(Wednesday, July 18, 1984, evening PDT) — Former Vice President Walter Mondale was nominated for president tonight on the first ballot at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, defeating Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado 2,191-1,201.

Mondale’s choice for vice president, Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the first woman to receive a major party’s national ticket in the U.S., would be officially nominated by acclamation on a voice vote the following day.

The Mondale-Ferraro ticket would oppose the Republican ticket of President Ronald Reagan-Vice President George H.W. Bush (nominated in August 1984) in the 1984 general election.