United States presidential election

The United States presidential election is a competition where candidates compete against other candidates in the race to become President of the United States.

List of elections

1. 1788/1789 – George Washington 69 – John Adams 34 – John Jay 9 – Robert Harrison 6 – John Rutledge 6
2. 1792 – George Washington 132 – John Adams 77 – George Clinton 50
3. 1796 – John Adams 71 – Thomas Jefferson 68 – Thomas Pinckney 59 – Aaron Burr 30 – Samuel Adams 15 – Oliver Elsworth 11 – George Clinton 7
4. 1800 – Thomas Jefferson 73 – Aaron Burr 73 – John Adams 65 – Charles Pinckney 64
5. 1804 – Thomas Jefferson 162 – John Adams 14
6. 1808 – James Madison 122 – Charles Pinckney 47 – George Clinton 6 – James Monroe 0
7. 1812 – James Madison 128 – DeWitt Clinton 89
8. 1816 – James Monroe 183 – Rufus King 34
9. 1820 – James Monroe 228/231 – John Quincy Adams 1
10. 1824 – John Quincy Adams 84 – Andrew Jackson 99 – William Crawford 41 – Henry Clay 37
11. 1828 – Andrew Jackson 178 – John Quincy Adams 83
12. 1832 – Andrew Jackson 219 – Henry Clay 49 – John Floyd 11 – William Wirt 9
13. 1836 – Martin Van Buren 170 – William Harrison 78 – Hugh White 26 – Daniel Webster 14 – Willie Mangum 11
14. 1840 – William Harrison 234 – Martin Van Buren 60
15. 1844 – James Polk 170 – Henry Clay 105 – James Birney 0
16. 1848 – Zachary Taylor 168 – Lewis Cass 127 – Martin Van Buren 0
17. 1852 – Franklin Pierce 254 – Winfield Scott 42 – John Hale 0
18. 1856 – James Buchanan 174 – John Frémont 114 – Millard Fillmore 8
19. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln 180 – John Breckinridge 72 – John Bell 39 – Stephen Douglas 12
20. 1864 – Abraham Lincoln 212 – George McClellan 21
21. 1868 – Ulysses Grant 214 – Horatio Seymour 80
22. 1872 – Ulysses Grant 286 – Horace Greeley 0 – Thomas Hendricks 42 – Benjamin Brown 18 – Charles Jenkins 2
23. 1876 – Rutherford Hayes 185 – Samuel Tilden 184
24. 1880 – James Garfield 214 – Winfield Hancock 155 – James Weaver 0
25. 1884 – Grover Cleveland 219 – James Blaine 182 – John St. John 0 – Benjamin Butler 0
26. 1888 – Benjamin Harrison 233 – Grover Cleveland 168 – Clinton Fisk 0 – Alson Streeter 0
27. 1892 – Grover Cleveland 277 – Benjamin Harrison 145 – James Weaver 22 – John Bidwell 0
28. 1896 – William McKinley 271 – William Bryan 176
29. 1900 – William McKinley 292 – William Bryan 155 – John Woolley 0
30. 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt 336 – Alton Parker 140 – Eugene Debs 0 – Silas Swallow 0
31. 1908 – William Taft 321 – William Bryan 162 – Eugene Debs 0 – Eugene Chafin 0
32. 1912 – Woodrow Wilson 435 – Theodore Roosevelt 88 – William Taft 8 – Eugene Debs 0 – Eugene Chafin 0
33. 1916 – Woodrow Wilson 277 – Charles Hughes 254 – Allan Benson 0 – James Hanley 0
34. 1920 – Warren Harding 404 – James Cox 127 – Eugene Debs 0
35. 1924 – Calvin Coolidge 382 – John Davis 136 – Robert La Follette, Sr. 13
36. 1928 – Herbert Hoover 444 – Al Smith 87
37. 1932 – Franklin Roosevelt 472 – Herbert Hoover 59 – Norman Thomas 0
38. 1936 – Franklin Roosevelt 523 – Alf Landon 8 – William Lemke 0
39. 1940 – Franklin Roosevelt 449 – Wendell Willkie 82
40. 1944 – Franklin Roosevelt 432 – Thomas Dewey 99
41. 1948 – Harry Truman 303 – Thomas Dewey 189 – Strom Thurmond 39 – Henry Wallace 0
42. 1952 – Dwight Eisenhower 442 – Adlai Stevenson 89
43. 1956 – Dwight Eisenhower 457 – Adlai Stevenson 73
44. 1960 – John Kennedy 303 – Richard Nixon 219 – Harry Byrd 15
45. 1964 – Lyndon Johnson 486 – Barry Goldwater 52
46. 1968 – Richard Nixon 301 – Hubert Humphrey 191 – George Wallace 46
47. 1972 – Richard Nixon 520 – George McGovern 17 – John Schmitz 0 – John Hospers 1
48. 1976 – Jimmy Carter 297 – Gerald Ford 240
49. 1980 – Ronald Reagan 489 – Jimmy Carter 49 – John Anderson 0 – Ed Clark 0
50. 1984 – Ronald Reagan 525 – Walter Mondale 13
51. 1988 – George H. W. Bush 426 – Michael Dukakis 111
52. 1992 – Bill Clinton 370 – George H. W. Bush 168 – Ross Perot 0
53. 1996 – Bill Clinton 379 – Bob Dole 159 – Ross Perot 0
54. 2000 – George Bush 271 – Al Gore 266 – Ralph Nader 0
55. 2004 – George Bush 286 – John Kerry 251
56. 2008 – Barack Obama 365 – John McCain 173
57. 2012 – Barack Obama 332 – Mitt Romney 206
58. 2016 – Donald Trump 306 – Hillary Clinton 232
59. 2020 – Jack Fellure TBD – Rocky de la Fuente TBD – Geoffrey Fieger TBD

Key

Winning candidate's name is in bold. Each candidate's name includes number of electoral votes. Candidates of two parties have their binonymous name split between two colors.

Color key:

• Independent
• Federalist
• Democratic-Republican
• Democratic (is blue after 1984)
• National Republican
• Nullifier
• Anti-Masonic
• Whig
• Liberty
• Free Soil
• Republican (is red after 1984)
• American Liberty
• Southern Democratic
• Constitutional Union
• Northern Democratic
• National Union
• Liberal Republican
• Greenback
• Prohibition
• Union Labor
• Populist
• Socialist
• Progressive
• Union
• States' Rights Democratic
• Labor
• American Independent
• American
• Libertarian
• Reform
• Green

See also

• U.S. presidential elections