The American Vote
2024 result
Candidate

Walter Mondale

Democratic

Elections
1
Won
0
Electoral votes, all elections
13
Years
1984

Record

Walter Mondale: result of each presidential election
YearElectoral votesPopular voteResult
1984
13
of 538
37,577,137
40.6%
Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1984 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

SourcesMIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. President 1976–2024 (CC0 1.0, retrieved 2026-10-03); Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 84 (Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

1984Democratic · Lost

States carried · 2 of 51
Closest states won
  1. Minnesotaby 3,761 · 0.2 pts
  2. District of Columbiaby 151,399 · 71.7 pts
Closest states lost
  1. MassachusettsReagan by 71,330 · 2.8 pts
  2. Rhode IslandReagan by 14,974 · 3.6 pts
  3. MarylandReagan by 91,983 · 5.5 pts

Margins computed for 51 of 51 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Mondale.

SourcesMIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. President 1976–2024 (CC0 1.0, retrieved 2026-10-03); Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 84 (Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

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