Past Presidential Margins of Victory
List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. The table can be sorted to display United States Presidents by their presidential term, year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the electoral college.
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected. It replaced Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, which provided the original procedure by which the Electoral College functioned. Problems with this procedure were demonstrated in the elections of 1796 and 1800. The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the Congress on December 9, 1803 and was ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures on June 15, 1804.
Since the United States does not hold national elections, the national popular vote is not significant in determining the outcome of the United States presidential election. United States Presidents are elected through the Electoral College. All votes are cast in 50 state-wide elections (as well as the election in the District of Columbia) for that state’s delegates to vote in the electoral college for one party’s candidate.
The national popular vote is the sum of all votes cast in every state election (and DC). So it is not one single election, but rather the added results of 51 separate state-wide elections.
[edit] Table of election results
Democratic-Republican National Republican Party Democratic Whig Republican Progressive
| Term | Year |
Electoral College winner |
Pct. of pop. vote |
Margin | Pop. vote | Margin |
Electoral College runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1824 | John Quincy Adams | 30.92% | −10.44% | 113,142 | −38,221 | Andrew Jackson |
| 11 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson | 55.93% | 12.25% | 642,806 | 140,839 | John Quincy Adams |
| 12 | 1832 | Andrew Jackson | 54.74% | 17.81% | 702,735 | 228,628 | Henry Clay |
| 13 | 1836 | Martin Van Buren | 50.79% | 14.20% | 763,291 | 213,384 | William Henry Harrison |
| 14 | 1840 | William Henry Harrison | 52.87% | 6.05% | 1,275,583 | 145,938 | Martin Van Buren |
| 15 | 1844 | James K. Polk | 49.54% | 1.45% | 1,339,570 | 39,413 | Henry Clay |
| 16 | 1848 | Zachary Taylor | 47.28% | 4.79% | 1,360,235 | 137,882 | Lewis Cass |
| 17 | 1852 | Franklin Pierce | 50.83% | 6.95% | 1,605,943 | 219,525 | Winfield Scott |
| 18 | 1856 | James Buchanan | 45.29% | 12.20% | 1,835,140 | 494,472 | John C. Frémont |
| 19 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | 39.65% | 10.13% | 1,855,993 | 474,049 | John C. Breckinridge |
| 20 | 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | 55.03% | 10.08% | 2,211,317 | 405,090 | George B. McClellan |
| 21 | 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | 52.66% | 5.32% | 3,013,790 | 304,810 | Horatio Seymour |
| 22 | 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 55.58% | 11.80% | 3,597,439 | 763,729 | Horace Greeley |
| 23 | 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 47.92% | −3.00% | 4,034,142 | −252,666 | Samuel J. Tilden |
| 24 | 1880 | James A. Garfield | 48.31% | 0.09% | 4,453,337 | 9,070 | Winfield Scott Hancock |
| 25 | 1884 | Grover Cleveland | 48.85% | 0.57% | 4,914,482 | 57,579 | James G. Blaine |
| 26 | 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | 47.80% | −0.83% | 5,443,633 | −94,530 | Grover Cleveland |
| 27 | 1892 | Grover Cleveland | 46.02% | 3.01% | 5,553,898 | 363,099 | Benjamin Harrison |
| 28 | 1896 | William McKinley | 51.02% | 4.31% | 7,112,138 | 601,331 | William Jennings Bryan |
| 29 | 1900 | William McKinley | 51.64% | 6.12% | 7,228,864 | 857,932 | William Jennings Bryan |
| 30 | 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 56.42% | 18.83% | 7,630,557 | 2,546,677 | Alton Brooks Parker |
| 31 | 1908 | William H. Taft | 51.57% | 8.53% | 7,678,335 | 1,269,356 | William Jennings Bryan |
| 32 | 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 41.84% | 14.44% | 6,296,284 | 2,173,563 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 33 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 49.24% | 3.12% | 9,126,868 | 578,140 | Charles Evans Hughes |
| 34 | 1920 | Warren G. Harding | 60.32% | 26.17% | 16,144,093 | 7,004,432 | James M. Cox |
| 35 | 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 54.04% | 25.22% | 15,723,789 | 7,337,547 | John W. Davis |
| 36 | 1928 | Herbert Hoover | 58.21% | 17.41% | 21,427,123 | 6,411,659 | Al Smith |
| 37 | 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 57.41% | 17.76% | 22,821,277 | 7,060,023 | Herbert Hoover |
| 38 | 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 60.80% | 24.26% | 27,752,648 | 11,070,786 | Alf Landon |
| 39 | 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 54.74% | 9.96% | 27,313,945 | 4,966,201 | Wendell Willkie |
| 40 | 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 53.39% | 7.50% | 25,612,916 | 3,594,987 | Thomas E. Dewey |
| 41 | 1948 | Harry S. Truman | 49.55% | 4.48% | 24,179,347 | 2,188,055 | Thomas E. Dewey |
| 42 | 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 55.18% | 10.85% | 34,075,529 | 6,700,439 | Adlai Stevenson |
| 43 | 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 57.37% | 15.40% | 35,579,180 | 9,551,152 | Adlai Stevenson |
| 44 | 1960 | John F. Kennedy | 49.72% | 0.17% | 34,220,984 | 112,827 | Richard Nixon |
| 45 | 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 61.05% | 22.58% | 43,127,041 | 15,951,287 | Barry Goldwater |
| 46 | 1968 | Richard Nixon | 43.42% | 0.70% | 31,783,783 | 511,944 | Hubert Humphrey |
| 47 | 1972 | Richard Nixon | 60.67% | 23.15% | 47,168,710 | 17,995,488 | George McGovern |
| 48 | 1976 | Jimmy Carter | 50.08% | 2.06% | 40,831,881 | 1,683,247 | Gerald Ford |
| 49 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan | 50.75% | 9.74% | 43,903,230 | 8,423,115 | Jimmy Carter |
| 50 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan | 58.77% | 18.21% | 54,455,472 | 16,878,120 | Walter Mondale |
| 51 | 1988 | George H.W. Bush | 53.37% | 7.72% | 48,886,597 | 7,077,121 | Michael Dukakis |
| 52 | 1992 | Bill Clinton | 43.01% | 5.56% | 44,909,806 | 5,805,256 | George H.W. Bush |
| 53 | 1996 | Bill Clinton | 49.23% | 8.51% | 47,400,125 | 8,201,370 | Bob Dole |
| 54 | 2000 | George W. Bush | 47.87% | −0.51% | 50,460,110 | −543,816 | Al Gore |
| 55 | 2004 | George W. Bush | 50.73% | 2.46% | 62,040,610 | 3,012,171 | John Kerry |
| 56 | 2008 | Barack Obama | 52.87% | 7.27% | 69,499,428 | 9,549,105 | John McCain |
Note: No popular votes tabulated prior to 1824 election. Thus the first nine elections are excluded from this table.
[edit] Sources
- Leip, David. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
[edit] External links
Anyone can join.
Anyone can contribute.
Anyone can become informed about their world.
"United We Stand" Click Here To Create Your Personal Citizen Journalist Account Today, Be Sure To Invite Your Friends.
Please Help Support BeforeitsNews by trying our Natural Health Products below!
Order by Phone at 888-809-8385 or online at https://mitocopper.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomic.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomics.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Humic & Fulvic Trace Minerals Complex - Nature's most important supplement! Vivid Dreams again!
HNEX HydroNano EXtracellular Water - Improve immune system health and reduce inflammation.
Ultimate Clinical Potency Curcumin - Natural pain relief, reduce inflammation and so much more.
MitoCopper - Bioavailable Copper destroys pathogens and gives you more energy. (See Blood Video)
Oxy Powder - Natural Colon Cleanser! Cleans out toxic buildup with oxygen!
Nascent Iodine - Promotes detoxification, mental focus and thyroid health.
Smart Meter Cover - Reduces Smart Meter radiation by 96%! (See Video).
| Online: | |
| Visits: | 1,605,452,896 |
| Stories: | 8,156,264 |
Whistler Blowers, Insiders
