2084 United States presidential election



The 2084 United States presidential election was the 75th quadrennial United States presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2084. The Green ticket of activist and educator Annie Brown and Senator from New Jersey Sara Ribo defeated the incumbent Republican ticket of Caleb Webber and Justin Gordon; they also defeated the Democratic ticket of Porter Romney and Sheldon Ackerman, and the Fair Elections ticket of Clayton Hanson and Rachael Cohen. 2084 was the first election without an Electoral College, due to the myriad political reforms sparked by the contentious 2080 election and the Louisiana Rebellion. This also meant that no states were using ranked choice voting this election, a first since 2016.

The 2084 presidential election was the first time since 2068, when Álvaro Hunter was elected, that a presidential candidate won an outright majority of the popular vote. This was also the first ever presidential election in which a candidate from the Green Party was elected president, the first in which a candidate received over 150 million votes, and the first in which four candidates took over 5% of the vote each since 1912.

Annie Brown's 30.04% margin of victory nationwide was the largest margin of victory achieved by any presidential candidate since 1820, when president James Monroe took over 80% of the vote and ran largely unopposed. The 70.2% turnout was the highest since 1900.

Background
Annie Brown was the Green candidate for the presidency in every election from 2072 to 2088. Despite her losing three presidential elections in a row, her strong base of support, as well as her popular vote victory in 2080, meant she easily won the Green primary in 2084. President Caleb Webber had a spike in approval following the Louisiana Rebellion, but became deeply unpopular after he made his opposition to the 35th Amendment, which abolished the Electoral College, public. Vice President Christine Cho resigned on 31 December 2081, citing "family concerns;" however, most political observers at the time chalked it up to her more left-leaning views clashing with Webber's moderate to center-right views. Justin Gordon, the Leader of the Opposition in the U.S. House of Representatives, was chosen to replace her in January 2082.

In popular culture
A book called Revealed: How the Green Party Rose to Dominance in American Politics, written by election analyst Houston Loring, analyzed the Green Party's rapid rise to major party status in American politics from the 2064 election, when they won just 3% of the national popular vote, to the 2084 election, when they won an outright majority of the popular vote and most U.S. states.

Close states
Margin of victory less than 1%:
 * 1) West Virginia, 0.31%
 * 2) Alabama, 0.77%

Margin of victory between 1% and 5%:
 * 1) South Dakota, 3.36%
 * 2) Arkansas, 3.70%
 * 3) Montana, 4.33%

Margin of victory between 5% and 10%:
 * 1) Kentucky, 5.50%
 * 2) Nebraska, 9.47%

Margin of victory between 10% and 20%:
 * 1) Wyoming, 10.63%
 * 2) Utah, 10.77%
 * 3) North Dakota, 11.38%
 * 4) Oklahoma, 12.37%
 * 5) Missouri, 13.76%
 * 6) Arizona, 14.44%
 * 7) Idaho, 15.37%
 * 8) Indiana, 15.82%
 * 9) Iowa, 16.54%
 * 10) Texas, 18.81%
 * 11) Tennessee, 19.88%

Closest to national average:
 * 1) California, 29.77%