The following is a list of United States presidential election results from 1789 to the present.
1789
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Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
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George Washington
|
-
|
69
|
|
|
|
John Adams
|
-
|
34
|
|
|
|
John Jay
|
-
|
9
|
|
|
|
Robert Harrison
|
-
|
6
|
|
|
|
John Rutledge
|
-
|
6
|
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
14
|
|
|
|
No Votes Cast
|
-
|
24
|
|
1792
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
George Washington*
|
Federalist
|
132
|
|
|
|
John Adams
|
Federalist
|
77
|
|
|
|
George Clinton
|
Democratic Republican
|
50
|
|
|
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
Democratic Republican
|
4
|
|
|
|
Aaron Burr
|
Democratic Republican
|
1
|
|
|
|
No Votes Cast
|
-
|
6
|
|
1840
Results -- buff represents Harrison states, red represents Van Buren states.
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
William H. Harrison
|
John Tyler
|
Whig
|
1,275,583
|
52.87%
|
234
|
|
|
|
Martin Van Buren*
|
Richard M. Johnson*
|
Democratic
|
1,129,645
|
46.82%
|
60
|
|
|
|
James G. Birney
|
Thomas Earle
|
Liberty
|
7,453
|
0.31%
|
0
|
|
|
|
Other
|
-
|
Other
|
13
|
0.00%
|
0
|
|
1844
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
James K. Polk
|
George M. Dallas
|
Democratic
|
1,339,570
|
49.54%
|
170
|
|
|
|
Henry Clay
|
Theodore Frelinghuysen
|
Whig
|
1,300,157
|
48.09%
|
105
|
|
|
|
James G. Birney
|
Thomas Morris
|
Liberty
|
1,300,157
|
2.30%
|
0
|
|
|
|
Other
|
-
|
Other
|
2,083
|
0.08%
|
0
|
|
1856
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
James Buchanan
|
John Breckenridge
|
Democratic
|
1,835,140
|
45.29%
|
174
|
|
|
|
John C. Fremont
|
William Dayton
|
Republican
|
1,340,668
|
33.09%
|
114
|
|
|
|
Millard Fillmore
|
Andrew Donelson
|
Whig-American
|
872,703
|
21.54%
|
8
|
|
|
|
Other
|
-
|
Other
|
3,094
|
0.08%
|
0
|
|
1864
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
Abraham Lincoln*
|
Andrew Johnson
|
Republican
|
2,211,317
|
55.03%
|
212
|
|
|
|
George B. McClellan
|
George H. Pendleton
|
Democratic
|
1,806,227
|
44.95%
|
21
|
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
Other
|
658
|
0.02%
|
0
|
|
1960
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
John F. Kennedy
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
Democratic
|
34,220,984
|
49.72%
|
303
|
|
|
|
Richard Nixon
|
Henry Cabot Lodge
|
Republican
|
34,108,157
|
49.55%
|
219
|
|
|
|
Unpledged Democratic Electors
|
-
|
Democratic
|
286,359
|
|
15
|
|
|
|
Other
|
-
|
Other
|
216,982
|
0.32%
|
0
|
|
1968
|
|
Presidential Candidate
|
Vice Presidential Candidate
|
Party
|
Popular Votes
|
Popular Vote %
|
Electoral Votes
|
Won
|
|
|
Richard Nixon
|
Spiro Agnew
|
Republican
|
31,783,783
|
43.42%
|
301
|
|
|
|
Hubert H. Humphrey
|
Edmund S. Muskie
|
Democratic
|
31,271,839
|
42.72%
|
191
|
|
|
|
George Wallace
|
Curtis LeMay
|
American Independent
|
9,901,118
|
13.53%
|
46
|
|
|
|
Other
|
-
|
Other
|
243,258
|
0.33%
|
0
|
|
^ * denotes an incumbent.
