1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries

From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to August 14, 1980, in New York City.

1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries
January 21 to June 3, 1980
3,346 delegates to the Democratic National Convention
1,674 delegates votes needed to win
 
Candidate Jimmy Carter Ted Kennedy Uncommitted
Home state Georgia Massachusetts N/A
Delegate count 2,123 1,151 0
Contests won 36 12 2
Popular vote 10,043,016 7,381,693 1,288,423
Percentage 51.1% 37.6% 6.6%
Results of the 1980 Democratic National Convention
Previous Democratic nominee

Jimmy Carter

 Democratic nominee

Jimmy Carter

Carter faced a major primary challenger in Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who won 12 contests and received more than seven million votes nationwide, enough for him to refuse to concede the nomination until the second day of the convention. This remains the last primary election in which an incumbent president's party nomination was still contested going into the convention.

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