Texas Presidential Election, 1985 (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

The Republic of Texas presidential election of 1985 was the 17th quadrennial Texan presidental election, held on Saturday, March 2, 1985. The Bloque Acadie ticket of former Acadian Premier Jean-Jacques François Lamarque and Alsatian lawyer Johann Arp defeated the Conservative Progressive ticket of Columbia Lt. Governor James Robert Scott and law enforcement officer Calvin Ford. Lamarque took office as the 17th president, and Scott as Vice President on March 10, 1985.

The election was the most controversal in Texas history as it was the first to have a non-major party win national elections against a nationally established party. In the days following the election, pro-unification pundits and residents took to the streets and media and declared the results to be a farce and demanded that the votes be recounted.