2022 Dixie Presidential Election (Divided States of America)

The 2022 Dixie Presidential Election was the fourth quadrennial presidential election in the Federation of Dixie. The National Christian ticket of Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and Alabama Representative Barry Moore defeated the United Labor ticket of Mike Espy and North Florida Representative Charlie Crist.

Incumbent President Richard Shelby of the NCP chose not to run for a second term early on, leading to a battle between Tate Reeves and Vice President Rick Scott. Eventually, Reeves narrowly beat out Scott to win the nomination. In the ULP, 2018 Vice Presidential nominee Stacy Abrams was expected to be the front runner, until Mike Espy, who had served as a Representative of Mississippi before the Collapse, entered the race and challenged her.

Widely seen in the party as more electable than Abrams, Espy won the nomination, and chose North Florida Representative Charlie Crist as his running mate. In the election, the main issues were domestic and foreign once again, such as President Shelby's declaration of the ANTIFA organization as terrorists, and the status of the ACD's statehood movement. Regarding foreign policy, Espy changed tunes from past nominees, instead of campaigning to leave the SoBlock, he campaigned to reform the SoBlock and work more closely with it.

He also supported further cooperation with the Atlantic Union, while Reeves supported becoming an observer of the AU, and renewing the DXTX Trade Deal. On election day, Reeves, as predicted, won in a landslide, though Espy improved significantly on the ULP's last ticket, winning around a million more votes. This was especially surprising considering the previous ULP Schism in 2019. However, the loss also prompted the ULP to change its strategy in future elections.

This was the last election in which third parties could not obtain ballot access in all states.