1984 United States elections

{{Infobox United States elections

| year = 1984

| type = Presidential election year

| election_day = November 6

| incumbent_president = Ronald Reagan (Republican)

| next_congress = 99th

| president_control = Republican hold

| president_pv_margin = Republican +18.2%

| president_candidate1 = Ronald Reagan (R)

| electoral_vote1 = 525

| president_candidate2 = Walter Mondale (D)

| electoral_vote2 = 13

| president_map = {{United States presidential election, 1984 imagemap}}

| president_map_caption = 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.

| senate_seats_contested = 33 of 100 seats

| senate_control = Republican hold

| senate_net_change = Democratic +2

| senate_map = {{1984 United States Senate elections imagemap}}

| senate_map_caption = 1984 Senate results{{paragraph break}}

| house_seats_contested = All 435 voting members

| house_control = Democratic hold

| house_pv_margin = Democratic +5.1%

| house_net_change = Republican +16

| house_map = 400px

| house_map_caption = 1984 House of Representatives results{{paragraph break}}

| governor_seats_contested = 15 (13 states, 2 territories)

| governor_net_change = Republican +1

| governor_map = {{1984 United States gubernatorial elections imagemap}}

| governor_map_caption = 1984 gubernatorial election results
Territorial races not shown{{paragraph break}}

| legend =

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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.{{cite web|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984|year = 1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BR5D5TKBQDoC|publisher=U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk|access-date=10 April 2017}}{{cite web|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984 (Revision)|url=https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1984election.pdf|publisher=U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk|access-date=1 March 2021}}

Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan won re-election, defeating Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale.{{cite web|title=1984 Presidential Election|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1984|publisher=The American Presidency Project|access-date=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.

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