was the second-most lopsided presidential election in modern U.S. history; Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 victory over Alf Landon, in which he won 98.5 percent or 523 of the then-total 531 electoral votes, ranks first. His popular vote margin of victory—nearly 16.9 million votes (54.4 million for Reagan to 37.5 million for Mondale)—was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his 1972 victory over George McGovern, and Reagan is the most recent presidential candidate, as of 2022, to win the popular vote by a margin of greater than 10 million votes and by a margin of greater than 10%. Reagan was also the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to be re-elected while winning absolute popular vote majorities in both of his presidential campaigns and was the first presidential candidate in history to win more than 50 million votes. Reagan's raw vote total would stand as the largest number of votes received in a presidential election until 2004. Reagan, at 73 years old, would be the oldest winner of a presidential election until Biden won the 2020 election at the age of 77. As of 2020, no Republican candidate has since won New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Oregon, Hawaii, or Rhode Island. West Virginia would not vote Republican again until 2000, while Iowa would not until 2004. This would also be the last time Wisconsin voted for a Republican candidate until 2016. Nominations Republican Party candidates Ronald Reagan, President of the United States Ben Fernandez, former Special Ambassador to Paraguay from California Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota Primaries Reagan was the assured nominee for the Republican Party, with only token opposition. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows: Ronald Reagan (inc.): 6,484,987 (98.6%) Unpledged delegates: 41,411 (0.6%) Others: 21,643 (0.3%) "Ronald Reagan No": 14,047 (0.2%) Harold E. Stassen: 12,749 (0.2%) David Kelly: 360 Gary Arnold: 252 Benjamin Fernandez: 202 Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 delegates (two delegates abstained). For the only time in American history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential roll call. Vice President George H. W. Bush was overwhelmingly renominated. This was the last time in the 20th century that the vice-presidential candidate of either major party was nominated by roll call vote. Democratic Party candidates Walter Mondale, former Vice President and former U.S. senator from Minnesota Reubin Askew, former governor of Florida Alan Cranston, U.S. senator from California