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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.
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 ...
Candidates in the 1880 United States presidential election (1 C, 14 P) Candidates in the 1884 United States presidential election (2 C, 14 P) Candidates in the 1888 United States presidential election (2 C, 8 P)
The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and reported. Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4]
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...
The following is a summary of United States presidential elections from 1828 to 2020. Year Democratic [a] Republican [b] Other Total Turn-out [1] [c] Majority [d ...
2008 United States presidential election by state (1 C, 53 P) 2012 United States presidential election by state (1 C, 52 P) 2016 United States presidential election by state (1 C, 55 P)
This was also the third presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1940, 1944, and 2016. 5.83% of Harding's votes came from the eleven states of the former Confederacy, with him taking 35.09% of the vote in that region.