Un-Realigning Elections

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How many elections have there been in which geopolitical trends have been temporarily (or wholly) reversed?

1976 is by far the easiest one to think of for me.

[Skill and Chance]

1992 also for the South
1916 because Republicans thought they had finally regained the inland West over 1900-1908

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Yeah, 1992 and to a lesser extent was the last gasp of Southern parochialism matched up with Clinton centrism, building a coalition of traditional Democratic Black voters and swinging whites who voted for Carter/Reagan/Bush. But that faded even there, despite Clinton strengthening in other regions. And it was dead by 2000, largely due to the collapse of the Southern White vote for the Democrats.

[Orser67]

1928 is interesting for how well Hoover did in the South. It was the best election for Republicans in the South since Reconstruction (in part due to Democratic candidate Al Smith's Catholicism), but didn't lead to long-term gains at all for Republicans.

[bobloblaw]

1928 is interesting for how well Hoover did in the South. It was the best election for Republicans in the South since Reconstruction (in part due to Democratic candidate Al Smith's Catholicism), but didn't lead to long-term gains at all for Republicans.

Smith was Catholic... that's why