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 | 1. | 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 | 2. | ↙ ⇙, (↙ ⇙) 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 | 3. | ↙ ⇙ 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 | 4th | James Madison | ↓, (↓) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist) | ||
7th | 1812 | DeWitt Clinton (Federalist / Peace Party ) | Elbridge Gerry † | 5. | ||
8th | 1816 | 5. | James Monroe | Rufus King (Federalist) | Daniel D. Tompkins | 6th |
9 | 1820 | (no opposing candidate) | ||||
10 | 1824 ( 2 ) | 6th | 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 | 7th | ↙ 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 | 8th. | ⇙ 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 |
10. |
9.
↙ 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) |
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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 ) |
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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) |
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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 ) |
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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:
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:
1.) Meaning of the arrows for people with previous candidacies ( simple arrows →, ↘, ↙, ↓):
2.) Meaning of the arrows for persons with a previous vice presidency ( double arrows from right or top right ⇐, ⇙):
3.) Meaning of the arrows for persons with a previous presidency ( double arrows from above or top left ⇓, ⇘):
Meaning of the symbols behind the names:
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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:
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.)
- ↑ The 7th column of the table (heading "VizeP.Nr.") Contains the number of the Vice President in office.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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.
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↑ 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.) - ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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↑ 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.