1984 United States Presidential Election

== 1984 United States Presidential Election ==
The 1984 United States Presidential Election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. The Republican ticket of incumbent vice president John B. Anderson defeated the Democratic ticket of West Virginia senator Jay Rockefeller and the National ticket of Tennessee representative Thomas J. Anderson, winning an electoral plurality of 242 states and 47.38% of the popular vote. It would mark the first Presidential election following the implementation of the Inouye-Kennedy Election Act of 1983, which implemented a plurality electoral vote majority threshold for Presidential electoral victories. 
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