1984 United States Presidential Election (President John Glenn)

The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President]] Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981-1982. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the second presidential candidate to do so after Richard Nixon's victory in the 1972 presidential election. Mondale's only electoral votes came from his home state of Minnesota which he won by fewer than 3,800 votes and the District of Columbia, which has always been considered a Democratic guarantee. Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. Mondale's 13 electoral votes is also the 2nd-least ever received by a second-place candidate, second only to Alf Landon's 8 in 1936. In the national popular vote, Reagan received 58.8% to Mondale's 40.6%.

Republican Party candidates
Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1984


 * Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from California
 * Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota
 * Ben Fernandez, Republican National Hispanic Assembly Chairman from California

Primaries
Ronald Reagan—the incumbent president—was the assured nominee for the Republican Party. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows:
 * Ronald Reagan (inc.): 6,484,987 (98.78%)
 * Unpledged delegates: 55,458 (0.85%)
 * Harold Stassen: 12,749 (0.19%)
 * Benjamin Fernandez: 202 (0.00%)

Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 (two delegates abstained). For the only time in American history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential roll call. Vice President George H. W. Bush was overwhelmingly renominated. This was the last time in the 20th century that the Vice Presidential candidate of either major party was nominated by roll call vote.