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Through 2020, there have been 59 presidential elections. This page links to the results of those historical elections, including a larger map, results and synopsis of the race. An interactive version of each map is also available, letting you change history.
During the first presidential election in 1789, in four of the 11 states of the time, the electors were elected directly by voters. In two others, a hybrid system was used where both the voters and the state legislatures took part in electing the electors.
U.S. presidential election results. 1 In elections from 1789 to 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. 2 In early elections, electors were chosen by legislatures, not by popular vote, in many states.
Presidential Election results for every election, from 1789 to the present. Includes all candidates, their parties, number of electoral and popular votes.
This article provides a link to interactive election maps and lists those elections in chronological order. (For more information about the office of the U.S. presidency, see presidency of the United States of America .)
Historical Timeline. View the electoral map for any prior presidential election. Click or tap any of the maps for a more detailed narrative of that election and a link to an interactive version where you can change history. For a different perspective, look at the same since maps, which track the current single party voting streak for each ...
Candidates by Party. Democratic-Republican Candidates: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson. Federalist Candidate: John Adams, Charles C. Pinckney. * The tie in the Electoral College sent the election to the House of Representatives, where Jefferson received the most votes.
Election of 2020. In 2020 Joe Biden defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump. Discover how the United States voted in every presidential election since 1789.
Gathers data from presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections and examines historical voting patterns from 1788 to 1999. The material in each of the eight chapters is introduced with an essay that explains the data and its importance, and sets it all in context.
Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1936 election with 523 electoral votes, while his opponent Alfred M. Landon received 8. Decades later, the country turned almost entirely...