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The '''1980 United States presidential election''' was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The Republican ticket of Ronald Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld defeated Democratic former president George Wallace and Clay Smothers and incumbent Progressive president Fidel Castro and incumbent vice president Jimmy Carter. Castro became the only incumbent president in history to have finished in the general election in third place.