| Year | Candidates | Parties | Percentage of Popular Vote* | Electoral Vote |
| 1789 |
George Washington John Adams† Other candidates |
No party designations | 69 34 35 |
|
| 1792 |
George Washington John Adams George Clinton Other candidates |
No party designations | 132 77 50 5 |
|
| 1796 |
John Adams Thomas Jefferson Thomas Pinckney Aaron Burr Other candidates |
Federalist Democratic-Republican Federalist Democratic-Republican |
71 68 59 30 48 |
|
| 1800 |
Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr John Adams Charles C. Pinckney John Jay |
Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Federalist Federalist Federalist |
73 73 65 64 1 |
|
| 1804 |
Thomas Jefferson Charles C. Pinckney |
Democratic-Republican Federalist |
162 14 |
|
| 1808 |
James Madison Charles C. Pinckney George Clinton |
Democratic-Republican Federalist Democratic-Republican |
122 47 6 |
|
| 1812 |
James Madison DeWitt Clinton |
Democratic-Republican Federalist |
128 89 |
|
| 1816 |
James Monroe Rufus King |
Democratic-Republican Federalist |
183 34 |
|
| 1820 |
James Monroe John Quincy Adams |
Democratic-Republican Independent Republican |
231 1 |
|
| 1824 |
John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Henry Clay William H. Crawford |
Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican |
30.5 43.1 13.2 13.1 |
84 99 37 41 |
| 1828 |
Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams |
Democratic National Republican |
56.0 44.0 |
178 83 |
| 1832 |
Andrew Jackson Henry Clay William Wirt John Floyd |
Democratic National Republican Anti-Masonic Democratic |
54.5 37.5 8.0 ‡ |
219 49 7 11 |
| 1836 |
Martin Van Buren William H. Harrison Hugh L. White Daniel Webster W. P. Mangum |
Democratic Whig Whig Whig Whig |
50.9 49.1 |
170 73 26 14 11 |
| 1840 |
William H. Harrison Martin Van Buren |
Whig Democratic |
53.1 46.9 |
234 60 |
| 1844 |
James K. Polk Henry Clay James G. Birney |
Democratic Whig Liberty |
49.6 48.1 2.3 |
170 105 |
| 1848 |
Zachary Taylor Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren |
Whig Democratic Free Soil |
47.4 42.5 10.1 |
163 127 |
| 1852 |
Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott John P. Hale |
Democratic Whig Free Soil |
50.9 44.1 5.0 |
254 42 |
| 1856 |
James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore |
Democratic Republican American |
45.3 33.1 21.6 |
174 114 8 |
| 1860 |
Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas John C. Breckinridge John Bell |
Republican Democratic Democratic Constitutional Union |
39.8 29.5 18.1 12.6 |
180 12 72 39 |
| 1864 |
Abraham Lincoln George B. McClellan |
Republican Democratic |
55.0 45.0 |
212 21 |
| 1868 |
Ulysses S. Grant Horatio Seymour |
Republican Democratic |
52.7 47.3 |
214 80 |
| 1872 |
Ulysses S. Grant Horace Greeley |
Republican Democratic |
55.6 43.9 |
286 |
| 1876 |
Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel J. Tilden |
Republican Democratic |
48.0 51.0 |
185 184 |
| 1880 |
James A. Garfield Winfield S. Hancock James B. Weaver |
Republican Democratic Greenback-Labor |
48.5 48.1 3.4 |
214 155 |
| 1884 |
Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine Benjamin F. Butler John P. St. John |
Democratic Republican Greenback-Labor Prohibition |
48.5 48.2 1.8 1.5 |
219 182 |
| 1888 |
Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland Clinton P. Fisk Anson J. Streeter |
Republican Democratic Prohibition Union Labor |
47.9 48.6 2.2 1.3 |
233 168 |
| 1892 |
Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver John Bidwell |
Democratic Republican People’s Prohibition |
46.1 43.0 8.5 22 |
277 145 2.2 |
| 1896 |
William McKinley William J. Bryan |
Republican Democratic |
51.1 47.7 |
271 176 |
| 1900 |
William McKinley William J. Bryan John C. Wooley |
Republican Democratic; Populist Prohibition |
51.7 45.5 1.5 |
292 155 |
| 1904 |
Theodore Roosevelt Alton B. Parker Eugene V. Debs Silas C. Swallow |
Republican Democratic Socialist Prohibition |
57.4 37.6 3.0 1.9 |
336 140 |
| 1908 |
William H. Taft William J. Bryan Eugene V. Debs Eugene W. Chafin |
Republican Democratic Socialist Prohibition |
51.6 43.1 2.8 1.7 |
321 162 |
| 1912 |
Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft Eugene V. Debs Eugene W. Chafin |
Democratic Progressive Republican Socialist Prohibition |
41.9 27.4 23.2 6.0 1.4 |
435 88 8 |
| 1916 |
Woodrow Wilson Charles E. Hughes A. L. Benson J. Frank Hanly |
Democratic Republican Socialist Prohibition |
49.4 46.2 3.2 1.2 |
277 254 |
| 1920 |
Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Eugene V. Debs P. P. Christensen |
Republican Democratic Socialist Farmer-Labor |
60.4 34.2 3.4 1.0 |
404 127 |
| 1924 |
Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette |
Republican Democratic Progressive |
54.0 28.8 16.6 |
382 136 13 |
| 1928 |
Herbert C. Hoover Alfred E. Smith |
Republican Democratic |
58.2 40.9 |
444 87 |
| 1932 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert C. Hoover Norman Thomas |
Democratic Republican Socialist |
57.4 39.7 2.2 |
472 59 |
| 1936 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Alfred M. Landon William Lemke |
Democratic Republican Union |
60.8 36.5 1.9 |
523 8 |
| 1940 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Wendell L. Willkie |
Democratic Republican |
54.8 44.8 |
449 82 |
| 1944 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas E. Dewey |
Democratic Republican |
53.5 46.0 |
432 99 |
| 1948 |
Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey J. Strom Thurmond Henry Wallace |
Democratic Republican States’ Rights Progressive |
49.6 45.1 2.4 2.4 |
303 189 |
| 1952 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai E. Stevenson |
Republican Democratic |
55.1 44.4 |
442 89 |
| 1956 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai E. Stevenson |
Republican Democratic |
57.6 42.1 |
457 73 |
| 1960 |
John F. Kennedy Richard M. Nixon |
Democratic Republican |
49.7 49.5 |
303 219 |
| 1964 |
Lyndon B. Johnson Barry M. Goldwater |
Democratic Republican |
61.1 38.5 |
486 52 |
| 1968 |
Richard M. Nixon Hubert H. Humphrey George C. Wallace |
Republican Democratic American Independent |
43.4 42.7 13.5 |
301 191 46 |
| 1972 |
Richard M. Nixon George S. McGovern John G. Schmitz |
Republican Democratic American |
60.7 37.5 1.4 |
520 17 |
| 1976 |
Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford |
Democratic Republican |
50.1 48.0 |
297 240 |
| 1980 |
Ronald W. Reagan Jimmy Carter John B. Anderson Ed Clark |
Republican Democratic Independent Libertarian |
50.7 41.0 6.6 1.1 |
489 49 0 |
| 1984 |
Ronald W. Reagan Walter F. Mondale |
Republican Democratic |
58.4 41.6 |
525 13 |
| 1988 |
George H. W. Bush Michael Dukakis |
Republican Democratic |
53.4 45.6 |
426 111** |
| 1992 |
Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush H. Ross Perot |
Democratic Republican Independent |
43.7 38.0 19.0 |
370 168 0 |
| 1996 |
Bill Clinton Robert J. Dole H. Ross Perot |
Democratic Republican Reform |
49 41 8 |
379 159 0 |
| 2000 |
George W. Bush Albert Gore Ralph Nader |
Republican Democratic Green |
47.8 48.4 2.7 |
271 267 0 |
| 2004 |
George W. Bush John Kerry |
Republican Democratic |
50.7 48.3 |
286 252 |
| 2008 |
Barack Obama John McCain |
Democratic Republican |
52.9 45.7 |
365 173 |
| 2012 |
Barack Obama Mitt Romney |
Democratic Republican |
51 41.2 |
332 206 |
|
SOURCES: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (1975); Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2001; Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2006. * Prior to 1824, most presidential electors were chosen by state legislators rather than by popular vote. For elections after 1824, candidates receiving less than 1.0 percent of the popular vote have been omitted from this chart. Hence the popular vote does not total 100 percent for all elections. † Before the Twelfth Amendment was passed in 1804, the electoral college voted for two presidential candidates; the runner-up became vice president. ‡ Independent Democrat John Floyd received the 11 electoral votes of South Carolina; that state’s presidential electors were still chosen by its legislature, not by popular vote. ** One Dukakis elector cast a vote for Lloyd Bentsen. |
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