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The 1984 VA-06th Congressional Election, the close reelection of 1982 Freshman Jim Olin would start a career that would see him run virtually unnoposed in the Unionist republican heartland of Virginia—the Blue Ridge mountains of the Shenandoah Valley.
In both his 1982 and 1984 Elections, Olin was an eccentric, insurgent, critic of Ronald Reagan and the status quo running against two people who represented it, in 1984, that would be Ray Garland.
In winning, Olin overpowered the North of the Shenandoah with his strength in the historically republican Roanoke as well as the industrial cities of Covington and Clifton as well as Harry Byrd's home town of Harrisonburg in the north of the district.
Here, Olin further heavily outperformed Walter Mondale and Edythe Harrison, whom lost the district by 32.1% in the presidential election and 49.1% in the senate election respectively.
1984 Presidential Election in VA-06th
1984 Virginia Senate Election in VA-06th
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