Results by Census Regions and Divisions

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Here are maps showing the % margins by region & division for 1892-2012:

1892



1896



1900



1904



1908



1912



1916



1920



1924



1928



1932



1936



1940



1944



1948



1952



1956



1960



1964



1968



1972



1976



1980



1984



1988



1992



1996



2000



2004



2008



2012

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You're already finished? how cool ...

I'm not quite as quick as all that - I'd made them up some time ago but had never thought to put them up here.

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There have been five presidents (since 1892) who won each division:

Hoover (1928)
Roosevelt (1932, 1936)
Nixon (1972)
Reagan (1980, 1984)
Bush Sr. (1988, lol)

And only two instances where the loser won more divisions than the winner:
1896 - Bryan (5-4)
1960 - Nixon (5-4)

No loser has ever won three of four regions, but there have been six ties (five of them famously close elections):
1896
1916
1960
1976
2000
2004

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Pretty interesting. '72 is the first time that the South is more Republican than the rest of the country, and it apparently fails to re-occur until 1988.

It also happened in 1984:
Northeast - 55-44
South - 61-38
Midwest - 58-41
West - 60-39

The three northern regions collectively went for Reagan 58-42.

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Those look really cool DistingFlyer!

might double check  84 and 88 for East South Central,  I think they were more Republican than that.

Have done so: East South Central was 59.8%-39.4% in 1984, and 58.0%-41.3% in 1988. The maps are correct.

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Those look really cool DistingFlyer!

might double check  84 and 88 for East South Central,  I think they were more Republican than that.

Have done so: East South Central was 59.8%-39.4% in 1984, and 58.0%-41.3% in 1988. The maps are correct.

I think you image-linked the division map from 1980 again in both cases.

Ah, so I did - thank you. Will fix.