United States presidential election

The **election of the President and Vice President of the United States** is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a set of members of the U.S. Electoral College. These electors then cast direct votes for the President and Vice President. If both votes result in an absolute majority, the election is over. If a majority of electors do not vote for President, the House of Representatives chooses the President; if a majority of electors do not vote for Vice President, the Senate votes. Presidential elections occur quadrennially on Election Day, which since 1845 has been the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, coinciding with the general elections of various other federal, state, and local races. The most recent United States presidential election was held on November 5, 2024.

## List of presidential elections

These are the lists of every U.S. presidential elections since 1788 to 2028.

**Bold** indicates the winners and results of each election.

Each colour represents each party (winner) in every election.

- Parties

|Year|Major candidates|Electoral votes|Popular votes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1788|**George Washington**|**69**||
|1792|**George Washington**|**132**||
|1796|**John Adams** Thomas Jefferson|**71** 68||
|1800|**Thomas Jefferson** John Adams|**73** 65||
|1804|**Thomas Jefferson** Charles C. Pinckney|**162** 14||
|1808|**James Madison** Charles C. Pinckney|**122** 47||
|1812|**James Madison** DeWitt Clinton|**128** 89||
|1816|**James Monroe** Rufus King|**183** 34||
|1820|**James Monroe**|**231**||
|1824|**John Quincy Adams** Andrew Jackson William H. Crawford Henry Clay|84 (**13 delegates**) **99** (7 delegates) 41 (4 delegates) 37 (N/A delegates)||
|1828|**Andrew Jackson** John Quincy Adams|**178** 83||
|1832|**Andrew Jackson** Henry Clay John Floyd William Wirt|**219** 49 11 7||
|1836|**Martin Van Buren** William Henry Harrison Hugh L. White Daniel Webster Willie P. Mangum|**170** 73 26 14 11||
|1840|**William Henry Harrison** Martin Van Buren|**234** 60||
|1844|**James K. Polk** Henry Clay|**170** 105||
|1848|**Zachary Taylor** Lewis Cass|**163** 127||
|1852|**Franklin Pierce** Winfield Scott|**254** 42||
|1856|**James Buchanan** John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore|**174** 114 8||
|1860|**Abraham Lincoln** John C. Breckinridge John Bell Stephen A. Douglas|**180** 72 39 12||
|1864|**Abraham Lincoln** George B. McClellan|**212** 21||
|1868|**Ulysses S. Grant** Horatio Seymour|**214** 80||
|1872|**Ulysses S. Grant** Horace Greeley Thomas A. Hendricks Benjamin Gratz Brown Charles J. Jenkins David Davis|**286** (14 invalidated) 0 (63 invalidated and 3 rejected) 42 18 2 1||
|1876|**Rutherford B. Hayes** Samuel J. Tilden|**185** 184||
|1880|**James A. Garfield** Winfield Scott Hancock|**214** 155||
|1884|**Grover Cleveland** James G. Blaine|**219** 182||
|1888|**Benjamin Harrison** Grover Cleveland|**233** 168||
|1892|**Grover Cleveland** Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver|**277** 145 22||
|1896|**William McKinley** William Jennings Bryan|**271** 176||
|1900|**William McKinley** William Jennings Bryan|**292** 155||
|1904|**Theodore Roosevelt** Alton B. Parker|**336** 140||
|1908|**William Howard Taft** William Jennings Bryan|**321** 162||
|1912|**Woodrow Wilson** Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft|**435** 88 8||
|1916|**Woodrow Wilson** Charles Evans Hughes|**277** 254||
|1920|**Warren G. Harding** James M. Cox|**404** 127||
|1924|**Calvin Coolidge** John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette|**382** 136 13||
|1928|**Herbert Hoover** Al Smith|**444** 87||
|1932|**Franklin D. Roosevelt** Herbert Hoover|**472** 59||
|1936|**Franklin D. Roosevelt** Alf Landon|**523** 8||
|1940|**Franklin D. Roosevelt** Wendell Willkie|**449** 82||
|1944|**Franklin D. Roosevelt** Thomas E. Dewey|**432** 99||
|1948|**Harry S. Truman** Thomas E. Dewey Strom Thurmond|**303** 189 39||
|1952|**Dwight D. Eisenhower** Adlai Stevenson II|**442** 89||
|1956|**Dwight D. Eisenhower** Adlai Stevenson II Walter Burgwyn Jones|**457** 73 1||
|1960|**John F. Kennedy** Richard Nixon Harry F. Byrd|**303** 219 15||
|1964|**Lyndon B. Johnson** Barry Goldwater|**486** 52||
|1968|**Richard Nixon** Hubert Humphrey George Wallace|**301** 191 46||
|1972|**Richard Nixon** George McGovern John G. Hospers|**520** 17 1||
|1976|**Jimmy Carter** Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan|**297** 240 1||
|1980|**Ronald Reagan** Jimmy Carter|**489** 49||
|1984|**Ronald Reagan** Walter Mondale|**525** 13||
|1988|**George H. W. Bush** Michael Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen|**426** 111 1||
|1992|**Bill Clinton** George H. W. Bush|**370** 168||
|1996|**Bill Clinton** Bob Dole|**379** 159||
|2000|**George W. Bush** Al Gore|**271** 266||
|2004|**George W. Bush** John Kerry John Edwards|**286** 251 1||
|2008|**Barack Obama** John McCain|**365** 173||
|2012|**Barack Obama** Mitt Romney|**332** 206||
|2016|**Donald Trump** Hillary Clinton Colin Powell Faith Spotted Eagle Ron Paul John Kasich Bernie Sanders|**304** (306) 227 (232) 3 1 1 1 1||
|2020|**Joe Biden** Donald Trump|**306** 232||
|2024|**Donald Trump** Kamala Harris|**312** 226||

## Eligibility

To be eligible to be president, a candidate must:
- Be a natural-born citizen of the United States
- Be at least 35 years old
- Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years