more than