1984 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1984 Presidential election year November 6 Republican Party (US)Ronald Reagan (R) 99th Republican hold Republican +18.2% Ronald Reagan (R) 525 Walter Mondale (D) 13 1984 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Reagan, blue denotes states won by Mondale. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 33 of 100 seats Republican hold Democratic +2 1984 Senate results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold All 435 voting members Democratic hold Democratic +5.1% Republican +16 400px 1984 House of Representatives results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold 15 (13 states, 2 territories) Republican +1 1984 gubernatorial election resultsTerritorial races not shown #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold Elections were held on November 6, 1984, and elected the members of the 99th United States Congress. Republicans won a landslide victory in the presidential election, picked up seats in the House of Representatives, and successfully defended their Senate majority.Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984 1984 https://books.google.com/books?id=BR5D5TKBQDoC U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk 10 April 2017Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984 (Revision) https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1984election.pdf U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk 1 March 2021 Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan won re-election, defeating Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale.1984 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1984 The American Presidency Project 13 August 2011 Reagan carried every state except for Washington, D.C., and Mondale's home state of Minnesota; won 58.8 percent of the popular vote; and defeated Mondale by a popular vote margin of eighteen points. Reagan remains the only presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972 to win at least 55 percent of the popular vote and win by a margin greater than 10 points. Mondale defeated Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson of Illinois to take the Democratic nomination. Mondale selected New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making Ferraro the first woman to appear on a major party presidential ticket. Democrats picked up two Senate seats, bringing their total to 47 out of 100 seats. Democrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 5.1 percentage points and retained their majority, though Republicans picked up a total of sixteen seats. The party makeup of both chambers of Congress following this election cycle, in which the Democrats had control of the House and the Republicans had control of the Senate, would not be emulated until 2018. In the gubernatorial elections, the Republicans won a net of one seat. See also 1984 United States presidential election 1984 United States House of Representatives elections 1984 United States Senate elections 1984 United States gubernatorial elections References 1984