1980 New Jersey Democratic presidential primary

1980 New Jersey Democratic presidential primaries
June 3, 1980
113 Democratic National Convention delegates
 
Candidate Ted Kennedy Jimmy Carter
Home state Massachusetts Georgia
Delegate count 68 45
Popular vote 315,109 212,387
Percentage 56.2% 37.9%
Main article: 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries

The 1980 New Jersey Democratic presidential primary was held on June 3, 1980, in New Jersey as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1980 United States presidential election. Kennedy defeated Carter by a margin of over 100,000 votes, carrying every county except Cape May, which Carter won by seven votes, and Salem. Despite the landslide popular result, the delegate allocation rules gave Carter a proportional share of the pledged delegates, securing sufficient votes for the nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.

Over 617,000 voters participated in the primary, breaking the record set four years earlier.

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