List of major-party United States presidential candidates who lost their home or resident state
Candidates who lost the election
Columns: Name | Election Year | Party | Birth State | Resident State
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | 1804 | Federalist | Lost South Carolina | Lost South Carolina | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | 1808 | Federalist | Lost South Carolina | Lost South Carolina | Rufus King | 1816 | Federalist | Won Massachusetts | Lost New York | Henry Clay | 1824 | Democratic-Republican | Lost Virginia | Won Kentucky | Henry Clay | 1832 | National Republican | Lost Virginia | Won Kentucky | William Wirt | 1832 | Anti-Masonic | Lost Maryland | Lost Maryland | William Henry Harrison | 1836 | Whig | Lost Virginia | Won Ohio | Hugh Lawson White | 1836 | Whig | Lost North Carolina | Won Tennessee | Daniel Webster | 1836 | Whig | Lost New Hampshire | Won Massachusetts | Willie Person Mangum | 1836 | Whig | Lost North Carolina | Lost North Carolina | Martin Van Buren | 1840 | Democrat | Lost New York | Lost New York | Henry Clay | 1844 | Whig | Lost Virginia | Won Kentucky | Winfield Scott | 1852 | Whig | Lost Virginia | Lost New Jersey | John C. Frémont | 1856 | Republican | Lost Georgia | Lost California | Millard Fillmore | 1856 | Know-Nothing | Lost New York | Lost New York | Stephen A. Douglas | 1860 | Democrat | Lost Vermont | Lost Illinois | John C. Breckinridge | 1860 | Southern Democrat | Lost Kentucky | Lost Kentucky | George B. McClellan | 1864 | Democrat | Lost Pennsylvania | Won New Jersey | Horace Greeley | 1872 | Liberal Republican Democrat | Lost New Hampshire | Lost New York | Winfield Scott Hancock | 1880 | Democrat | Lost Pennsylvania | Lost Pennsylvania | Grover Cleveland | 1888 | Democrat | Won New Jersey | Lost New York | Benjamin Harrison | 1892 | Republican | Won Ohio | Lost Indiana | James B. Weaver | 1892 | Populist | Lost Ohio | Lost Iowa | William Jennings Bryan | 1896 | Democrat-Populist | Lost Illinois | Won Nebraska | William Jennings Bryan | 1900 | Democrat-Populist | Lost Illinois | Lost Nebraska | Alton B. Parker | 1904 | Democrat | Lost New York | Lost New York | William Jennings Bryan | 1908 | Democrat | Lost Illinois | Won Nebraska | Theodore Roosevelt | 1912 | Progressive | Lost New York | Lost New York | William Howard Taft | 1912 | Republican | Lost Ohio | Lost Ohio | James M. Cox | 1920 | Democrat | Lost Ohio | Lost Ohio | John W. Davis | 1924 | Democrat | Lost West Virginia | Lost New York | Al Smith | 1928 | Democrat | Lost New York | Lost New York | Herbert Hoover | 1932 | Republican | Lost Iowa | Lost California | Alf Landon | 1936 | Republican | Lost Pennsylvania | Lost Kansas | Thomas E. Dewey | 1944 | Republican | Lost Michigan | Lost New York | Adlai Stevenson | 1952 | Democrat | Lost California | Lost Illinois | Adlai Stevenson | 1956 | Democrat | Lost California | Lost Illinois | Hubert Humphrey | 1968 | Democrat | Lost South Dakota | Won Minnesota | George McGovern | 1972 | Democrat | Lost South Dakota | Lost South Dakota | Gerald Ford | 1976 | Republican | Won Nebraska | Won Michigan | George H. W. Bush | 1992 | Republican | Lost Massachusetts | Won Texas | Al Gore | 2000 | Democrat | Won District of Columbia | Lost Tennessee | John Kerry | 2004 | Democrat | Lost Colorado | Won Massachusetts | John McCain | 2008 | Republican | N/A | Won Arizona | Mitt Romney | 2012 | Republican | Lost Michigan | Lost Massachusetts