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
editElection | Parties | |||||
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Independent | Federalist | Democratic-Republican | Democratic | Whig | Republican | |
1788–89 | George Washington 43,782 (100%) 69 electoral votes |
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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] | |||
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] | John Quincy Adams[f][g] 113,122 (30.9%) 84 electoral votes Andrew Jackson[h] William H. Crawford[i] Henry Clay[g] | ||||
1828 | none[a] | 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 Daniel Webster Willie P. Mangum | |||
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] |
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] | |||
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 | |||
2024 | TBA[p] | Joe Biden[q] | Donald Trump[q] |
Notes
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b The Federalist Party did not yield any candidates in the 1812 or 1820 elections.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Three electors who were pledged to the Monroe/Tompkins ticket died before the Electoral College convened.
- ^ a b c d e The winner of this election did not win the popular vote.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ran as part of the "Adams-Clay" Republican bloc, which eventually became the National Republican Party.
- ^ Andrew Jackson represented the Jacksonian bloc, which eventually became the Democratic Party.
- ^ William H. Crawford ran as part of the Old Republican bloc, which eventually merged into the Democratic Party.
- ^ a b Represented the National Republican Party.
- ^ Millard Fillmore ran as a member of the Know Nothing party, since the Whig Party was on the verge of collapse.
- ^ 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.
- ^ In 1872, the Democratic Party decided to nominate Horace Greeley of the Liberal Republican Party rather than nominate their own candidate.
- ^ Horace Greeley represented the Liberal Republican Party.
- ^ Horace Greeley died before the Electoral College could convene. As a result, his electoral votes instead went to four different candidates.
- ^ There are currently no presumptive independent candidates, although Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been the highest-polling third-party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992.
- ^ a b This candidate is the presumptive nominee.