User:RapidsLurker15/Major party US presidential candidates

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This article is meant to list every US presidential candidate from the major political parties. Candidates from third parties will not be listed here.

Candidates[edit]

Election Parties
Independent Federalist Democratic-Republican Democratic Whig Republican
           
1788–89 George Washington
43,782 (100%)
69 electoral votes 		(did not exist) (did not exist) (did not exist) (did not exist) (did not exist)
1792 George Washington
28,300 (100%)
132 electoral votes
1796 none[a] John Adams
35,726 (53.4%)
71 electoral votes 		Thomas Jefferson
31,115 (46.6%)
68 electoral votes
1800 none[a] John Adams
29,621 (39.4%)
65 electoral votes 		Thomas Jefferson
45,467 (60.5%)
73 electoral votes
1804 none[a] Charles C. Pinckney
38,919 (27.2%)
14 electoral votes 		Thomas Jefferson
104,110 (72.8%)
162 electoral votes
1808 none[a] Charles C. Pinckney
62,431 (32.4%)
47 electoral votes 		James Madison
124,732 (64.8%)
122 electoral votes
1812 none[a] none[b] James Madison
140,431 (50.4%)
128 electoral votes

DeWitt Clinton[c]
132,781 (47.6%)
89 electoral votes

1816 none[a] Rufus King
34,740 (30.9%)
34 electoral votes 		James Monroe
76,592 (68.2%)
183 electoral votes
1820 none[a] none[b] James Monroe
87,343 (80.6%)
228/231 electoral votes[d]
1824[e] none[a] (did not exist) John Quincy Adams[f][g]
113,122 (30.9%)
84 electoral votes

Andrew Jackson[h]
151,271 (41.4%)
99 electoral votes

William H. Crawford[i]
40,856 (11.2%)
41 electoral votes

Henry Clay[g]
47,531 (13.0%)
37 electoral votes

1828 none[a] (did not exist) Andrew Jackson
638,348 (55.5%)
178 electoral votes 		John Quincy Adams[j]
507,440 (44.0%)
83 electoral votes
1832 none[a] Andrew Jackson
701,780 (54.2%)
219 electoral votes 		Henry Clay[j]
484,205 (37.4%)
49 electoral votes
1836 none[a] Martin Van Buren
764,176 (50.8%)
170 electoral votes 		William Henry Harrison
550,816 (36.6%)
73 electoral votes

Hugh L. White
146,109 (9.7%)
26 electoral votes

Daniel Webster
41,201 (2.7%)
14 electoral votes

Willie P. Mangum
N/A (0.0%)
11 electoral votes

1840 none[a] Martin Van Buren
1,128,854 (46.8%)
60 electoral votes 		William Henry Harrison
1,275,390 (52.9%)
234 electoral votes
1844 none[a] James K. Polk
1,339,494 (49.5%)
170 electoral votes 		Henry Clay
1,300,005 (48.1%)
105 electoral votes
1848 none[a] Lewis Cass
1,223,460 (42.5%)
127 electoral votes 		Zachary Taylor
1,361,396 (47.3%)
163 electoral votes
1852 none[a] Franklin Pierce
1,607,521 (50.8%)
254 electoral votes 		Winfield Scott
1,386,943 (43.9%)
42 electoral votes
1856 none[a] James Buchanan
1,836,072 (45.3%)
174 electoral votes 		Millard Fillmore[k]
873,053 (21.5%)
8 electoral votes 		John C. Frémont
1,342,345 (33.1%)
114 electoral votes
1860 none[a] John C. Breckenridge[l]
848,019 (18.1%)
72 electoral votes

Stephen A. Douglas[l]
1,380,202 (29.5%)
12 electoral votes

(did not exist) Abraham Lincoln
1,865,908 (39.8%)
180 electoral votes
1864 none[a] George B. McClellan
1,812,807 (45.0%)
21 electoral votes 		Abraham Lincoln
2,218,388 (55.0%)
212 electoral votes
1868 none[a] Horatio Seymour
2,706,829 (47.3%)
80 electoral votes 		Ulysses S. Grant
3,013,421 (52.7%)
214 electoral votes
1872 none[a] none[m] Ulysses S. Grant
3,598,235 (55.6%)
286 electoral votes

Horace Greeley[n]
2,834,976 (43.8%)
0 electoral votes[o]

1876[e] none[a] Samuel J. Tilden
4,286,808 (50.9%)
184 electoral votes 		Rutherford B. Hayes
4,034,142 (47.9%)
185 electoral votes
1880 none[a] Winfield Scott Hancock
4,444,260 (48.21%)
155 electoral votes 		James A. Garfield
4,446,158 (48.32%)
214 electoral votes
1884 none[a] Grover Cleveland
4,914,482 (48.8%)
219 electoral votes 		James G. Blaine
4,856,905 (48.3%)
182 electoral votes
1888[e] none[a] Grover Cleveland
5,534,488 (48.6%)
168 electoral votes 		Benjamin Harrison
5,443,892 (47.8%)
233 electoral votes
1892 none[a] Grover Cleveland
5,556,918 (46.0%)
277 electoral votes 		Benjamin Harrison
5,176,108 (43.0%)
145 electoral votes
1896 none[a] William Jennings Bryan
6,510,807 (46.7%)
176 electoral votes 		William McKinley
7,112,138 (51.0%)
271 electoral votes
1900 none[a] William Jennings Bryan
6,370,932 (45.5%)
155 electoral votes 		William McKinley
7,228,864 (51.6%)
292 electoral votes
1904 none[a] Alton B. Parker
5,083,880 (37.6%)
140 electoral votes 		Theodore Roosevelt
7,630,457 (56.4%)
336 electoral votes
1908 none[a] William Jennings Bryan
6,408,984 (43.1%)
162 electoral votes 		William Howard Taft
7,678,395 (51.6%)
321 electoral votes
1912 none[a] Woodrow Wilson
6,296,284 (41.8%)
435 electoral votes 		William Howard Taft
3,486,242 (23.2%)
8 electoral votes
1916 none[a] Woodrow Wilson
9,126,868 (49.2%)
277 electoral votes 		Charles Evans Hughes
8,548,728 (46.1%)
254 electoral votes
1920 none[a] James M. Cox
9,140,256 (34.1%)
127 electoral votes 		Warren G. Harding
16,166,126 (60.4%)
404 electoral votes
1924 none[a] John W. Davis
8,386,242 (28.8%)
136 electoral votes 		Calvin Coolidge
15,723,789 (54.0%)
382 electoral votes
1928 none[a] Al Smith
15,015,464 (40.8%)
87 electoral votes 		Herbert Hoover
21,427,123 (58.2%)
444 electoral votes
1932 none[a] Franklin D. Roosevelt
22,821,277 (57.4%)
472 electoral votes 		Herbert Hoover
15,761,254 (39.6%)
59 electoral votes
1936 none[a] Franklin D. Roosevelt
27,747,636 (60.8%)
523 electoral votes 		Alf Landon
16,679,543 (36.5%)
8 electoral votes
1940 none[a] Franklin D. Roosevelt
27,313,945 (54.7%)
449 electoral votes 		Wendell Willkie
22,347,744 (44.8%)
82 electoral votes
1944 none[a] Franklin D. Roosevelt
25,612,916 (53.4%)
432 electoral votes 		Thomas E. Dewey
22,017,929 (45.9%)
99 electoral votes
1948 none[a] Harry S. Truman
24,178,347 (49.6%)
303 electoral votes 		Thomas E. Dewey
21,991,292 (45.1%)
189 electoral votes
1952 none[a] Adlai Stevenson II
27,375,090 (44.3%)
89 electoral votes 		Dwight D. Eisenhower
34,075,529 (55.2%)
442 electoral votes
1956 none[a] Adlai Stevenson II
26,028,028 (42.0%)
73 electoral votes 		Dwight D. Eisenhower
35,579,180 (57.4%)
457 electoral votes
1960 none[a] John F. Kennedy
34,220,984 (49.72%)
303 electoral votes 		Richard Nixon
34,108,157 (49.55%)
219 electoral votes
1964 none[a] Lyndon B. Johnson
43,129,040 (61.1%)
486 electoral votes 		Barry Goldwater
27,175,754 (38.5%)
52 electoral votes
1968 none[a] Hubert Humphrey
31,271,839 (42.7%)
191 electoral votes 		Richard Nixon
31,783,783 (43.4%)
301 electoral votes
1972 none[a] George McGovern
29,173,222 (37.5%)
17 electoral votes 		Richard Nixon
47,168,710 (60.7%)
520 electoral votes
1976 none[a] Jimmy Carter
40,831,881 (50.1%)
297 electoral votes 		Gerald Ford
39,148,634 (48.0%)
240 electoral votes
1980 John B. Anderson
5,719,850 (6.6%)
0 electoral votes 		Jimmy Carter
35,481,115 (41.0%)
49 electoral votes 		Ronald Reagan
43,903,230 (50.7%)
489 electoral votes
1984 none[a] Walter Mondale
37,577,185 (40.6%)
13 electoral votes 		Ronald Reagan
54,455,075 (58.8%)
525 electoral votes
1988 none[a] Michael Dukakis
41,809,074 (45.7%)
111 electoral votes 		George H. W. Bush
48,886,597 (53.4%)
426 electoral votes
1992 Ross Perot
19,743,821 (18.9%)
0 electoral votes 		Bill Clinton
44,909,889 (43.0%)
370 electoral votes 		George H. W. Bush
39,104,550 (37.5%)
168 electoral votes
1996 none[a] Bill Clinton
47,401,185 (49.2%)
379 electoral votes 		Bob Dole
39,197,469 (40.7%)
159 electoral votes
2000[e] none[a] Al Gore
50,999,897 (48.4%)
266 electoral votes 		George W. Bush
50,456,002 (47.9%)
271 electoral votes
2004 none[a] John Kerry
59,028,444 (48.3%)
251 electoral votes 		George W. Bush
62,040,610 (50.7%)
286 electoral votes
2008 none[a] Barack Obama
69,498,516 (52.9%)
365 electoral votes 		John McCain
59,948,323 (45.7%)
173 electoral votes
2012 none[a] Barack Obama
65,915,795 (51.1%)
332 electoral votes 		Mitt Romney
60,933,504 (47.2%)
206 electoral votes
2016[e] none[a] Hillary Clinton
65,853,514 (48.2%)
227 electoral votes 		Donald Trump
62,984,828 (46.1%)
304 electoral votes
2020 none[a] Joe Biden
81,283,501 (51.3%)
306 electoral votes 		Donald Trump
74,223,975 (46.8%)
232 electoral votes
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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc No notable independent candidates ran for president in this election.
  2. ^ a b The Federalist Party did not yield any candidates in the 1812 or 1820 elections.
  3. ^ While he is commonly labeled the Federalist candidate, DeWitt Clinton ran as a Democratic-Republican, with the Federalists not nominating a candidate for the 1812 election. Despite this, Clinton received endorsements from state Federalist parties, such as in Pennsylvania.
  4. ^ Three electors who were pledged to the Monroe/Tompkins ticket died before the Electoral College convened.
  5. ^ a b c d e The winner of this election did not win the popular vote.
  6. ^ John Quincy Adams was declared the winner of the election when the vote went to the House of Representatives. Adams won the delegate vote 13–7.
  7. ^ a b John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ran as part of the "Adams-Clay" Republican bloc, which eventually became the National Republican Party.
  8. ^ Andrew Jackson represented the Jacksonian bloc, which eventually became the Democratic Party.
  9. ^ William H. Crawford ran as part of the Old Republican bloc, which eventually merged into the Democratic Party.
  10. ^ a b Represented the National Republican Party.
  11. ^ Millard Fillmore ran as a member of the Know Nothing party, since the Whig Party was on the verge of collapse.
  12. ^ a b John C. Breckenridge was nominated by the Southern branch of the Democratic Party, whereas Stephen A. Douglas was nominated by the main branch of the party.
  13. ^ In 1872, the Democratic Party decided to nominate Horace Greeley of the Liberal Republican Party rather than nominate their own candidate.
  14. ^ Horace Greeley represented the Liberal Republican Party.
  15. ^ Horace Greeley died before the Electoral College could convene. As a result, his electoral votes instead went to four different candidates.
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