Mondale carried
Tompkins County, home of the college town of
Ithaca. He was only the third Democrat to do so since the
Civil War, after
Woodrow Wilson in
1912 and
Lyndon B. Johnson in
1964. Reagan thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since the Republican Party's founding in 1854. Mondale managing to win Tompkins County even whilst losing the national popular vote by over 18% indicated the county's strong Democratic trend; it has given every subsequent Democratic nominee a double-digit margin, every Democrat from 2004 on over 60%, and every Democrat from 2008 on over 66% of its vote. This was among a handful of counties nationwide that flipped against Reagan. , this remains the last time that New York has been carried by a Republican presidential nominee, as well as the last time that
Schenectady County has done so. Broome and Niagara counties would not vote Republican again until 2016. ==See also==