1789–1799: The election of 1789 was the first presidential election in the United States of America. New York failed to appoint its allotment of eight electors, and subsequently cast no electoral votes. North Carolina and Rhode Island also did not cast votes, as they had not yet ratified the United States... 1789 | The election of 1792 was the second presidential election in the United States, and the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors. As in 1789, President George Washington ran unopposed for a second term. Under the system in place then and through the election of 1800... 1792 | The presidential election of 1796 was the first to expose potential flaws in the U.S. Electoral College system. In 1796, Thomas Jefferson was a candidate for the presidency as part of a ticket, with Aaron Burr as his Vice Presidential running mate. Meanwhile, incumbent John Adams was joined by... 1796
1800–1849: Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 2.1 Electoral College 2.2 House of Representatives 3 See also Summary The election of 1800 is often considered a realigning election. The flaws inherent in the electoral college were brought into full focus in this election. Under the United States Constitution, each... 1800 | The election of 1804 was the first presidential election conducted following the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. For the first time, presidential electors were required to specify in their votes their choice for President and Vice President. Election results Presidential Candidate Party State Popular Vote... 1804 | The election of 1808 was the first of only two cases where a new President would be elected, but the Vice Presidency remained in the same hands. In addition to his re-election, Vice President George Clinton, who had served under Thomas Jefferson, was also an unwilling candidate for President... 1808 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 3 Other elections 4 For more information Summary Taking place in the shadow of the War of 1812, the election of 1812 featured an intriguing competition between incumbent President James Madison and the nephew of his former Vice President, DeWitt Clinton (uncle George Clinton... 1812 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 3 Other elections 4 For more information Summary As Secretary of State under James Madison, James Monroe was seen by many as pre-ordained to succeed him into the presidency. Rufus King, twice defeated as the Federalist nominee for Vice President, returned to seek... 1816 | The U.S. presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in U.S. history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed. (After the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition). During the campaign, incumbent President James Monroe of the... 1820 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Corrupt bargain 3 Election results 3.1 Electoral college 3.2 House of Representatives 4 Other elections 5 For more information Summary The election of 1824 is often considered a realigning election. Though the Federalist Party had dissolved, divisions in the Democratic-Republican Party ran deep... 1824 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 3 Other elections 4 See also 5 External links Summary Held on December 2, the election of 1828 featured a rematch between incumbent President John Quincy Adams and chief rival Andrew Jackson, who was now a candidate under the banner of the new Democratic... 1828 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 3 Other elections 4 See also Summary Despite opposition from the universally respected Henry Clay of Kentucky, the election of 1832 served as little more than a coronation for President Andrew Jackson. A split within the National Republicans resulted in the nomination of two... 1832 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election results 2.1 Electoral college 2.2 Senate 3 See also 4 Other elections Summary The election of 1836 is predominately remembered for three reasons: it was the last election until 1988 to result in the elevation of an incumbent Vice President to the nation... 1836 | Summary Facing bad economic times and a Whig Party unified behind war hero William Henry Harrison, President Martin Van Buren was easily defeated for re-election in 1840 by Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. The election of 1840 was also unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had... 1840 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Democratic convention 3 Whig convention 4 Other candidates 5 Election results 6 See also 7 Other elections 8 For more information Summary President John Tyler, abandoned by his native Democratic party and despised by his adopted Whigs, failed to be nominated for re-election. Democratic nominee... 1844 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Whig convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Free Soil Party 5 Election Results 6 Other Elections 7 For More Information Summary President James Polk, having achieved virtually all of his objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four... 1848
1850–1899: Contents // 1 Summary 2 Whig Convention 3 Democratic Convention 4 Election Results 5 For More Information Summary President Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office after the death of Zachary Taylor, was defeated in his effort to be nominated by the Whig Party in 1852. Just as they had done... 1852 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Election Results 3 Other Elections 4 For More Information Summary President Franklin Pierce was defeated in his effort to be renominated by the Democrats, who instead selected James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. The Whigs meanwhile had disbanded but been largely replaced by the Republican Party, a new... 1856 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican Party nomination 3 Constitutional Union Party 4 Democratic Party nomination and split 5 Election results 6 Related topics 7 External links 8 Other elections Summary The election of 1860 is widely considered to be a realigning election. The United States had been divided through most... 1860 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican Party Nomination 3 Democratic Party Nomination 4 Election Results 5 For More Information 6 Other Elections Summary The election of 1864 was conducted in the middle of the Civil War, and as such the Confederate states did not participate. The war was taking a heavy... 1864 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican Party Nomination 3 Democratic Party Nomination 4 Election Results 5 For More Information 6 Other Elections Summary The Civil War over, partisan politics immediately returned as U.S. Congress wrangled with the issue of reconstruction - the radical Republicans even going so far as to impeach... 1868 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican Convention 3 Liberal Republicans 4 Democratic Convention 5 Election Results 6 Other Elections Summary Incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office despite a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a defection of many key Republicans to... 1872 | The U.S. presidential election of 1876 was perhaps the most disputed presidential election in American history. Samuel Tilden handily defeated Ohios Rutherford Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes 165. However, 20 electoral votes were in dispute due to four states (Florida, Louisiana... 1876 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Greenback Labor Party 5 Election results 6 Other elections Summary Keeping a promise made during the 1876 campaign, incumbent President Rutherford Hayes did not seek re-election. The Republican Party eventually chose another Ohioan, James Abram Garfield, as their standard... 1880 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Greenback Party 5 Prohibition Party 6 Election results 7 See also 8 Other elections Summary In a campaign that featured mudslinging and personal acrimony on a level never before seen, on November 4, 1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland became the first... 1884 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Other parties 5 Election results 6 See also 7 Other elections Summary Held on November 6, 1888, incumbent President Grover Cleveland received the greatest number of popular votes, but Republican challenger Benjamin Harrisons 233 electoral votes topped Clevelands... 1888 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Other parties 5 Election results 6 Other elections Summary Held on November 8, 1892, New Yorks Grover Cleveland returned to defeat incumbent President Benjamin Harrison to become the first person to be elected to non-consecutive Presidential terms. Cleveland... 1892 | Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Other parties 5 Election results 6 Other elections Summary The election of 1896 is often considered a realigning election. Democrat nominee William Jennings Bryan was running against William McKinley, but the McKinley ticket ended up winning, getting an endorsement from... 1896
1900–1949: Contents // 1 Summary 2 Republican convention 3 Democratic convention 4 Other parties 5 Election results 6 Other elections Summary The election was held on November 6, 1900. A rematch of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan, the recent victory... 1900 | Summary The election was held on November 8, 1904. The Incumbent president, Theodore Roosevelt, faced an early primary challenge from Mark Hanna, but this did not last long; Hanna died in 1904. Roosevelt was easily nominated. The Democrats nominated Alton B. Parker. Unlike the 1896 election, the Democrats decided to... 1904 | Contents // 1 Major party conventions 2 Major party conventions 3 Election results 4 Notes 5 See also 6 Other elections 7 Notes 8 See also 9 Other elections Major party conventions The 1908 Republican Convention was held in Chicago from 16 June to 19 June. Prominent Republican candidates included House... 1908 | Contents // 1 Introduction 2 Republican nomination 3 Democratic nomination 4 General election 5 Election results 6 Further reading 7 Other elections Introduction The 1912 election was marked by hostility and division between the establishment and Progressive factions of the Republican Party. Republican nomination The Republican Convention was held in Chicago... 1912 | Electoral College results In 1916, Europe was embroiled in World War I. American sentiment leaned towards the Allied Powers due to the occupation of parts of France and Belgium by the German Empire, but most American voters wanted to avoid involvement in the war, and preferred a policy of strict... 1916 | Presidential electoral votes by state. By the time of the U.S. presidential election of 1920, World War I was over. The wartime boom had collapsed. Diplomats and politicians were arguing over peace treaties and the question of Americas entry into the League of Nations. Overseas there were wars... 1920 | Contents // 1 Introduction 2 Republican nomination 3 Democratic nomination 4 Other candidates 5 General election 6 Election results 7 See also 8 Other elections Introduction Incumbent President Coolidge was relatively popular, and the economy was booming. Republican nomination The Republican Convention was held in Cleveland from 10 June to 12... 1924 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Herbert Clark Hoover of California (W) 444 21,391,381 58.2 Republican Charles Curtis of Kansas (444) Alfred Emmanuel Smith of New York 87 15,016,443 40.9 Democrat Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas (87) Others... 1928 | Presidential electoral votes by state. By the time of the U.S. presidential election of 1932, the effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. Across the world, governments felt the pressure for radical - even Socialist or Fascist - solutions to... 1932 | Presidential electoral votes by state. The Great Depression was still widespread at the time of the U.S. presidential election of 1936, and incumbent President Roosevelt was still working to push the provisions of his New Deal interventionist economic policy through Congress and the courts. Contents // 1 Nominations 1.1... 1936 | Presidential electoral votes by state. The U.S. presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of World War II, which had started the previous September. The continuing crisis in Europe made voters desire a strong and experienced president, so incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with tradition and... 1940 | 1944 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Harry S. Truman of Missouri (W) 303 24,105,695 49.7 Democrat Alben William Barkley of Kentucky (303) Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York 189 21,969,170 45.3 Republican Earl Warren of California (189) James... 1948
1950–1999: Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Dwight David Eisenhower of New York (W) 442 33,778,963 55.3% Republican Richard Milhous Nixon of California (442) Adlai Ewing Stevenson II of Illinois 89 27,314,992 44.7% Democrat John Jackson Sparkman of Alabama... 1952 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Dwight David Eisenhower of Pennsylvania (W) 457 35,581,003 57.4% Republican Richard Milhous Nixon of California (457) Adlai Ewing Stevenson II of Illinois 73 25,738,765 42.0% Democrat (Carey) Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (73... 1956 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts(W) 303 34,226,731 49.72% Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas (303) Richard Milhous Nixon of California 219 34,108,157 49.55% Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. of Massachusetts (219... 1960 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas (W) 486 42,825,463 61.0% Democrat Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minnesota (486) Barry Morris Goldwater of Arizona 52 27,146,969 38.4% Republican William Edward Miller of New York (52... 1964 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Richard Milhous Nixon of New York (W) 301 31,710,470 43.2% Republican Spiro Theodore Agnew of Maryland (301) Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minnesota 191 30,898,055 42.6% Democrat Edmund Sixtus Muskie of Maine (191... 1968 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Richard Milhous Nixon of California (W) 520 46,740,323 60.7% Republican Spiro Theodore Agnew of Maryland (520) George Stanley McGovern of South Dakota 17 28,901,598 37.5% Democrat Robert Sargent Shriver of Maryland (17... 1972 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. of Georgia (W) 297 40,825,839 50.1% Democrat Walter Frederick Mondale of Minnesota (297) Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. of Michigan 240 39,147,770 48.0% Republican Robert Joseph Dole of... 1976 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Ronald Wilson Reagan of California (W) 489 43,901,812 50.7% Republican George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas (489) James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. of Georgia 49 35,483,820 41.0% Democrat Walter Frederick Mondale of... 1980 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Ronald Wilson Reagan of California (W) 525 54,455,472 58.77% Republican George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas (525) Walter Frederick Mondale of Minnesota 13 37,577,352 40.56% Democrat Geraldine Anne Ferraro of New York... 1984 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate George H. W. Bush of Texas (W) 426 48,882,808 53.4% Republican James D. Quayle III of Indiana Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts 111 41,807,430 45.6% Democrat Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas Lloyd M. Bentsen... 1988 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) William Jefferson Clinton of Arkansas (W) 370 44,908,254 42.93% Democrat, Liberal Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. of Tennessee (370) George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas 168 39,102,343 37.38% Republican, Conservative, Right To Life... 1992 | Presidential Candidate Electoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) William Jefferson Clinton of Arkansas (W) 379 47,402,357 49.24 Democratic, Liberal Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. of Tennessee (379) Robert Joseph Dole of Kansas 159 39,198,755 40.71 Republican, Conservative Jack French Kemp of... 1996
2000–2049: Map The U.S. presidential election of 2000 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. The Republican candidate, George W. Bush won the election to the presidency, defeating Democratic candidate Al Gore. This election was the third time in United States history a candidate had won the necessary number... 2000 | Presidential electoral votes by state. Red denotes Bush/Cheney wins, Blue denotes Kerry/Edwards wins. The U.S. presidential election of 2004 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2. The Republican candidate, George W. Bush, won re-election to the presidency over his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry. Bush... 2004 | Presidential electoral votes by state The 2008 United States Presidential election is scheduled to occur on November 4, 2008. The allocation of electoral votes to each state will remain the same for this election as it was for the election in 2004, relying on the 2000 Census. Presidential Candidate Electoral... 2008