How each election's map would look like if the PV was tied

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1940 to 1956 (reverse chronological order)

1956:

Stevenson: 287
Eisenhower: 244

1952:

Eisenhower: 284
Stevenson: 247

The two are not that different, but it does show that 1956 was a “farm crisis” election affected by the long drought on the Great Plains during the middle of that decade.

1948:

Dewey: 281
Truman: 212
Thurmond: 38

1944:

Dewey: 316
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 215

1940:

Willkie: 315
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 216

One surprise for me is how early Washington State turned Democratic relative to the nation. Like California and Oregon, it was (apart from Wilson in 1916) effectively a one-party Republican bastion during the “System of 1896”, yet it was more Democratic than the nation during every election from 1936 to 1972 except for 1960 when the state’s anti-Catholic tendencies were influential.

[mianfei]

1892 to 1920 excluding 1912 (reverse chronological order)

1920:

Harding: 283
Cox: 248

1916:

Hughes: 277
Wilson: 254
(exact opposite of actual electoral vote!)

1908:

Taft: 257
Bryan: 226

1904:

Parker: 240
Roosevelt: 236

1900:

McKinley: 258
Bryan: 189

1896:

McKinley: 247
Bryan: 200

1892:

Cleveland: 226
Harrison: 208
Weaver: 10