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1792 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2 – December 5, 1792**

← 1788
1796 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**George Washington**
John Adams

**Political party**
Independent
Federalist

**State**
Virginia
Massachusetts

**Electoral vote**
**132**
77

**Popular vote**
**28,579**
0

**Percentage**
**100.0%**
0.0%

**Nominee**
George Clinton

**Political party**
Democratic-Republican

**State**
New York

**Electoral vote**
50

**Popular vote**
0

**Percentage**
0.0%

Green denotes states won by Washington

The **1792 United States presidential election** was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the Electoral College, while John Adams was re-elected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed, but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York.

## Results

Again per the United States Constitution, a majority of "the whole number of electors appointed" was needed to win the presidency, with electors able to cast two votes. Washington was re-elected unanimously, receiving one vote from each of the 132 participating electors. Adams received votes from 77 electors and Clinton 50.
2022 United States Senate elections

United States Senate

**November 8, 2022
December 6 (Georgia runoff)**

← 2020
*2024* →

## Overview

**Leader**
Chuck Schumer
Mitch McConnell

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**Seat**
New York
Kentucky

**Seats before**
48
50

**Seats after**
**49**
49

**Seat change**
+1
-1

**Popular vote**
39,802,675
**39,876,285**

**Percentage**
49.0%
**49.1%**

**Political party**
Independent

**Seats before**
2

**Seats after**
2

**Seat change**
0

**Popular vote**

**Percentage**

## Results

Dark blue indicates Democratic gain, light blue indicates Democratic hold. Light red indicates Republican hold. Pink indicates pending runoff. Gray indicates no election.

### Elected Majority Leader

Chuck Schumer
Democratic
Chuck Schumer
Democratic

The **2022 United States Senate elections** were held on November 8, 2022 for all 33 Class 3 Senate seats and one special election for Oklahoma's Class 2 Senate seat. They were the 54th Senate elections after the ratification of 17th Amendment (which allowed for Senators to be elected directly) and were held concurrent to other federal elections, including the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections.

The first primaries for the 2022 Senate elections took place in February 2022. The winners of the 2022 Senate elections were inaugurated in the 118th United States Congress on January 3, 2023, and will serve through the 120th United States Congress, ending on January 3, 2029.

The Democratic Party retained control of the chamber, with a net gain of 1 seat. Democrat John Fetterman flipped the Pennsylvania seat held by retiring Republican Pat Toomey, and incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock from Georgia won reelection in a runoff held on December 6.

## Candidates

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1972 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 7, 1972**

← 1968
1976 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Richard Nixon**
George McGovern

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
New York
South Dakota

**Running mate**
**Spiro Agnew**
Sargent Shriver

**Electoral vote**
**520**
17

**Popular vote**
**47,168,710**
29,173,222

**Percentage**
**60.7%**
37.5%

**Nominee**
John G. Schmitz

**Political party**
American Independent

**State**
South Dakota

**Running mate**
Thomas J. Anderson

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
1,100,896

**Percentage**
1.4%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Nixon/Agnew and blue denotes those won by McGovern/Shriver; a faithless elector from Virginia cast their votes for John Hospers/Tonie Nathan, marking the first time a woman received an electoral vote, in this case for Vice President

### Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican
Richard Nixon
Republican

The **1972 United States presidential election** was the 47th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon from California defeated Democratic United States Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Until the 1984 election, this was the largest margin of victory in the Electoral College for a Republican in a U.S. presidential election. It was also the first time when California had more electoral votes than New York.

## Results

Nixon's percentage of the popular vote was only marginally less than Lyndon B. Johnson's record in the 1964 election, and his margin of victory was slightly larger. Nixon won a majority vote in 49 states, including McGovern's home state of South Dakota. Only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia voted for McGovern, resulting in an even more lopsided Electoral College tally. McGovern garnered only 37.5 percent of the national popular vote, the lowest share received by a Democratic Party nominee since John W. Davis won only 28.8 percent of the vote in the 1924 election.

This presidential election was the first since 1808 in which New York did not have the largest number of electors in the Electoral College, having fallen to 41 electors vs. California's 45. Nixon, who became term-limited under the provisions of the Twenty-second Amendment as a result of his victory, became the first presidential candidate to win a significant number of electoral votes in three presidential elections since the ratification of that Amendment. Nixon was the seventh presidential nominee to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections.
American Revolution

### Location

Eastern North America (Thirteen Colonies), North Atlantic Ocean, the West Indies

### Result

**American–Allied victory*** Treaty of Paris
* British recognition of American independence
* End of the First British Empire

Participants| **United States*** Thirteen Colonies
* Patriots

**Vermont Republic****France****Spain****Dutch Republic****Native Americans***Others* | **Great Britain*** Loyalists

Commanders and leaders| **United States*** Peyton Randolph
* John Hancock
* Benjamin Franklin
* George Washington
* Horatio Gates
* Nathanael Greene
* Henry Knox
* John Sullivan
* Benedict Arnold

**France*** Lafayette
* Rochambeau
* Bernardo de Gálvez
* Lord North
* Lord Shelburne
* Lord George Germain
* Thomas Gage
* William Howe
* Henry Clinton
* Charles Cornwallis
* Benedict Arnold
* John Burgoyne
* Henry Hamilton
* Banastre Tarleton

The **American Revolutionary War**, often called the **American Revolution** and also the **American War for Independence**, was a war fought between the Thirteen Colonies, organized as the United States, and Great Britain over the former's objection to the British Parliament's taxation policies and lack of colonial representation. It was an ideological and political revolution which resulted in the independence of the United States from Great Britain and the signing of the Treaty of Paris, where Britain formally recognized the United States as an independent country.

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1924 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 4, 1924**

← 1920
1928 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Calvin Coolidge**
John W. Davis

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Massachusetts
West Virginia

**Running mate**
**Charles G. Dawes**
Charles W. Bryan

**Electoral vote**
**382**
136

**Popular vote**
**15,723,789**
8,386,242

**Percentage**
**54.0%**
28.8%

**Nominee**
Robert M. La Follette

**Political party**
Progressive

**State**
Wisconsin

**Running mate**
Burton K. Wheeler

**Electoral vote**
13

**Popular vote**
4,831,706

**Percentage**
16.6%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Coolidge/Dawes, blue denotes those won by Davis/Bryan, and green denotes those won by Follette/Wheeler

### Elected President

Calvin Coolidge
Republican
Calvin Coolidge
Republican

The **1924 United States presidential election** was the 35th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1924. In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term, defeating Democratic nominee John W. Davis and Progressive nominee Robert M. La Follette.

## Results

This was the first presidential election in which all American Indians were recognized as citizens and allowed to vote. The total vote increased 2,300,000 but, because of the great drawing power of the La Follette candidacy, both the Republican and Democratic totals were less. Largely because of the deep inroads made by La Follette in the Democratic vote, Davis polled 750,000 fewer votes than were cast for James M. Cox in 1920. Coolidge polled 425,000 votes less than Warren G. Harding had in 1920. Nonetheless, La Follette's appeal among liberal Democrats allowed Coolidge to achieve a 25.2 percent margin of victory over Davis in the popular vote.

The La Follette vote was distributed over the nation, and in every state, but its greatest strength lay in the East North Central and West North Central sections. However, La Follette carried no section, and he was second in only two sections, the Mountain and Pacific areas. In twelve states, the La Follette vote was greater than that cast for Davis. In one of these states, Wisconsin, La Follette defeated the Republican ticket also, thus winning one state in the Electoral College. This was the last election in which Republicans won Massachusetts and Rhode Island until 1952. The Republicans did so well that they carried New York City.
Al Smith

Smith c. 1920s

**In office**
January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928

**In office**
January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920

**In office**
January 1, 1917 – December 31, 1918

**In office**
January 1, 1916 – January 1, 1917

**In office**
January 1, 1904 – December 31, 1915

**Alfred Emanuel Smith** (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1928.

 State governors
2018 United States Senate elections

United States Senate

**November 6, 2018
November 27 (Mississippi runoff)**

← 2016
2020 →

## Overview

**Leader**
Mitch McConnell
Chuck Schumer

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**Seat**
Kentucky
New York

**Seats before**
51
47

**Seats after**
**53**
45

**Seat change**
+2
-2

**Popular vote**
34,687,875
**52,224,867**

**Percentage**
38.7%
**58.2%**

**Political party**
Independent

**Seats before**
2

**Seats after**
2

**Seat change**
0

**Popular vote**
808,370

**Percentage**
0.9%

## Results

Dark blue indicates Democratic gain, light blue indicates Democratic hold. Dark red indicates Republican gain, light red indicates Republican hold, Dark gray indicates Independent hold, Light gray indicates no election.

### Elected Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell
Republican
Mitch McConnell
Republican

The **2018 United States Senate elections** were held on November 6, 2018, for all 33 Class 1 Senate seats, plus 2 special elections (in Minnesota and Mississippi) for Class 2 Senate seats. They were the 52nd Senate elections after the ratification of the 17th Amendment (which allowed for Senators to be elected directly) and were concurrent to other federal and statewide elections, including the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections.

The standard for midterm elections is that the incumbent presidential party loses seats. However, even with Donald Trump, a Republican, in the White House, the party was only defending 9 of the 35 seats up in this election, and all but 3 of those seats were in states that Trump won by over 10% in the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, Democrats were defending 10 seats in states that Trump won in 2016, and another 4 seats in states that Hillary Clinton won by less then 10% in the 2016. Republicans defeated four incumbent Democrats, while Democrats defeated one Republican incumbent and won one open seat held by a retiring Republican, which netted to a two-seat gain for the Republicans. This would be the last election to date where Republicans won a Senate majority.
1904 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 8, 1904**

← 1900
1908 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Theodore Roosevelt**
Alton B. Parker

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
New York
New York

**Running mate**
**Charles W. Fairbanks**
Henry Gassaway Davis

**Electoral vote**
**336**
140

**Popular vote**
**7,630,457**
5,083,880

**Percentage**
**56.4%**
37.6%

**Nominee**
Eugene V. Debs
Silas C. Swallow

**Political party**
Socialist
Prohibition

**State**
Indiana
Pennsylvania

**Running mate**
Ben Hanford
George Washington Carroll

**Electoral vote**
0
0

**Popular vote**
402,810
259,102

**Percentage**
3.0%
1.9%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Roosevelt/Fairbanks and blue denotes those won by Parker/Davis

### Elected President

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

The **1904 United States presidential election** was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right. Nominees from the Socialist and Prohibition Parties also participated.

## Results

Roosevelt won a landslide victory, taking every Northern and Western state. He was the first Republican to carry the state of Missouri since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. Roosevelt won the election by more than 2.5 million popular votes, making him the first president to win a primarily two-man race by more than a million votes.

Parker carried 1,133 counties (41.14%) and won a majority in 1,057. The distribution of the vote by counties reveals him to have been a weaker candidate than William Jennings Bryan, the party's nominee four years earlier, in every section of the nation, except for the deep South, where Democratic dominance remained strong, due in large part to pervasive disfranchisement of African Americans.
1908 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 3, 1908**

← 1904
1912 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**William Howard Taft**
William Jennings Bryan

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Ohio
Nebraska

**Running mate**
**James S. Sherman**
John W. Kern

**Electoral vote**
**321**
162

**Popular vote**
**7,678,395**
6,408,984

**Percentage**
**51.6%**
43.1%

**Nominee**
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene W. Chafin

**Political party**
Socialist
Prohibition

**State**
Indiana
Illinois

**Running mate**
Ben Hanford
Aaron S. Watkins

**Electoral vote**
0
0

**Popular vote**
420,852
254,087

**Percentage**
2.8%
1.7%

Red denotes states won by Taft/Sherman and blue denotes those won by Bryan/Kern

The **1908 United States presidential election** was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Secretary of War and Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan, along with minor candidates Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party and Eugene W. Chafin of the Prohibition Party.

## Results

Forty-six states participated, as Oklahoma had joined the Union less than a year before.

The total vote increased greatly. The size of the vote cast for the defeated Bryan in 1908 is clear evidence of perhaps the most striking feature of the American presidential vote. In this third attempt at the presidency, and in an election following one in which the nominee of his party polled only five million votes, Bryan had heavy support in every section of the country, and in every state. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of the vote cast for Bryan was from the fifteen states of the (Northeastern) Mid-Atlantic, East North Central, and West North Central sections, in which the Democratic candidate carried only one state (Nebraska). Bryan was the fifth presidential nominee to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections.
1944 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 7, 1944**

← 1940
1948 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Franklin D. Roosevelt**
Thomas E. Dewey

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
New York
New York

**Running mate**
**Harry S. Truman**
John W. Bricker

**Electoral vote**
**432**
99

**Popular vote**
**25,612,916**
22,017,929

**Percentage**
**53.4%**
45.9%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Roosevelt/Truman and red denotes those won by Dewey/Bricker

### Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The **1944 United States presidential election** was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. Until 1996, this would be the last time in which an incumbent Democratic president would win re-election after serving a full term in office.

## Results

On Election Day, Roosevelt scored a fairly comfortable victory over Dewey. Roosevelt took 36 states for 432 electoral votes (266 were needed to win), while Dewey won twelve states and 99 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Roosevelt won 25,612,916 (53.4%) votes to Dewey's 22,017,929 (45.9%). Dewey conceded in a radio address the following morning, but declined personally calling or sending a telegram to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt sent Dewey a telegram reading, "I thank you for your statement, which I heard over the air a few minutes ago." Roosevelt's victory made him the only person ever to win the presidential popular vote four times, and neither party would win the popular vote four consecutive times until the Democrats did so in all four elections from 2008 to 2020.
Al Gore

Official portrait, 1994

**In office**
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001

**In office**
January 3, 1985 – January 2, 1993
Served with Jim Sasser

**In office**
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1985

**Albert Arnold Gore Jr.** (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992 and the pair were re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in a very close race after a Florida recount. After his term as vice president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist.
1936 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 3, 1936**

← 1932
1940 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Franklin D. Roosevelt**
Alf Landon

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
New York
Kansas

**Running mate**
**John Nance Garner**
Frank Knox

**Electoral vote**
**523**
8

**Popular vote**
**27,747,636**
16,679,543

**Percentage**
**60.8%**
36.5%

**Nominee**
William Lemke

**Political party**
Union

**State**
North Dakota

**Running mate**
Thomas C. O'Brien

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
892,378

**Percentage**
2.0%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Roosevelt/Garner and red denotes those won by Landon/Knox

### Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The **1936 United States presidential election** was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York won re-election against Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Roosevelt won the highest share of of the popular vote and electoral vote since James Monroe won the uncontested 1820 presidential election. The sweeping victory consolidated the New Deal Coalition.

## Results

Roosevelt won in a landslide, carrying 46 of the 48 states and bringing in many additional Democratic members of Congress. Roosevelt won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, and John Nance Garner won the highest percentage of the electoral vote of any vice president. Landon won only eight electoral votes, tying William Howard Taft's total in his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1912.

The election saw the consolidation of the New Deal coalition; while the Democrats lost some of their traditional allies in big business, high income voters, businessmen and professionals, they were replaced by groups such as organized labor and African Americans, the latter of whom voted Democratic for the first time since the Civil War, and made major gains among the poor and other minorities. Some political pundits predicted the Republicans, whom many voters blamed for the Great Depression, would soon become an extinct political party. However, the Republicans would make a strong comeback in 1938, and while they would remain a potent force in Congress, they were not able to regain control of the House or the Senate until 1946, and would not regain the presidency until 1952.
Alcee Hastings

**In office**
January 3, 1993 – April 6, 2021

**In office**
November 2, 1979 – October 20, 1989

**In office**
May 2, 1977 – October 31, 1979

**Alcee Lamar Hastings** (September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and judge from the state of Florida. He was the U.S. Representative for Florida's 23rd and 20th congressional districts from 1993 to 2013, and 2013 until is death in 2021, respectively. He was previously a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Jimmy Carter, from 1979 until his impeachment and conviction in 1989.
Alaskan Independence Party

Alaskan nationalism
Conservatism
Libertarian conservatism

The **Alaskan Independence Party** (**AKIP**) is a political party in Alaska that advocates for the state's independence from the United States. The party also advocates positions similar to those of the Republican Party and Libertarian Party, supporting gun rights, privatization, home schooling, and limited government.

The party's only electoral success was in the 1990 gubernatorial election, where the party elected Wally Hickel as Governor and Jack Coghill as Lieutenant Governor.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.akip.org/issues.html#2

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 Historical
Al Schmidt

Official portrait, 2023

## Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

**Assumed office**
January 17, 2023

**In office**
January 2, 2012 – January 2, 2022

**Albert Schmidt** (born c. 1972) is an American politician and election official who is the acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A member of the Republican Party, he was a city commissioner in Philadelphia from 2012 to 2022.
Alan Lowenthal

**In office**
January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2023

**In office**
December 6, 2004 – November 30, 2012

**In office**
December 7, 1998 – December 6, 2004

**Alan Stuart Lowenthal** (born March 8, 1941) is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for California's 47th congressional district from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the California State Assemblyman for the 54th district from 1998 to 2004 and California State Senator from the 27th district from 2004 to 2012.
Adlai Stevenson II

Stevenson in 1961

**In office**
January 23, 1961 – July 14, 1965

**In office**
January 10, 1949 – January 12, 1953

**Adlai Ewing Stevenson II** (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was the 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight Eisenhower. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd Vice President of the United States.
Adam Kinzinger

**In office**
January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2023

## Member of theMcLean County Board

**In office**
1998–2003

**Adam Daniel Kinzinger** (born February 27, 1978) is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 11th congressional district from 2011 to 2013. He is also a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard.
Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln in 1863

**In office**
March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865

**In office**
March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849

## Member of theIllinois House of Representativesfrom Sangamon County

**In office**
December 1, 1834 – December 4, 1842

**Abraham Lincoln** (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. He was the first Republican to be elected president.
1928 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 6, 1928**

← 1924
1932 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Herbert Hoover**
Al Smith

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
California
New York

**Running mate**
**Charles Curtis**
Joseph Taylor Robinson

**Electoral vote**
**444**
87

**Popular vote**
**21,427,123**
15,015,464

**Percentage**
**58.2%**
40.8%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Hoover/Curtis and blue denotes those won by Smith/Robinson

### Elected President

Calvin Coolidge
Republican
Herbert Hoover
Republican

The **1928 United States presidential election** was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of California defeated the Democratic Governor Al Smith of New York. Hoover was the last Republican to win a presidential election until 1952. This is the last time that the party of the incumbent President won without their nominee being the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President.

## Results

The total vote exceeded that of 1924 by nearly eight million. The greatest increases were in the heavily populated (Northeastern) Mid-Atlantic and East North Central states, where more than 4,250,000 more votes were cast, more than half of the nationwide increase. There was an increase of over a million each in New York and Pennsylvania. Hoover won 200 counties in the Southern United States while Smith won 122 traditionally Republican counties in the Northern United States, with 77 of those counties being majority Catholic. Smith was the first Democratic nominee in the 20th century to win a majority of the twelve largest cities in the country.

Hoover won the election by a wide margin on pledges to continue the economic boom of the Coolidge years. He received more votes than any previous candidate of the Republican Party in every state except five: Rhode Island, Iowa, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Hoover vote was greater than the Coolidge vote in 2,932 counties; it was less in 143 of the comparable counties. The 21,400,000 votes cast for Hoover also touched the high-water mark for all votes for a presidential candidate until then and were an increase of more than 5,500,000 over the Coolidge vote four years earlier.
1980 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 4, 1980**

← 1976
1984 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Ronald Reagan**
Jimmy Carter

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
California
Georgia

**Running mate**
**George H. W. Bush**
Walter Mondale

**Electoral vote**
**489**
49

**Popular vote**
**43,903,230**
35,480,115

**Percentage**
**50.7%**
41.0%

**Nominee**
John B. Anderson
Ed Clark

**Political party**
Independent
Libertarian

**State**
Illinois
California

**Running mate**
Patrick Lucey
David Koch

**Electoral vote**
0
0

**Popular vote**
5,719,850
921,128

**Percentage**
6.6%
1.1%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush and blue denotes those won by Carter/Mondale

### Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic
Ronald Reagan
Republican

The **1980 United States presidential election** was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in an electoral landslide victory. This was the second successive election in which the incumbent president was defeated, after Carter himself defeated Gerald Ford four years earlier in 1976. Additionally, it was only the second time, and the first in nearly 100 years that a Republican candidate defeated an incumbent Democrat. Due to the rise of conservatism following Reagan's victory, some historians consider the election to be a political realignment that marked the start of the Reagan Era.

## Results

Reagan beat Carter by almost 10 percentage points in the popular vote. Republicans also gained control of the Senate on Reagan's coattails for the first time since 1952. The Electoral College vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing six states and Washington, D.C.). Carter's loss was the worst performance by an incumbent president since Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by a margin of 18% in 1932, and his 49 electoral votes were the fewest won by an incumbent since William Howard Taft won only 8 in 1912. Carter was the first incumbent Democrat to serve only one full term since James Buchanan and also the first to serve one full term, seek re-election, and lose since Martin Van Buren.

Independent John B. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote but failed to win any state outright. He found the most support in New England, fueled by liberal and moderate Republicans who felt Reagan was too far to the right and with voters who normally leaned Democratic but were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration.

Libertarian Party candidate Ed Clark received 921,299 popular votes (1.06%). The Libertarians succeeded in getting Clark on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Clark's best showing was in Alaska, where he received 11.66% of the vote.
Adrian Fontes

Fontes in 2022

## 22nd Secretary of State of Arizona

**Assumed office**
January 2, 2023

**In office**
January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2021

**Adrian Fontes** (born 1969/1970) is an American politician, election official, veteran, and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the 22nd Secretary of State of Arizona, having been sworn in on January 2, 2023 after defeating Republican Nominee Mark Finchem in 2022. Fontes previously served as the Maricopa County Recorder from 2017 to 2021.
Brent Webster

## Attorney General of Texas

**In office**
May 27, 2023 – May 31, 2023
Served with Ken Paxton (suspended)

## First Assistant Attorney General of Texas

**Assumed office**
October 5, 2020

**Brent Webster** is an American lawyer who was the Acting Attorney General of Texas for three days from May 27, 2023, to May 31, 2023, following the impeachment and suspension of Ken Paxton from the office. Webster has been the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas since 2020.
Allen G. Thurman

**In office**
April 15, 1879 – December 5, 1880

**In office**
March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1881
Served with John Sherman, Stanley Matthews, and George H. Pendleton

**In office**
December 4, 1854 – February 9, 1856

**In office**
February 9, 1852 – December 4, 1854

**In office**
March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847

**Allen Granberry Thurman** (November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895) was an American politician and judge who served as a Democratic Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and Senator from Ohio. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1888 alongside incumbent President Grover Cleveland. The ticket lost the election.
Alma Adams

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom North Carolina's 12th district

**Assumed office**
November 4, 2014

**In office**
April 1994 – November 2014

## Member of theGreensboro City Council

**In office**
1987–1994

## Member of theGreensboro City School Board

**In office**
1984–1986

**Alma Shealey Adams** (born May 27, 1946) is an American politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Adams served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from April 1994 to November 2014.
1828 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**October 31 – December 2, 1828**

← 1824
1832 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Andrew Jackson**
John Quincy Adams

**Political party**
Democratic
National Republican

**State**
Tennessee
Massachusetts

**Running mate**
**John C. Calhoun**
Richard Rush

**Electoral vote**
**178**
83

**Popular vote**
**638,348**
507,440

**Percentage**
**55.5%**
44.0%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Jackson/Calhoun and light yellow denotes states won by Adams/Rush

### Elected President

John Quincy Adams
National Republican
Andrew Jackson
Democratic

The **1828 United States presidential election** was the 11th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a rematch of the 1824 election, as incumbent President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party lost re-election to Andrew Jackson of the Democratic Party. Both parties were new organizations, and this was the first presidential election their nominees contested. Jackson's victory over Adams marked the start of a realignment in federal politics.

## Results

The selection of electors began on October 31 with elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania and ended on November 13 with elections in North Carolina. The Electoral College met on December 3. Adams won the same states that his father had won in 1800 (the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware) and Maryland, but Jackson won all other states and won the election in a landslide.

This was the first election in American history in which the incumbent president lost re-election despite winning a greater share of the popular vote than they did the previous election; this would not happen again until 2020. This was the last election in which the Democrats won Kentucky until 1856. It is also the only election where Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Vermont voted for the National Republicans, and the last time that New Hampshire voted against the Democrats until 1856. It was also the only time Maine would split its electoral votes until 2016.

The Democratic Party in Georgia was heavily divided into two factions at the time. Despite this, both factions nominated Jackson for President, with the election being primarily a test of the strength of these two factions. Consequently, seven of the nine electors who voted for Jackson for president chose William Smith for vice president.
Abigail Spanberger

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom Virginia's 7th district

**Assumed office**
January 3, 2019

**Abigail Anne Spanberger** (née **Davis**; August 7, 1979) is an American politician and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer serving as the U.S. Representative from Virginia's 7th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2023, she announced her candidacy in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election.
1852 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2, 1852**

← 1848
1856 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Franklin Pierce**
Winfield Scott

**Political party**
Democratic
Whig

**State**
New Hampshire
New Jersey

**Running mate**
**William R. King**
William Alexander Graham

**Electoral vote**
**254**
42

**Popular vote**
**1,607,521**
1,386,943

**Percentage**
**50.8%**
43.9%

**Nominee**
John P. Hale

**Political party**
Free Soil

**State**
New Hampshire

**Running mate**
George Washington Julian

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
155,210

**Percentage**
4.9%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Pierce/King and yellow denotes those won by Scott/Graham

### Elected President

Millard Fillmore
Whig
Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The **1852 United States presidential election** was the 17th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1852. Democrat Franklin Pierce, a former Senator from New Hampshire, defeated Whig nominee Commanding General of the Army Winfield Scott and Free Soil nominee former Representative John P. Hale.

## Results

When American voters went to the polls, Pierce won the Electoral College in a landslide; Scott won only the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Vermont, while the Free Soil vote collapsed to less than half of what Martin Van Buren had earned in the previous election, with the party taking no states.

As a result of the devastating defeat and the growing tensions within the party between pro-slavery Southerners and anti-slavery Northerners, the Whig Party quickly fell apart after the 1852 election and ceased to exist. Some Southern Whigs would join the Democratic Party, and many Northern Whigs would help to form the new Republican Party in 1854.
1836 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 3 – December 7, 1836**

← 1832
1840 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Martin Van Buren**
William Henry Harrison

**Political party**
Democratic
Whig

**State**
New York
Ohio

**Running mate**
**Richard Mentor Johnson**
Francis Granger

**Electoral vote**
**170**
73

**Popular vote**
**764,176**
550,816

**Percentage**
**50.8%**
36.6%

**Nominee**
Hugh Lawson White
Daniel Webster

**Political party**
Whig
Whig

**State**
Tennessee
Massachusetts

**Running mate**
John Tyler
Francis Granger

**Electoral vote**
26
14

**Popular vote**
146,109
41,201

**Percentage**
9.7%
2.7%

**Nominee**
Willie Person Mangum

**Political party**
Whig

**State**
North Carolina

**Running mate**
John Tyler

**Electoral vote**
11

**Popular vote**
0

**Percentage**
0.0%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Van Buren/Johnson or Smith, light purple denotes those won by Harrison/Granger or Tyler, dark purple denotes those won by White/Tyler, pink denotes those won by Webster/Granger, and teal denotes those won by Mangum/Tyler

### Elected President

Andrew Jackson
Democratic
Martin Van Buren
Democratic

The **1836 United States presidential election** was the 13th quadrennial presidential election, held from Thursday, November 3 to Wednesday, December 7, 1836. In the third consecutive election victory for the Democratic Party, incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party.

## Results

### Electoral vote

The Whigs' strategy narrowly failed to prevent Van Buren's election as president, though he earned a somewhat lower share of the popular vote and fewer electoral votes than Andrew Jackson had in either of the previous two elections. The key state in this election was Pennsylvania, which Van Buren won from William Henry Harrison with a narrow majority of just 4,222 votes. Had Harrison won the state, Van Buren would have been left eight votes short of an Electoral College majority, despite receiving a majority (50.48%) in the popular vote, and the Whig goal to force the election into the House of Representatives for a contingent election would have succeeded.

### Contingent election

In an unusual turn of events, Virginia's 23 electors, who were all pledged to Van Buren and his running mate Richard Mentor Johnson, became faithless electors due to dissention related to Johnson's interracial relationship with a slave and refused to vote for Johnson, instead casting their vice presidential votes for former South Carolina Senator William Smith. This left Johnson one electoral vote short of an Electoral College majority, forcing a contingent election in the Senate decided between the top two vote recipients, Johnson and Francis Granger. Since no vice presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, for the first and, so far, only time in American history, the Senate decided a vice presidential race, selecting Democratic candidate Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky.

 Total
Alejandro Mayorkas

Official portrait, 2021

## 7th United States Secretary of Homeland Security

**Assumed office**
February 2, 2021

**In office**
December 23, 2013 – October 28, 2016

**In office**
August 12, 2009 – December 23, 2013

**In office**
December 21, 1998 – April 20, 2001

**Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas** (born November 24, 1959) is a Cuban-American government official and attorney who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2, 2021 in the Biden administration. During the Obama administration, he also served in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), first as Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, and then as Deputy DHS Secretary from 2013 to 2016.
Alaska

**State of Alaska**

Flag

Seal

Alaska highlighted in red

**Alaska** is a state in the United States of America. It is bordered by the Canadian province of British Columbia to the southeast, the Canadian territory of Yukon to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south and west, sharing a maritime border with the Russian autonomous okrug of Chukotka.

 Judicial
Adam Gregg

## 47th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

**Assumed office**
May 25, 2017
Acting: May 25, 2017 – January 18, 2019

**In office**
December 8, 2014 – May 25, 2017

**Adam Gregg** (born April 26, 1983) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. He held this position in an acting capacity from 2017 to 2019, and has held it formally ever since. A member of the Republican Party, Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
1884 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 4, 1884**

← 1880
1888 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Grover Cleveland**
James G. Blaine

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
New York
Maine

**Running mate**
**Thomas A. Hendricks**
John A. Logan

**Electoral vote**
**219**
182

**Popular vote**
**4,914,482**
4,856,905

**Percentage**
**48.9%**
48.3%

**Nominee**
John St. John
Benjamin Butler

**Political party**
Prohibition
Greenback

**State**
Kansas
Massachusetts

**Running mate**
William Daniel
Absolom M. West

**Electoral vote**
0
0

**Popular vote**
147,482
134,294

**Percentage**
1.5%
1.3%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Cleveland/Hendricks and red denotes those won by Blaine/Logan

### Elected President

Chester A. Arthur
Republican
Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The **1884 United States presidential election** was the 25th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884. It saw the first election of a Democrat as President of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856 and the first Democratic president since the American Civil War. Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine, along with third party candidates John St. John of the Prohibition Party and Benjamin Butler of the Greenback Party. The election was set apart by unpleasant mudslinging and shameful allegations that eclipsed substantive issues, for example, civil administration change.

## Results

While the results remained broadly the same as those from 1880, Cleveland won three states (New York, Indiana, and Connecticut) that James A. Garfield had won, while Blaine won two states (California and Nevada) that Winfield Scott Hancock had won. But most of those states had relatively small numbers of electoral votes, and Cleveland's victory in New York was decisive. Cleveland won by a slightly larger margin than Garfield (0.6% compared to 0.11%) in the popular vote, but a slightly smaller margin in the Electoral College (29 votes to 59).

The result marked an electoral breakthrough for the Prohibition Party, who had been little more than a fringe party in the previous three elections. While they never seriously challenged for the presidency and had only limited success in congressional and state-level elections, they regularly earned at least a percentage point of the popular vote (and occasionally finished third in that vote) in presidential elections for the next three decades before declining back to fringe status after the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. By contrast, Butler earned less than half the popular vote share that James B. Weaver had won in 1880, accelerating the decline of the Greenback Party. This was the last presidential election the party contested.
1900 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 6, 1900**

← 1896
1904 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**William McKinley**
William Jennings Bryan

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Ohio
Nebraska

**Running mate**
**Theodore Roosevelt**
Adlai Stevenson I

**Electoral vote**
**292**
155

**Popular vote**
**7,228,864**
6,370,932

**Percentage**
**51.6%**
45.5%

**Nominee**
John G. Woolley

**Political party**
Prohibition

**State**
Illinois

**Running mate**
Henry B. Metcalf

**Electoral vote**
0

**Percentage**
1.5%

## Results

Red denotes states won by McKinley/Roosevelt and blue denotes those won by Bryan/Stevenson

### Elected President

William McKinley
Republican
William McKinley
Republican

The **1900 United States presidential election** was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, incumbent Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. McKinley's victory made him the first president to win a consecutive re-election since Ulysses S. Grant had in 1872. Third party candidate John G. Woolley of the Prohibition Party only garnered just over 1.5% of the vote.

## Results

Theodore Roosevelt, the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, attracted unusual attention in the campaign, and it has been commonly asserted that he brought a considerable number of votes to the Republican ticket. McKinley polled roughly 7,200,000 votes. He carried 28 states with a combined 292 electoral votes (65.32%). He slightly increased his national percentage (51.60%) with 120,000 more votes than in 1896. This change is reflected in the gains made in number of counties carried; McKinley had 222 more counties than he had carried in 1896, thus gaining a slight majority of the total number of counties making returns.

A notable feature was the Bryan gains made in the New England and (Northeastern) Mid-Atlantic sections, with also a slight gain in the East North Central section. Bryan even managed to win New York City by almost 30,000 votes when he had lost it by more than 60,000 votes just four years earlier. In all other sections, Bryan's vote was less than in 1896, and in the nation his total vote was 23,000 less than in 1896. The percentage of total was 45.52, a slight loss. Kentucky, which he carried this time, showed an increase of 17,005. In 16 states, the Democratic vote increased, but in 29 states it was less than in 1896. Bryan carried only 17 states. This was the only one of his three runs in which he failed to carry his home state of Nebraska.

This would be the last election in 100 years when the Republican candidate would win without earning a minimum of 300 electoral votes. That did not occur again until George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore in 2000.