Election of 2084 (Durant Scenario)

The election of 2084 was held in November between the Democratic and Republican parties. Democratic President Alistair Durant of Texas handily defeated Republican nominee former Vice President Martin Davies, a Democrat. Their vice presidential picks were sitting Vice President Melissa Harrison and former Governor Ada Wilkinson of Arkansas. Durant won the Democratic Presidential Primary of 2084 (Durant Scenario) in a landslide, and it was widely expected that he would again. This was the third election to use the electoral map established by the 2080 census because there were no changes to the electoral map following the 2080 census when the population was calculated per the Constitution. Durant carried every state that he had won in 2080 by increased margins (except New York, which became slightly redder but did not flip); he also picked up North Dakota, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, a grand total of 539 electoral votes with over 63% of the popular vote, defeating his own landslide record from 2080. The Davies-Wilkinson ticket carried a meager 3 electoral votes. This was the worst showing for a presidential candidate since the election of 1820, when James Monroe won re-election with over 80% of the popular vote. This was the second of nine Democratic victories on the national level consecutively and resulted in the Ninth Party System.