Presidential Election in the United States / Details of Election Results

The page Details of the election results of the presidential elections in the United States provides an overview of further information on the individual elections. Six different colors each represent a party. Arrow symbols in front of the names of the politicians provide information about any previous candidacies or (vice) presidencies.

Overview of the election results

official time	Election year	Pres . No.	Winner ( president )	Other major candidates Candidates for the vice presidency	Vice President	ViceP. No.
1	1789	01.	George Washington	John Adams  ( independent )  John Jay  (independent)  Robert H. Harrison  (independent)  John Rutledge  (independent)	→ John Adams	1.
2	1792			↓ ⇙ John Adams  ( Federalist )  George Clinton  ( Democratic Republic Party )	→, ↘ ↓ John Adams
3	1796	02.	↙ ⇙, (↙ ⇙) John Adams	Thomas Jefferson  (Democratic Republic. Party)  Thomas Pinckney  (Federalist)  Aaron Burr  (Democratic Republic. Party)  Samuel Adams  (Democratic Republic. Party)  Oliver Ellsworth  (Federalist)  ↓ George Clinton  (Democratic Republic. Party )	→ Thomas Jefferson	2.
4th	1800	03.	↙ ⇙ Thomas Jefferson	↓ Aaron Burr  (Democratic Republic Party)  ⇘, (↓ ⇙, ↓ ⇙) John Adams  (Federalist)  Charles Cotesworth Pinckney  (Federalist)	→, ↘ Aaron Burr	3.
5	1804			↓ Charles Cotesworth Pinckney  (Federalist)	(↘, ↘) George Clinton  †	4th
6th	1808	04th	James Madison	↓, (↓) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney  (Federalist)
7th	1812			DeWitt Clinton  (Federalist  / Peace Party )	Elbridge Gerry  †	5.
8th	1816	05.	James Monroe	Rufus King  (Federalist)	Daniel D. Tompkins	6th
9	1820			(no opposing candidate)
10	1824 ( 2 )	06th	John Quincy Adams	Andrew Jackson ( 2 )  (Democratic Republic. Party)  William H. Crawford  (Democratic Republic. Party)  Henry Clay  (Democratic Republic. Party)	John C. Calhoun changed party. 	7th
11	1828	07th	↙ Andrew Jackson	⇘ John Quincy Adams ( National Republican Party )
12	1832			(↓) Henry Clay (National Republican Party) William Wirt ( Anti-Masonic Party ) John Floyd ( Nullifier Party ("The Independents"))	Martin Van Buren	8th.
13	1836	08th.	⇙ Martin Van Buren	William Henry Harrison  ( Whig )  Hugh Lawson White  (Whig Party)  Daniel Webster  (Whig Party)  Willie P. Mangum  (Whig  with Nullifiers' votes)	Richard mentor Johnson	9.
14th	1840	09. 10.	↙ William Henry Harrison  † ⇐ John Tyler 	⇘, (⇙) Martin Van Buren  ( Democratic Party )	John Tyler not occupied (moved up)	10.
15th	1844 ( 1 )	11.	James K. Polk	(↓, ↓) Henry Clay  (Whig Party)  James G. Birney ( Liberty Party )	George M. Dallas	11.
16	1848 ( 1 )	12th 13	Zachary Taylor  † ⇐ Millard Fillmore 	Lewis Cass  (Democratic Party)  (↓, ⇘, ⇙) Martin Van Buren ( Free Soil Party )	Millard Fillmore not occupied (moved up)	12.
17th	1852	14th	Franklin Pierce	Winfield Scott  (Whig Party)  John P. Hale (Free Soil Party)	William R. King  †	13.
18th	1856 ( 1 )	15th	James Buchanan	John C. Frémont  ( Republican Party )  (⇙ ⇘) Millard Fillmore ( American Party /  (Whig)  )	John C. Breckinridge	14th
19th	1860 ( 1 )	16. 17.	Abraham Lincoln  ††⇐ Andrew Johnson 	Stephen A. Douglas ( Northern Democratic Party ) ⇙ John C. Breckinridge ( Southern Democratic Party ) John Bell ( Constitutional Union Party )	Hannibal Hamlin	15th
20th	1864			George B. McClellan  (Democratic Party)	Andrew Johnson not occupied (moved up)	16.
21st	1868	18th	Ulysses S. Grant	Horatio Seymour  (Democratic Party)	Schuyler Colfax	17th
22nd	1872			Horace Greeley  (Democratic Party  / Liberal Republican )	Henry Wilson  †	18th
23	1876 ( 3 )	19th	Rutherford B. Hayes	Samuel J. Tilden ( 3 )  (Democratic Party)	William A. Wheeler	19th
24	1880 ( 1 )	20. 21.	James A. Garfield  †† ⇐ Chester A. Arthur 	Winfield Scott Hancock  (Democratic Party)  James B. Weaver ( Greenback Party )	Chester A. Arthur not occupied (moved up)	20th
25th	1884 ( 1 )	22nd	Grover Cleveland	James G. Blaine  (Republican Party)  Benjamin Franklin Butler (Greenback Party / Anti-Monopoly ) John St. John ( Prohibition Party )	Thomas A. Hendricks  †	21st
26th	1888 ( 2 )	23.	Benjamin Harrison	⇘ Grover Cleveland ( 2 )  (Democratic Party)  Clinton B. Fisk (Prohibition Party) Alson Streeter ( Union Labor Party )	Levi P. Morton	22nd
27	1892 ( 1 )	24.	↙, (⇓) Grover Cleveland	⇘ Benjamin Harrison  (Republican Party)  (↓) James B. Weaver ( Populist Party ) John Bidwell (Prohibition Party)	Adlai Ewing Stevenson	23.
28	1896	25. (26.)	William McKinley  ††⇐ Theodore Roosevelt 	William Jennings Bryan  (Democratic Party  / Populist Party)	Garret Hobart  †	24.
29	1900			↓ William Jennings Bryan  (Democratic Party)  John G. Woolley (Prohibition Party)	Theodore Roosevelt not occupied (moved up)	25th
30th	1904	26th	⇓ ⇙ Theodore Roosevelt	Alton B. Parker  (Democratic Party)  Eugene V. Debs ( Socialist Party ) Silas C. Swallow (Prohibition Party)	Charles W. Fairbanks	26th
31	1908	27.	William Howard Taft	(↓, ↓) William Jennings Bryan  (Democratic Party)  ↓ Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Party) Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition Party)	James S. Sherman  †	27.
32	1912 ( 1 )	28.	Woodrow Wilson	(⇘, ⇘ ⇙) Theodore Roosevelt ( Progressive Party ) ⇘ William Howard Taft  (Republican Party)  ↓, (↓) Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Party) ↓ Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition Party)	Thomas Riley Marshall	28.
33	1916 ( 1 )			Charles Evans Hughes  (Republican Party)  Allan Louis Benson (Socialist Party) Frank Hanly (Prohibition Party)
34	1920	29. (30.)	Warren G. Harding  † ⇐ Calvin Coolidge 	James M. Cox  (Democratic Party)  (↓, ↓, ↓) Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Party) Parley P. Christensen ( Farmer-Labor Party )	Calvin Coolidge not occupied (moved up)	29
35	1924	30th	⇓ ⇙ Calvin Coolidge	John W. Davis  (Democratic Party)  Robert M. La Follette (Progressive Party / Socialist Party)	Charles G. Dawes	30th
36	1928	31.	Herbert Hoover	Al Smith  (Democratic Party)	Charles Curtis	31.
37	1932	32nd (33rd)	Franklin D. Roosevelt  †⇐ Harry S. Truman 	⇘ Herbert Hoover  (Republican Party)  Norman Thomas (Socialist Party)	John Nance Garner	32.
38	1936			Alf Landon  (Republican Party)  William Lemke ( Union Party )
39	1940			Wendell Willkie  (Republican Party)	Henry A. Wallace	33.
40	1944			Thomas E. Dewey  (Republican Party)	Harry S. Truman not occupied (moved up)	34.
41	1948 ( 1 )	33.	⇓ ⇙ Harry S. Truman	↓ Thomas E. Dewey  (Republican Party)  Strom Thurmond ( Dixiecrats ) (⇙) Henry A. Wallace (Progressive Party)	Albums W. Barkley	35.
42	1952	34.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adlai Ewing Stevenson II  (Democratic Party)	Richard Nixon	36.
43	1956			↓ Adlai Ewing Stevenson II  (Democratic Party)
44	1960 ( 1 )	35. (36.)	John F. Kennedy  †† ⇐ Lyndon B. Johnson 	⇙ Richard Nixon  (Republican Party)	Lyndon B. Johnson not occupied (moved up)	37.
45	1964	36.	⇓ ⇙ Lyndon B. Johnson	Barry Goldwater  (Republican Party)	Hubert H. Humphrey	38.
46	1968 ( 1 )	37. [38.]	(⇙, ↙) Richard Nixon ⇐ Gerald Ford 	⇙ Hubert H. Humphrey  (Democratic Party)  George Wallace ( American Independent Party )	Spiro Agnew ( Gerald Ford )( Nelson Rockefeller )  	39. 40. 41.
47	1972			George McGovern  (Democratic Party)  John G. Schmitz (American Independent Party)
48	1976	39.	Jimmy Carter	⇘ ⇙ Gerald Ford  (Republican Party)	Walter Mondale	42.
49	1980	40.	Ronald Reagan	⇘ Jimmy Carter  (Democratic Party)  John B. Anderson  (Independent)  Ed Clark ( Libertarian Party )	George HW Bush	43.
50	1984			(⇙) Walter Mondale  (Democratic Party)
51	1988	41.	⇙ George HW Bush	Michael Dukakis  (Democratic Party)	Dan Quayle	44.
52	1992 ( 1 )	42.	Bill Clinton	⇘, (⇙) George HW Bush  (Republican Party)  Ross Perot  (Independent)	Al Gore	45.
53	1996 ( 1 )			Bob Dole  (Republican Party)  ↓ Ross Perot ( Reform Party )
54	2000 ( 2 )	43.	George W. Bush	⇙ Al Gore ( 2 )  (Democratic Party)  Ralph Nader ( Green Party )	Dick Cheney	46.
55	2004			John Kerry  (Democratic Party)
56	2008	44.	Barack Obama	John McCain  (Republican Party)	Joe Biden	47.
57	2012			Mitt Romney  (Republican Party)
58	2016 ( 2 )	45.	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton  (Democratic Party)	Mike Pence	48.

Legend and explanations

Meaning of the colors & statistics: 6 parties and their colors 45 presidents 48 vice presidents Non-party 1 0 Federalist Party 1 1 Democratic Republican Party 4th 6th Democratic Party 16 18th Whig party 4th 2 Republican Party 19th 21st Meaning of the arrow symbols in front of the name 0.) General explanation : The arrow symbols show the previous candidacies or (vice) presidencies of a politician. The symbols are based on the following principle: The arrows are always in front of the name of the respective politician and point from the direction in which the table column with his previous office is. For example, for a candidate (middle column) who was previously Vice President (column to the right of it), the arrow points from the right; if he was previously president (column to the left of it), the arrow also points from the left. →, ⇐ Horizontal arrows refer to the same term of office . ↘, ↙, ↓, ⇙, ⇓, ⇘ Inclined or vertical arrows refer to the immediately preceding election / term of office. Arrows in brackets refer to earlier, but not to the immediately preceding election / term of office. Arrows separated by a comma indicate that a politician has already participated in several previous elections / terms. (e.g .: (⇘, ⇙) Theodore Roosevelt (32nd term) was a former president and was vice president in a previous term.) Arrows without a comma and separated by only spaces indicate that a politician held several offices in one term of office. (e.g .: (⇙ ⇘) Millard Fillmore (18th term) was first vice-president and then president in a previous term) 1.) Meaning of the arrows for people with previous candidacies ( simple arrows →, ↘, ↙, ↓): → The person was also a candidate for the presidency in the same election, received the second highest number of votes and became vice-president. This regulation was valid until 1800. From 1804 the 12th Amendment to the Constitution came into force. ↘ Vice-President was already a candidate in the previous election. (↘, ↘) Vice-President had been a candidate several times in previous elections, but not in the immediately preceding election. ↙ President was already a candidate in the previous election. ↓ The candidate was already a candidate in the previous election. (↓) The candidate was a candidate in previous elections, but not in the immediately preceding election. (↓, ↓) The candidate had been a candidate several times in previous elections, but not in the immediately preceding election. 2.) Meaning of the arrows for persons with a previous vice presidency ( double arrows from right or top right ⇐, ⇙): ⇐ In the same period, President was first Vice-President and then succeeded as President. ⇙ President or candidate was already vice-president in the immediately preceding period. (⇙) President or candidate was Vice President in an earlier, but not the immediately preceding period. 3.) Meaning of the arrows for persons with a previous presidency ( double arrows from above or top left ⇓, ⇘): ⇓ President was already President in the immediately preceding period (but only because he had moved up from the position of Vice-President). (⇓) President was President in an earlier period, but not in the immediately preceding period. (only applies to Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th)) ⇘ The candidate was already president in the immediately preceding period and was therefore defeated when he tried to re-elect. (⇘) The candidate was president in an earlier, but not the immediately preceding period. Meaning of the symbols behind the names: † Politician died during his tenure. In the case of a president, this meant that his office was taken over by the vice-president. †† President was assassinated during his tenure and then replaced by his vice president.

Footnotes on the election results:

¹ winner received a relative, but not an absolute majority of all votes. (1844, 1848, 1856, 1860, 1880, 1884, 1892, 1912, 1916, 1948, 1960, 1968, 1992, 1996)

² losers achieved the relative, but not the absolute majority of all votes. (1824, 1888, 2000, 2016)

³ losers even got an absolute majority of all votes on election day. (1876)

(In all other election years not listed here, the winner received an absolute majority of all votes.)

Notes on the table and comments:

1. ↑ The 3rd column of the table (heading "Pres. No.") contains the number of the President in office. Grover Cleveland is counted twice because of its separate terms (# 22 and # 24).
2. ↑ ^{a b} (Vice) presidents in bold could win more than one election: 13 presidents won two consecutive elections, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only one to win four (consecutive) elections, Grover Cleveland was the only one to win two non-consecutive elections. 11 Vice-Presidents were in office for two (consecutive) terms.
3. ↑ Any candidate who received at least 1% of the votes on election day for elections since 1824 or the at least five electoral votes for elections up to and including 1820 is counted as a “significant candidate”. (This column may not be complete.)
4. ↑ The 7th column of the table (heading "VizeP.Nr.") Contains the number of the Vice President in office.
5. ↑ ^{a b} John Adams was initially non-party, from 1792 was considered a federalist , that is, a supporter of George Washington's policies. The Federalist Party was not properly established until 1794 (he counts as a federalist for statistics).
6. ↑ ^{a b} In the 1792 election there was virtually no candidate against George Washington, who was elected president without a dissenting vote. Therefore, a second election was held for the appointment of the Vice President, in which there were also several candidates. John Adams emerged victorious from this election.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} In the history of the USA there have been two terms in office in which the President and Vice President belonged to two different parties: In the term from 1796 to 1800 (No. 3) Thomas Jefferson belonged to the Democratic Republican Party, while his Vice President John Adams was a federalist. The 20th term, from 1864 to 1868, belonged to Republican President Abraham Lincoln and his Democratic Vice President Andrew Johnson.
   While the first occurrence of the case of unequal party affiliation between the president and the vice president was due to the old electoral system from before 1804, the second time the founding of a new party preceded it relatively quickly: in 1864, Abraham Lincoln, the first republican president of the USA, took office. (A similar thing happened as early as 1828, when Andrew Jackson became president for the first time and was supported by John C. Calhoun, who was then still part of the Democratic Republican Party. When Jackson won and Calhoun became its vice-president, John C. Calhoun can become a Democrat are counted.)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Officially, in 1800 the rule still applied that the runner-up was appointed Vice President. Within the Republicans, however, Thomas Jefferson was considered a quasi-top candidate and Aaron Burr as a candidate for the vice presidency.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} If the number of a president is in round brackets, this means that the respective president has not yet been elected, but has only moved up from the office of vice-president to the office of president and was then able to win the following election himself.
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} After the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in his second term in office, Gerald Ford was appointed by Richard Nixon as the new Vice President. This was the first time in the history of the United States that a person had moved up to the vacant position of Vice President. This has been possible since the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1967 .
    After Nixon resigned himself a year later, Ford took over as the 38th US President. He was the first and so far only President of the USA who was never elected. [hence the square brackets around the President number 38 in the table] Thus, immediately afterwards, the 25th additional article was applied for the second time and Nelson Rockefeller was placed on the vacated chair of the Vice President by Gerald Ford. In the 1976 election that followed, Ford was finally defeated by the Democrat Jimmy Carter.

See also

• List of accurate election results - votes (Engl.)
• List of accurate election results - electoral votes (Engl.)
• Primary (area codes)
• Nomination Congress

literature

• Arthur M. Schlesinger et al. (Ed.): History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968. 4 volumes. Chelsea House, New York 1971.
• Theodore H. White: America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980. Harper & Row, New York 1982.