Year Candidate Party Electoral Vote Popular Vote Electoral Vote %

Ulysses S. Grant Republican 286 3,597,132 78.1%

1872
Horace Greeley Democratic 42 2,834,125 11.5%

Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 185 4,033,768 50.1%

1876
Samuel J. Tilden Democratic 184 4,285,992 49.9%
James A. Garfield Republican 214 4,449,053 58.0%
1880
Winfield S. Hancock Democratic 155 4,442,035 42.0%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 219 4,911,017 54.6%
1884
James G. Blaine Republican 182 4,848,334 45.4%
Benjamin Harrison Republican 233 5,440,216 58.1%
1888
Grover Cleveland Democratic 168 5,538,233 41.9%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 277 5,556,918 62.4%
1892
Benjamin Harrison Republican 145 5,176,108 32.7%
William McKinley Republican 271 7,035,638 60.6%
1896
William J. Bryan Democratic 176 6,467,946 39.4%
William McKinley Republican 292 7,219,530 65.3%
1900
William J. Bryan Democratic 155 6,358,071 34.7%
Theodore Roosevelt Republican 336 7,628,834 70.6%
1904
Alton B. Parker Democratic 140 5,084,491 29.4%
William H. Taft Republican 321 7,679,006 66.5%
1908
William J. Bryan Democratic 162 6,409,106 33.5%

1912
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 435 6,286,214 81.9%
Theodore Roosevelt Progressive 88 4,126,020 16.6%

Woodrow Wilson Democratic 277 9,129,606 52.2%

1916
Charles E. Hughes Republican 254 8,538,221 47.8%
Warren G. Harding Republican 404 16,152,200 76.1%
1920
James M. Cox Democratic 127 9,147,353 23.9%

Calvin Coolidge Republican 382 15,725,016 71.9%

1924
John W. Davis Democratic 136 8,385,586 25.6%

1928
Herbert Hoover Republican 444 21,392,190 83.6%
Alfred E. Smith Democratic 87 15,016,443 16.4%

1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 472 21,392,190 88.9%
Herbert Hoover Republican 59 15,016,443 11.1%

1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 523 27,751,597 98.5%
Alfred M. Landon Republican 8 16,679,583 1.5%

1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 449 27,244,160 84.6%
Wendell Wilkie Republican 82 22,305,198 15.4%

1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 432 25,602,504 81.4%
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 99 22,006,285 18.6%

Harry S Truman Democratic 303 24,179,345 57.1%

1948
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 189 21,991,291 35.6%

1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican 442 33,936,234 83.2%
 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson Democratic 89 27,314,992 16.8%

1956
Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican 457 35,590,472 86.1%
Adlai E. Stevenson Democratic 73 26,022,752 13.7%

John F. Kennedy Democratic 303 34,226,731 56.4%

1960
Richard M. Nixon Republican 219 24,108,157 40.8%

1964
Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic 486 43,129,484 90.3%
Barry M. Goldwater Republican 52 27,178,188 9.7%

Richard M. Nixon Republican 301 31,785,480 55.9%

1968
Hubert H. Humphrey Democratic 191 31,275,166 35.5%

1972
Richard M. Nixon Republican 520 47,169,911 96.7%
George McGovern Democratic 17 29,170,183 3.2%

Jimmy Carter Democratic 297 40,380,763 55.2%

1976
Gerald R. Ford Republican 240 39,147,973 44.6%

1980
Ronald Reagan Republican 489 43,899,248 90.9%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 49 36,481,435 9.1%

1984
Ronald Reagan Republican 525 54,455,075 97.6%
Walter F. Mondale Democratic 13 37,577,185 2.4%

George H. Bush Republican 426 48,886,097 79.2%

1988
Michael S. Dukakis Democratic 111 41,809,074 20.6%

William J. Clinton Democratic 370 44,908,889 68.8%

1992
George H. Bush Republican 168 39,104,545 31.2%
William J. Clinton Democratic 379 47,402,357 70.4%
1996
Robert J. Dole Republican 159 39,198,755 29.6%
George W. Bush Republican 271 50,456,002 50.5%
2000
Albert A. Gore Democratic 266 50,999,897 49.5%
George W. Bush Republican 286 62,028,285 53.2%
2004
John F. Kerry Democratic 251 59,028,109 46.7%
Barack Obama Democratic 364 63,093,832 67.7%
2008
John McCain Republican 174 55,851,014 32.3%

Note: Some results do not add up to 100% or to the total electoral votes. This is because in some elections more than tw
Popular Vote % Total Electoral Votes Total Popular Votes

55.9% 366 6,431,257

44.1%
48.0% 369 8,401,497
51.0%
48.4% 369 9,199,666
48.3%
48.7% 401 10,085,090
48.1%
47.8% 401 11,374,890
48.7%
46.2% 444 12,038,187
43.0%
51.1% 447 13,768,739
47.0%
52.8% 447 13,672,369
46.5%
58.2% 476 13,115,725
38.8%
53.0% 483 14,490,932
44.2%
55.6% 531 11,309,245
36.5%
50.0% 531 18,252,940
46.8%
61.6% 531 26,217,352
34.9%
54.3% 531 28,933,458
29.0%

58.3% 531 36,676,053

40.9%
57.4% 531 37,293,414
40.3%
62.2% 531 44,618,900
37.4%
54.9% 531 49,648,915
44.9%
53.7% 531 47,689,307
46.1%
49.7% 531 48,643,659
45.2%
55.4% 531 61,251,226
 44.6%
57.8% 531 61,613,224
42.2%
58.7% 537 58,334,888
41.3%
61.3% 538 70,307,672
38.7%
43.6% 538 72,967,119
42.9%
60.9% 538 77,439,576
37.7%
50.3% 538 80,285,367
48.8%
51.0% 538 86,100,120
42.4%
59.2% 538 92,032,260
40.8%
53.9% 538 90,695,171
46.1%
43.3% 538 103,755,701
37.7%
50.1% 538 94,686,514
41.4%
48.4% 537 104,338,854
48.9%
51.2% 538 121,056,394
48.8%
53.0% 538 118,944,846
47.0%

ome elections more than two parties received votes.