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This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
List of presidential candidates by votes in individual elections [1]; Candidate Year Party Popular vote Percentage Notes Joe Biden: 2020: Democratic: 81,283,501
The United States instead uses indirect elections for its president through the Electoral College, and the system is highly decentralized like other elections in the United States. [1] The Electoral College and its procedure are established in the U.S. Constitution by Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 4 ; and the Twelfth Amendment (which ...
This marked the first time a current or former US President had been shot since then-President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, the first time a presidential candidate was shot on the campaign trail since the shooting of Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972, [159] and the first time a former President had ...
Johnstone, Andrew, and Andrew Priest, eds. US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton (2017) pp 229–249. online; MacDougall, Malcolm D. (1977). We Almost Made It. New York: Crown. ISBN 0-517-52933-5. Roessner, Amber (2020). Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media ...
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
In United States presidential politics, voters within both the Democratic and Republican parties select their candidates for the presidential election through a series of primary elections. For this list, any candidate that received at least 250,000 total votes in an election year's primary contests or became their party's nominee will be ...
Herron, Michael C., et al. "Measurement of political effects in the United States economy: A study of the 1992 presidential election." Economics & Politics 11.1 (1999): 51–81. Johnstone, Andrew, and Andrew Priest, eds. US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton (2017) pp ...