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The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected, which is through the Electoral College.
List
[edit]The table below is sorted to display elections by their presidential term / year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.
Election | Winner & party | Electoral College | Number of States won | Runner-up & party | Turnout[1] | |||||||
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Votes | % | % | Margin | States | Margin | |||||||
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Liberal Republican
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10 | 1824 | John Quincy Adams | D.-R. | 84/261 | 32.18% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Andrew Jackson | D.-R. | 26.9% |
11 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson | Dem. | 178/261 | 68.20% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John Quincy Adams | N. R. | 57.3% |
12 | 1832 | Andrew Jackson | Dem. | 219/286 | 76.57% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Henry Clay | N. R. | 57.0% |
13 | 1836 | Martin Van Buren | Dem. | 170/294 | 57.82% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | William Henry Harrison | Whig | 56.5% |
14 | 1840 | William Henry Harrison | Whig | 234/294 | 79.59% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Martin Van Buren | Dem. | 80.3% |
15 | 1844 | James Polk | Dem. | 170/275 | 61.82% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Henry Clay | Whig | 79.2% |
16 | 1848 | Zachary Taylor | Whig | 163/290 | 56.21% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Lewis Cass | Dem. | 72.8% |
17 | 1852 | Franklin Pierce | Dem. | 254/296 | 85.81% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Winfield Scott | Whig | 69.5% |
18 | 1856 | James Buchanan | Dem. | 174/296 | 58.78% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John Frémont | Rep. | 79.4% |
19 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | Rep. | 180/303 | 59.41% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John Breckinridge | Dem. | 81.8% |
20 | 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | Rep. | 212/233 | 90.99% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | George McClellan | Dem. | 76.3% |
21 | 1868 | Ulysses Grant | Rep. | 214/294 | 72.79% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Horatio Seymour | Dem. | 80.9% |
22 | 1872 | Ulysses Grant | Rep. | 286/352 | 81.25% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Horace Greeley | L. R. | 72.1% |
23 | 1876 | Rutherford Hayes | Rep. | 185/369 | 50.14% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Samuel Tilden | Dem. | 82.6% |
24 | 1880 | James Garfield | Rep. | 214/369 | 57.99% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Winfield Scott Hancock | Dem. | 80.5% |
25 | 1884 | Grover Cleveland | Dem. | 219/401 | 54.61% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | James Blaine | Rep. | 78.2% |
26 | 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | Rep. | 233/401 | 58.10% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Grover Cleveland | Dem. | 80.5% |
27 | 1892 | Grover Cleveland | Dem. | 277/444 | 62.39% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Benjamin Harrison | Rep. | 75.8% |
28 | 1896 | William McKinley | Rep. | 271/447 | 60.63% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | William Jennings Bryan | Dem. | 79.6% |
29 | 1900 | William McKinley | Rep. | 292/447 | 65.23% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | William Jennings Bryan | Dem. | 73.7% |
30 | 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | Rep. | 336/476 | 70.59% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Alton Brooks Parker | Dem. | 65.5% |
31 | 1908 | William Taft | Rep. | 321/483 | 66.46% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | William Jennings Bryan | Dem. | 65.7% |
32 | 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | Dem. | 435/531 | 81.92% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Theodore Roosevelt | Prog. | 59.0% |
33 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Dem. | 277/531 | 52.17% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Charles Evans Hughes | Rep. | 61.8% |
34 | 1920 | Warren Harding | Rep. | 404/531 | 76.08% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | James Cox | Dem. | 49.2% |
35 | 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | Rep. | 382/531 | 71.94% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John Davis | Dem. | 48.9% |
36 | 1928 | Herbert Hoover | Rep. | 444/531 | 83.62% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Al Smith | Dem. | 56.9% |
37 | 1932 | Franklin Roosevelt | Dem. | 472/531 | 88.89% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Herbert Hoover | Rep. | 56.9% |
38 | 1936 | Franklin Roosevelt | Dem. | 523/531 | 98.49% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Alf Landon | Rep. | 61.0% |
39 | 1940 | Franklin Roosevelt | Dem. | 449/531 | 84.56% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Wendell Willkie | Rep. | 62.4% |
40 | 1944 | Franklin Roosevelt | Dem. | 432/531 | 81.36% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Thomas Dewey | Rep. | 55.9% |
41 | 1948 | Harry Truman | Dem. | 303/531 | 57.06% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Thomas Dewey | Rep. | 52.2% |
42 | 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower | Rep. | 442/531 | 83.24% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Adlai Stevenson | Dem. | 62.3% |
43 | 1956 | Dwight Eisenhower | Rep. | 457/531 | 86.06% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Adlai Stevenson | Dem. | 60.2% |
44 | 1960 | John Kennedy | Dem. | 303/537 | 56.42% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Richard Nixon | Rep. | 63.8% |
45 | 1964 | Lyndon Johnson | Dem. | 486/538 | 90.33% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Barry Goldwater | Rep. | 62.8% |
46 | 1968 | Richard Nixon | Rep. | 301/538 | 55.95% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Hubert Humphrey | Dem. | 62.5% |
47 | 1972 | Richard Nixon | Rep. | 520/538 | 96.65% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | George McGovern | Dem. | 56.2% |
48 | 1976 | Jimmy Carter | Dem. | 297/538 | 55.20% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Gerald Ford | Rep. | 54.8% |
49 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan | Rep. | 489/538 | 90.89% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Jimmy Carter | Dem. | 54.2% |
50 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan | Rep. | 525/538 | 97.58% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Walter Mondale | Dem. | 55.2% |
51 | 1988 | George H. W. Bush | Rep. | 426/538 | 79.18% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Michael Dukakis | Dem. | 52.8% |
52 | 1992 | Bill Clinton | Dem. | 370/538 | 68.77% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | George H. W. Bush | Rep. | 58.1% |
53 | 1996 | Bill Clinton | Dem. | 379/538 | 70.45% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Bob Dole | Rep. | 51.7% |
54 | 2000 | George W. Bush | Rep. | 271/538 | 50.37% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Al Gore | Dem. | 54.2% |
55 | 2004 | George W. Bush | Rep. | 286/538 | 53.16% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John Kerry | Dem. | 60.1% |
56 | 2008 | Barack Obama | Dem. | 365/538 | 67.84% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | John McCain | Rep. | 61.6% |
57 | 2012 | Barack Obama | Dem. | 332/538 | 61.71% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Mitt Romney | Rep. | 58.6% |
58 | 2016 | Donald Trump | Rep. | 304/538 | 56.50% | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Dem. | 60.2% |
Note: The popular vote was not recorded prior to the 1824 election, so the first nine US presidential elections are not included in this table.
See also
[edit]- List of United States presidential elections by Electoral College margin
- List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
- United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote
References
[edit]- ^ McDonald, Michael P. (11 June 2014). "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Elections Project. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2016 270towin.com
External links
[edit]- How close were U.S. Presidential Elections? - Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology