Candidates Who Lost Their Homestates

[PBrunsel]

It is true. Losing your home state ina presidential election is quite common.

Note: Red election years signify when a candidate lost their home state but won the election.

1804:

Charles C. Pickney: South Carolina
Lost to Thomas Jefferson

1808:

Charles C. Pickney: South Carolina
Lost to James Madison

1816:

Rufus King: New York
Lost to James Monroe

1820:

This is a tough one. John Quincy Adams won one vote from an elector in New Hampshire, so he lost Massachusettes to James Monroe.

1840:

Martin Van Buren: New York
Lost to William H. Harrison

1844 :

James K. Polk: Tennessee
Lost home state to but defeated Henry Clay

1852:

Winfeild Scott: New Jersey
Lost to Franklin Pierce

1856:

John C. Fremont: California (first candidate from)
Lost to James Buchanan

1856:

Millard Fillmore: New York
Lost to John C. Fremont

1860:

Stephen Douglas: Illinois
Lost to Abraham Lincoln who was also from Illinois

1860:

John Breckenridge: Kentucky
Lost to John Bell

1864:
George B. McClellan: New York
Lost to Abraham Lincoln

1872:

Horace Greeley: New York
Lost to Ulysses Grant

1880:

Winfeild S. Hancock: Pennsylvania
Lost to James Garfeild

1888:

Grover Cleaveland: New York
Lost to Benjamin Harrison (And Tammany Hall!)

1892:

Benjamin Harrison: Indiana
Lost to Grover Cleaveland

1900:

William J. Bryan: Nebraska
Lost to William McKinley

1904:

Alton B. Parker: New York
Lost to Theodore Roosevelt, also from New York

1912:

William H. Taft: Ohio
Lost to Woodrow Wilson

1912:

Theodore Roosevelt: New York
Lost to Woodrow Wilson

1916

Woodrow Wilson: New Jersey
Lost to but defeated Charles E. Hughes

1920:

James Cox: Ohio
Lost to Warren Harding, also from Ohio

1924:

John Davis: West Virginia
Lost to Calvin Coolidge

1928:

Alfred E. Smith: New York
Lost to Herbert Hoover

1932:

Herbert Hoover: California
Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt

1936:

Alfred Landon: Kansas
Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940:

Wendell Wilkie: New York
Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, also from new Yorrk

1944:

Thomas Dewey: New York
Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, also from New York

1952:

Adlai E. Stevenson: Illinois
Lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower

1956:

Adlai E. Stevenson: Illinois
Lost to Dwight Eisenhower

1968 :

Richard M. Nixon: New York
Lost to but defeated Hubert H. Humphrey

1972:

George McGovern: South Dakota
Lost to Richard Nixon

2000:

Albert Gore: Tennessee
Lost to George W. Bush

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Woodrow Wilson was from Virginia.

[The Duke]

Wilson lived in New Jersey at te time of his election where he had been the head of Princeton University.

As a pre-emptive answer to a similar question that could be asked in the future, Nixon was originally from CA but spent the years prior to 1968 practicing law in New York City.

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I consider W.Wilson once and always a Virginian. I give him much respect. Virginia is the gateway to all the other 50 states. I can't remember the exact quote.

[PBrunsel]

Any more comments at all about this post?

[Gustaf]

Well, really good work and interesting stats...I just didn't think of anything to say about it.

[PBrunsel]

Well, really good work and interesting stats...I just didn't think of anything to say about it.

I think your right.

[qwerty]

1968 :

Richard M. Nixon: New York
Lost to but defeated Hubert H. Humphrey

Nixon was born and raised in California, and represented that state in the House, Senate, and as VP. He moved to NY in 1964. He won California, which was really his "home state" in 1960, 1968 and 1972.

[PBrunsel]

1968 :

Richard M. Nixon: New York
Lost to but defeated Hubert H. Humphrey

Nixon was born and raised in California, and represented that state in the House, Senate, and as VP. He moved to NY in 1964. He won California, which was really his "home state" in 1960, 1968 and 1972.

Well in 1968 he said New York was his home state. The history books say that and so does the atlas, so I say new York was his homestate in 1968.