Incumbent President Ronald Reagan won reelection in the 1984 presidential election defeating Walter Mondale. In the 1984 election Ronald Reagan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. Walter Mondale received 10 electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and 3 electoral votes from the District of Columbia. The popular vote totals were Reagan 54,455,472 and Mondale 37,577,352.
Walter Mondale received a total of 13 votes (2.4%) in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, including the 10 votes from his home state of Minnesota and the 3 votes from D.C., which always votes very strongly Democratic.
69 votes
A person needs 270 electoral votes to win an election.
Incumbent President Ronald Reagan won reelection in the 1984 presidential election defeating Walter Mondale. In the 1984 election Ronald Reagan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. Walter Mondale received 10 electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and 3 electoral votes from the District of Columbia. The popular vote totals were Reagan 54,455,472 and Mondale 37,577,352.
It had 27 electoral votes.
9 votes
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
A candidate must win 270 of the 538 votes to win the election.
270 votes
If you are referring to the November 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama received 69,456,897 votes, giving him 365 electoral votes. If you are asking about the 2012 presidential election, President Obama won 65,899,660 votes, and 332 electoral votes.
He got 4,850,157 votes which were 55.9 percent of whole votes.
66,882,230