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List of United States Democratic Party presidential tickets

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This is a list of the candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the modern Democratic Party of the United States.

Election year Result Nominees
President Vice President
1828 won Senator Andrew Jackson[1] Vice President John C. Calhoun[1][2]
1832 won Secretary of State Martin Van Buren
1836 won Vice President Martin Van Buren Senator Richard Mentor Johnson[3]
1840 lost
1844 won Governor James K. Polk Senator George M. Dallas
1848 lost Senator Lewis Cass Congressman William O. Butler
1852 won Senator Franklin Pierce Senator William R. King[4]
1856 won Ambassador James Buchanan Congressman John C. Breckinridge
1860 lost Senator Stephen A. Douglas (Northern)[5] Governor Herschel Vespasian Johnson[5]

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1864 lost General George B. McClellan Congressman George H. Pendleton
1868 lost Governor Horatio Seymour Congressman Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
1872 lost Congressman Horace Greeley[6] Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown
1876 lost[7] Governor Samuel J. Tilden Governor Thomas A. Hendricks
1880 lost General Winfield Scott Hancock Congressman William H. English
1884 won Governor Grover Cleveland Governor Thomas A. Hendricks[4]
1888 lost[7] Senator Allen G. Thurman
1892 won Congressman Adlai E. Stevenson I
1896 lost Congressman William Jennings Bryan Arthur Sewall
1900 lost Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I
1904 lost Judge Alton B. Parker Senator Henry G. Davis
1908 lost Congressman William Jennings Bryan Senator John W. Kern
1912 won Governor Woodrow Wilson Senator Thomas R. Marshall
1916 won
1920 lost Governor James M. Cox Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt
1924 lost Ambassador John W. Davis Governor Charles W. Bryan
1928 lost Governor Al Smith Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson
1932 won Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt[4] Speaker of the House John Nance Garner
1936 won
1940 won Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
1944 won Senator Harry S. Truman
1948 won President Harry S. Truman Senator Alben W. Barkley
1952 lost Governor Adlai Stevenson Senator John Sparkman
1956 lost Senator Estes Kefauver
1960 won Senator John F. Kennedy[8] Senator Lyndon Johnson
1964 won President Lyndon Johnson Senator Hubert Humphrey
1968 lost Vice President Hubert Humphrey Senator Edmund Muskie
1972 lost Senator George McGovern Ambassador Sargent Shriver[9]
1976 won Governor Jimmy Carter Senator Walter Mondale
1980 lost
1984 lost Former Vice President Walter Mondale Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro
1988 lost Governor Michael Dukakis Senator Lloyd Bentsen
1992 won Governor Bill Clinton Senator Al Gore
1996 won
2000 lost[7] Vice President Al Gore Senator Joe Lieberman
2004 lost Senator John Kerry Senator John Edwards
2008 TBD Senator Barack Obama
Senator Joe Biden


Notes

  1. ^ a b No national nominating convention was held by the party until 1832; the candidates were nominated by state legislatures and state conventions for the election of 1828.
  2. ^ Resigned from office.
  3. ^ The national nominating convention made no nomination in 1840. Most Van Buren electors voted for the incumbent Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky for the vice presidency; others voted for Littleton Waller Tazewell of Virginia and James K. Polk of Tennessee in the election of 1840.
  4. ^ a b c Died in office (natural causes).
  5. ^ a b Douglas and Herschel Vespasian Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the national nominating convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. The convention bolters soon formed their own separate national nominating convention where Breckinridge and Lane were nominated.
  6. ^ The Greeley/Brown ticket was nominated by the Liberal Republican Party and then by the Democrats. Greeley died shortly after the election, before the electoral vote was cast.
  7. ^ a b c Lost the election in the electoral college, but had the most popular votes.
  8. ^ Died in office (assassination).
  9. ^ Thomas Eagleton was nominated by the national convention but withdrew his candidacy shortly afterwards.

See also