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    Electors of President and Vice-President

    Illinois general election, 1984 · Illinois, November 6, 1984

    Release · 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412 · Vintage: 2026-09-26

    Coverage

    Coverage for this dimension is not counted.

    Not yet acquired: boundaries are unavailable for these units.

    Reported at Illinois, which is a roll-up rather than the finest unit this source publishes.

    Result

    This release records no declared outcome for this contest. Everything below is computed from the counts.

    Ronald Reagan leads Walter E Mondale by 12.9 points of the 4,819,088 votes counted in this contest.

    Computed from the counts in this release, not a declaration by an election authority. Margin definition: leading candidacy − runner-up candidacy, each summed across every ballot line it appeared on, over every vote counted in the contest, including lines below the runner-up.

    4,819,088 votes counted.

    Candidacies

    Ordered by votes, descending; candidacies the source has not reported follow the counted ones. A candidacy nominated by more than one party expands to the votes cast on each of its ballot lines.

    The leading candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, ordered by votes
    CandidacyVotesShareObservation
    Ronald Reagan2,707,10356.2%observed
    Walter E Mondale2,086,49943.3%observed
    David Bergland10,0860.2%observed
    6 more candidacies · 0.3% combined · 15,400 votes
    The remaining candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, each named individually
    CandidacyVotesShareObservation
    Gus Hall4,6720.1%observed
    Sonia Johnson2,7160.1%observed
    Edward Winn2,6320.1%observed
    Dennis Serrette2,3860.0%observed
    Melvin Mason2,1320.0%observed
    Other8620.0%observed

    This release carries 9 candidacies for this contest, on 9 separately reported ballot lines. 3 are shown and 6 are behind the control above. No candidacy is combined into an unnamed remainder.

    Rules

    Stage
    general
    Voting system
    plurality
    Seats
    1
    Certification
    certified
    Special election
    no

    Sources

    Source: Akashic (legacy build) (certified) · Release 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412

    This contest is recorded as contest:legacy-spine:il/1984-11-06/general/presidential-electors and is certified. Cite this page as https://akashic.app/contests/contest:legacy-spine:il/1984-11-06/general/presidential-electors.

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