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  US President - Citizen's Party Convention
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Parents > United States > U.S. Executive
OfficePresident
HonorificPresident - Abbr: President
Type Primary Election
Filing Deadline August 01, 1984 - 12:00pm Central
Polls Open August 09, 1984 - 12:00am Central
Polls Close August 12, 1984 - 12:00pm Central
Term Start January 20, 1985 - 12:00pm
Term End January 20, 1989 - 12:00pm
ContributorChronicler
Last ModifiedChronicler December 21, 2008 06:57pm
Data SourcesOhio Elects the President, p. 159.
Description
The Citizen's Party in the first Reagan Administration

In its first election, the Citizen's Party fared well for a new party. Its presidential nominee, Barry Commoner, placed a respectable fifth with over 230,000 votes. In 1982, the Citizens Party offered two candidates for Governor (PA and TX), three candidates for the Senate (PA, TX, and VT), and 15 candidates for the U.S. House.

The Party held a national convention on 9/4/1983 to discuss strategy for the 1984 election. Commoner had decided to support Jesse Jackson for President, saying that Jackson "represents the best hope ... of uniting the movements for civil rights, environmentalism, a sensible energy policy, and women's rights into an effective movement..." [New York Times, 8/30/1983]. The delegates, meeting in San Francisco, voted to run a national ticket in 1984 but put off the choice of a ticket until the spring of 1984 [NYT 9/5/1983]. Commoner later reported that the delegates feared that supporting Jackson would make the Citizen's Party a "pressure group" within the Democratic Party and did not want to nominate him [NYT 10/17/1983].

The Socialist Party meeting in New York City on 9/3–5/1983 chose not to nominate candidates of its own and voted to try to run a joint ticket with the Citizens Party.

On 10/22/1983, Sonia Johnson announced she would seek the presidential nomination of the Citizen's Party in 1984. Johnson had been excommunicated from the Mormon Church in 1979 as a res

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LAST GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyRepublican Won12/15/1980
NameRonald Reagan Votes489 (90.89%)
Term01/20/1981 - 01/20/1985 Margin440 (+81.78%)
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  PartyRepublican Won12/17/1984
NameRonald Reagan Votes525 (97.58%)
Term01/20/1985 - 01/20/1989 Margin512 (+95.17%)
NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
RaceUS President 12/17/1984

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Certified Votes 185 (88.52%) 24 (11.48%)  
Margin0 (0.00%) -161 (-77.03%)  
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