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Presidential Election Results
 
Winning Pres./VP
Opposing Candidates
Year Parties Electoral Vote Popular Vote
George Washington
John Adams
1789
None
Federalist
69
34
 
 
George Washington
John Adams
1792
Federalist
Federalist
132
77
 
 
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
1796
Federalist
Dem.-Rep.
71
68
 
 
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
John Adams
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
1800
Dem.-Rep.
Dem.-Rep.
Federalist
Federalist
73
73
65
64
 
 
Thomas Jefferson
George Clinton
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Rufus King
1804
Dem.-Rep
 
Federalist
 
162
 
14
 
 
 
James Madison
George Clinton
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Rufus King
1808
Dem.-Rep
 
Federalist
 
122
 
47
 
 
 
James Madison
Elbridge Gerry
George Clinton
Jared Ingersoll
1812
Dem.-Rep
 
Federalist
 
128
 
89
 
 
 
James Monroe
Daniel D. Tompkins
Rufus King
John Howard
1816
Dem.-Rep
 
Federalist
 
183
 
34
 
 
 
James Monroe
Daniel D. Tomkins
John Quincy Adams
1820
Dem.-Rep
 
Federalist
 
231
 
1
 
 
 
John Quincy Adams
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Nathan Sanford
1824
Dem.-Rep
 
Dem.-Rep.
 
99
 
84
 
113,122 (30.9%)
 
151,271 (41.3%)
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
John Quincy Adams
Nathan Sanford
1828
Dem.-Rep
 
Nat.-Rep.
 
178
 
83
 
642,553 (56.0%)
 
500,897 (43.6%)
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
John Sergeant
1832
Democratic
 
Nat.-Rep.
 
219
 
49
 
701,78 (54.2%)
 
484,205 (37.4%)
Martin Van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
William Henery Harrison
Francis Granger
1836
Democratic
 
Whig
 
170
 
73
 
764,176 (50.8%)
 
550,816 (36.6%)
William H. Harrison
John Tyler
Martin Van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
1840
Whig
 
Democratic
 
234
 
60
 
1,275,390 (52.9%)
 
1,128,854 (46.8%)
James K. Polk
George M. Dallas
Henry Clay
Theodore Frelinghuysen
1844
Democratic
 
Whig
 
170
 
105
 
1,339,494 (49.5%)
 
1,300,004 (48.1%)
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Lewis Cass
William O. Butler
1848
Whig
 
Democratic
 
163
 
127
 
1,361,393 (47.3%)
 
1,223,460 (42.5%)
Franklin Pierce
William R. King
Winfield Scott
William A. Graham
1852
Democratic
 
Whig
 
254
 
42
 
1,607,510 (50.8%)
 
1,386,942 (43.9%)
James Buchanan
John C.Breckenbridge
John C. Fremont
William L. Dayton
1856
Democratic
 
Republican
 
174
 
114
 
1,836,072 (45.3%)
 
1,342,345 (33.1%)
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Stephen A. Dougles
Hershel V. Johnson
1860
Republican
 
Democratic
 
180
 
12
 
1,865,908 (39.8%)
 
1,380,202 (29.5%)
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
George B. McClellan
George H. Pendleton
1864
Repulican
 
Democratic
 
212
 
21
 
2,218,388 (55.0%
 
1,812,807 (45.0%)
Ulysses S. Grant
Schuyler Colfax
Horatio Seymour
Francis P. Blair, Jr.
1868
Republican
 
Democratic
 
214
 
80
 
3,013,650 (52.7%)
 
2,708,744 (47.3%)
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Wilson
Horace Greely
Benjamin Gratz Brown
1872
Republican
 
Democratic
 
286
 
66
 
3,598,235 (55.6%)
 
2,834,761 (43.8%)
Rutherford B. Hayes
William A. Wheeler
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas A. Hendricks
1876
Republican
 
Democratic
 
185
 
184
4,034,311 (47.9%)
 
4,288,546 (51.0%)
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Winfield S. Hancock
WIlliam H. English
1880
Replican
 
Democratic
 
214
 
155
 
4,446,158 (48.3%)
 
4,444,260 (48.2%)
Grover Cleveland
Thomas A. Hendricks
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
1884
Democratic
 
Republican
 
219
 
182
 
4,874,621 (48.5%)
 
4,848,936 (48.2%)
Benjamin Harrison
Levi P. Morton
Grover Cleveland
Allen G. Thurman
1888
Republican
 
Democratic
 
233
 
168
5,443,892 (47.8%)
 
5,534,488 (48.6%)
Grover Cleveland
Adlai E. Stevenson
Benjamin Harrison
Whitelaw Reid
1892
Democratic
 
Republican
 
277
 
145
 
5,551,883 (46.1%)
 
5,179,244 (43.0%)
William McKinley
Garrett A. Hobart
William J. Bryan
Arthur Sewall
1896
Republican
 
Democratic
 
271
 
176
 
7,108,480 (51.0%)
 
6,511,495 (46.7%)
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William J. Bryan
Adlai E. Stevenson
1900
Republican
 
Democratic
 
292
 
155
 
7,218,039 (51.7%)
 
6,538,345 (45.5%)
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles W. Fairbanks
Alton B. Parker
Henry G. Davis
1904
Republican
 
Democratic
 
336
 
140
 
7,626,593 (56.4%)
 
5,028,898 (37.6%)
William H. Taft
James S. Sherman
William J. Bryan
John W. Kern
1908
Republican
 
Democratic
 
321
 
162
 
7,626,258 (51.6%)
 
6,406,801 (43.0%)
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
William H. Taft
James S. Sherman
1912
Democratic
 
Republican
 
435
 
8
 
6,293,152 (41.8%)
 
3,486,333 (23.2%)
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
Charles E. Hughes
Charles W. Fairbanks
1916
Democratic
 
Republican
 
277
 
254
 
9,126,300 (49.2%)
 
8,546,789 (46.1%)
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
James M. Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1920
Republican
 
Democratic
 
404
 
127
 
16,133,314 (60.3%)
 
9,140,884 (34.2%)
Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
John W. Davis
Charles W. Bryan
1924
Republican
 
Democratic
 
382
 
136
 
15,717,552 (54.1%)
 
8,363,169 (28.8%)
Herbert C. Hoover
Charles Curtis
Alfred E. Smith
Joseph T. Robinson
1928
Republican
 
Democratic
 
444
 
87
 
21,411,991 (58.2%)
 
15,000,185 (40.8%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Herbert C. Hoover
Charles Curtis
1932
Democratic
 
Republican
 
472
 
59
 
22,825,016 (57.4%)
 
15,758,397 (39.6%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Nance Garner
Alfred M. Landon
Frank Knox
1936
Democratic
 
Republican
 
523
 
8
 
27,747,636 (60.8%)
 
16,679,543 (36.5%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wendell L. Willkie
Charles L McNary
1940
Democratic
 
Republican
 
449
 
82
 
27,263,448 (54.7%)
 
22,336,260 (44.8%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
1944
Democratic
 
Republican
 
432
 
99
 
25,611,936 (53.4%)
 
22,013,372 (45.8%)
Harry S. Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
1948
Democratic
 
Republican
 
303
 
198
 
24,105,587 (49.5%)
 
21,970,017 (45.1%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Adlai E. Stevenson II
John Sparkman
1952
Republican
 
Democratic
 
442
 
89
 
33,936,137 (55.1%)
 
27,314,649 (44.4%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Estes Kefauver
1956
Republican
 
Democratic
 
457
 
73
 
35,585,245 (57.4%)
 
26,030,172 (42.0%)
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
1960
Democratic
 
Republican
 
303
 
219
 
34,221,344 (49.7%)
 
34,106,671 (49.5%)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
William E. Miller
1964
Democratic
 
Republican
 
486
 
52
 
43,126,584 (61.1%)
 
27,177,838 (38.5%)
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Hubery H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
1968
Republican
 
Democratic
 
301
 
191
 
31,785,148 (43.4%)
 
31,274,503 (42.7%)
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
George McGovern
Sargent Shriver
1972
Republican
 
Democratic
 
520
 
17
 
47,170,179 (60.7%)
 
29,171,791 (37.5%)
James E. Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Gerald R. Ford
Robert Dole
1976
Democratic
 
Republican
 
297
 
240
 
40,830,763 (50.1%)
 
39,147,793 (48.0%)
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
James E. Carter
Walter F. Mondale
1980
Republican
 
Democratic
 
489
 
49
 
43,904,153 (50.7%)
 
35,483,883 (41.0%)
Roland Reagan
George Bush
Walter F. Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro
1984
Republican
 
Democratic
 
525
 
13
54,455,074 (55.8%)
 
37,577,137 (40.6%)
George H. W. Bush
J. Danforth Quale
Michael S. Dukakis
Lloyd Bentsen
1988
Republican
 
Democratic
 
426
 
111
 
48,881,278 (53.4%)
 
41,805,374 (45.6%)
William J. Clinton
Albert Gore
George H. W. Bush
J. Danforth Quale
1992
Democratic
 
Republican
 
370
 
168
 
44,908,233 (43.0%)
 
39,102,282 (37.4%)
William J. Clinton
Albert Gore
Robert Dole
Jack Kemp
1996
Democratic
 
Republican
 
379
 
159
 
47,402,357 (49.2%)
 
39,987,755 (40.7%)
George W. Bush
Richard B. Cheney
Albert A. Gore
Joseph I. Lieberman
2000
Republican
 
Democratic
 
271
 
266
 
50,456,062 (47.9%)
 
50,966,582 (48.4%)

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