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1880 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2, 1880**

← 1876
1884 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**James A. Garfield**
Winfield Scott Hancock

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Ohio
Pennsylvania

**Running mate**
**Chester A. Arthur**
William Hayden English

**Electoral vote**
**214**
184

**Popular vote**
**4,446,158**
4,444,260

**Percentage**
**48.3%**
48.2%

**Nominee**
James B. Weaver

**Political party**
Greenback

**State**
Iowa

**Running mate**
Barzillai J. Chambers

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
308,649

**Percentage**
3.3%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Garfield/Arthur and blue denotes those won by Hancock/English

### Elected President

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican
James A. Garfield
Republican

The **1880 United States presidential election** was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880. Incumbent President Rutherford B. Hayes did not seek re-election. After the longest convention in the party's history, the divided Republicans chose another Ohioan, Representative James A. Garfield, as their nominee, while the Democratic Party chose General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania as theirs. The third party Greenbacks nominated James B. Weaver. Garfield defeated Hancock in the election.

## Results

The extremely close election, with very high turnout, reflected the typical pattern of the Gilded Age. Democrats were assured of a Solid South electoral vote, as well as most of the border states. Republicans captured the Northeast and Midwest, winning the critical swing states of New York, Ohio and Indiana. The Republicans captured the electoral vote 214–155, but the popular vote margin was under 2,000 out of over 9 million votes cast. The voters showed their interest in the election by turning out in record numbers; 78 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot, among largest percentages in American history. Each major party candidate earned just over 48 percent of the vote. Weaver won more than 3 percent.

The sectional divide of the vote more deeply enforced the Republicans' retreat from the South after Reconstruction, and demonstrated that they could win without competing there. Weaver's resistance to fusion had no effect on the result; the combined Democratic and Greenback vote would have carried Indiana, but not any other of the states Garfield won, and the result would still have been a Republican majority in the Electoral College. Hancock was convinced that the Republicans won New York by fraud. Lacking evidence, and mindful of the turmoil caused by the disputed election four years earlier, the Democrats did not pursue the matter.
Alson Streeter

**In office**
1885–1888

## Acting

**In office**
1884

## Member of theIllinois House of Representativesfrom the 22nd district

**In office**
1873–1874

**Alson Jenness Streeter** (January 18, 1823 – November 24, 1901) was an American farmer, miner and politician who was the Union Labor Party nominee in the 1888 United States presidential election. He was also an early member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry following its foundation in the 1860s. He briefly served as acting chair of the Anti-Monopoly Party in 1884.
Adam Schiff

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom California

**Assumed office**
January 3, 2001

**In office**
December 2, 1996 – November 30, 2000

**In office**
1987–1993

**Adam Bennett Schiff** (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who has served as a U.S. Representative from California since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented California's 30th congressional district since 2023, previously representing California's 27th congressional district from 2001 to 2003, California's 28th congressional district from 2003 to 2013, and California's 28th congressional district from 2013 to 2023.

In June 2023, Schiff was censured by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for alleged "falsehoods, misrepresentations and abuses of sensitive information" by Schiff regarding the 2016 United States presidential election and the first impeachment of Donald Trump.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-schiff-censure-resolution-vote-house/
2004 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2, 2004**

← 2000
2008 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**George W. Bush**
John Kerry

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Texas
Massachusetts

**Running mate**
**Dick Cheney**
John Edwards

**Electoral vote**
**286**
251

**Popular vote**
**62,040,610**
59,028,444

**Percentage**
**50.7%**
48.3%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney and blue denotes those won by Kerry/Edwards; light blue indicates a Minnesota faithless elector's vote for Edwards

### Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican
George W. Bush
Republican

The **2004 United States presidential election** was the 55th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. The Republican ticket of incumbent President George W. Bush defeated the Democratic ticket of John Kerry, a United States Senator from Massachusetts. The election took place following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, marking the start of the War on Terror. It was also the most recent presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote.

## Results

During the campaign and as the results came in on the night of the election there was much focus on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. These three swing states were seen as evenly divided, and with each casting 20 electoral votes or more, they had the power to decide the election. As the final results came in, Kerry took Pennsylvania and then Bush took Florida, focusing all attention on Ohio.

The morning after the election, the major candidates were neck and neck. It was clear that the result in Ohio, along with two other states who had still not declared (New Mexico and Iowa), would decide the winner. Bush had established a lead of around 130,000 votes but the Democrats pointed to provisional ballots that had yet to be counted, initially reported to number as high as 200,000. Bush had preliminary leads of less than 5% of the vote in only four states, but if Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico had all eventually gone to Kerry, a win for Bush in Ohio would have created a 269–269 tie in the Electoral College. The result of an electoral tie would cause the election to be decided in the House of Representatives. In the afternoon of the day after the election, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, announced that it was statistically impossible for the Democrats to make up enough valid votes in the provisional ballots to win. At the time provisional ballots were reported as numbering 140,000 (and later estimated to be only 135,000). Faced with this announcement, Kerry conceded defeat.

When the Electoral College met, an anonymous faithless elector in Minnesota voted for "John Ewards" for president, which officials counted as a vote for John Edwards, Kerry's running mate.
Alton B. Parker

Parker in 1906

**In office**
January 1, 1898 – August 5, 1904

## Judge of the Second Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Department

**In office**
1887–1897

## Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court

**In office**
1885–1887

**Alton Brooks Parker** (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge. He is best known as the Democrat who lost the 1904 to Theodore Roosevelt. He served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1898 to 1904.
1868 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 3, 1868**

← 1864
1872 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Ulysses S. Grant**
Horatio Seymour

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Illinois
New York

**Running mate**
**Schuyler Colfax**
Francis Preston Blair Jr.

**Electoral vote**
**214**
80

**Popular vote**
**3,013,421**
2,706,829

**Percentage**
**52.7%**
47.3%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Grant/Colfax and blue denotes those won by Seymour/Blair

### Elected President

Andrew Johnson
Democratic
Ulysses S. Grant
Republican

The **1868 United States presidential election** was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour of the Democratic Party. It was the first presidential election to take place after the conclusion of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. It was the first election in which African Americans could vote in the reconstructed Southern states, in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act.

## Results

The closeness of the popular vote surprised the political elite at the time. Republican Representative James G. Blaine called the slender popular majority for Grant "a very startling fact." Blaine, an acute judge of popular sentiment, was at a loss to explain the size of the Democratic vote. Ethnic Irish Catholic and other immigrants had been settling in New York for nearly a quarter century. The narrow margins by which Seymour lost several of the northern states like Indiana, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and the effects of new black votes in the South provoked the suspicion that a majority of white men voted for Seymour. Democrats did not fare well in most of the South, where newly freed African Americans voted in large numbers for Grant. Republicans carried every southern state except Georgia and Louisiana.

Along the border, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware went overwhelmingly Democratic, in Kentucky's case influenced by hostility toward the Radical Reconstructionists, which had led to the state's first postwar government being almost entirely composed of former Confederates. Two border states, Missouri and West Virginia, both under Republican control, gave their electoral votes to Grant. Seymour narrowly carried his home state of New York, but Blair, largely because of the Radicals' registry system, failed to carry Missouri. In West Virginia, former Confederates were temporarily forbidden from voting or holding public office. About 15,000 to 25,000 white residents were disfranchised as a result.

This was the last election in which the Republicans won Tennessee until 1920, the last in which the Democrats won Oregon until 1912, and the last in which the Republicans won Missouri until 1904.
Alben W. Barkley

**In office**
January 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953

**In office**
January 3, 1955 – April 30, 1956
Served with Earle Clements

**In office**
March 4, 1927 – January 19, 1949
Served with Frederic M. Sackett, John M. Robsion, Ben M. Williamson, M. M. Logan, Happy Chandler, William A. Stanfill, John Sherman Cooper, and Virgil Chapman

## Senate Minority Leader

**In office**
January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949

## Senate Majority Leader

**In office**
July 14, 1937 – January 3, 1947

### Whip

J. Hamilton Lewis
Sherman Minton
J. Lister Hill

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom Kentucky's 1st district

**In office**
March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1927

## Personal details

### Spouse(s)

Dorothy Brower
Jane Rucker Hadley

### Parents

John Wilson Barkley
Electa Eliza Smith

### Education

Marvin College
Emory University
University of Virginia

**Alben William Barkley** (November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of the United States Congress and as the 35th Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953. In 1905, he was elected county attorney for McCracken County, Kentucky. He was elected County Judge/Executive in 1909 and U.S. representative from Kentucky's 1st congressional district in 1912. As a Representative, he was a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy.
Alvin Jaeger

Jaeger in 2017

**In office**
January 1, 1993 – January 1, 2023

**Alvin A. Jaeger** (born December 10, 1943) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 14th Secretary of State of North Dakota for thirty years from 1993 to 2023. Jaeger was elected to the office in 1992, and re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018. He ran as an independent in the 2018 secretary of state election.
1804 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2 – December 5, 1804**

← 1800
1808 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Thomas Jefferson**
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

**Political party**
Democratic-Republican
Federalist

**State**
Virginia
South Carolina

**Running mate**
**George Clinton**
Rufus King

**Electoral vote**
**162**
14

**Popular vote**
**104,110**
38,919

**Percentage**
**72.8%**
27.2%

## Results

Green denotes states won by Jefferson/Clinton and orange denotes states won by Pinckney/King

### Elected President

Thomas Jefferson
Democratic-Republican
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic-Republican

The **1804 United States presidential election** was the fifth quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1804. Incumbent Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia defeated Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. It was the first presidential election conducted following the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reformed procedures for electing presidents and vice presidents.

## Results

Jefferson's victory was overwhelming, and he even won four of the five New England states. Pinckney won only two states, Connecticut and Delaware. This was the first election where the Democratic-Republicans won in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
1920 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2, 1920**

← 1916
1924 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Warren G. Harding**
James M. Cox

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Ohio
Ohio

**Running mate**
**Calvin Coolidge**
Franklin D. Roosevelt

**Electoral vote**
**404**
127

**Popular vote**
**16,144,093**
9,139,661

**Percentage**
**60.4%**
34.2%

**Nominee**
Eugene V. Debs

**Political party**
Socialist

**State**
Indiana

**Running mate**
Seymour Stedman

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
913,693

**Percentage**
3.4%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Harding/Coolidge and blue denotes those won by Cox/Roosevelt

### Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Warren G. Harding
Republican

The **1920 United States presidential election** was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920. In the first election held after the end of World War I and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Socialist Eugene V. Debs of Indiana.

## Results

The total vote for 1920 was roughly 26,750,000, an increase of eight million from 1916. Harding won in all twelve cities with populations above 500,000. Harding won a net vote total of 1,540,000 from the twelve largest cities which was the highest amount for any Republican and fifth highest for any candidate from 1920 to 1948. The Democratic vote was almost exactly the vote from 1916, but the Republican vote nearly doubled. The great increase in the total number of votes is mainly attributable to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
Alfred C. Harmer

**In office**
March 4, 1897 – March 6, 1900
Served with Thomas Brackett Reed

**In office**
March 4, 1877 – March 6, 1900

**In office**
March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875

## Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia

**In office**
1860–1863

## Member of thePhiladelphia City Council

**In office**
1856–1860

**Alfred Crout Harmer** (August 8, 1825 – March 6, 1900) was an American businessman and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, representing its 5th district from 1871 to 1875 and again from 1877 until his death in 1900.
A Connecticut Party

Social liberalism

The **A Connecticut Party** was a state political party founded in Connecticut by former Republican Senator Lowell Weicker for his 1990 gubernatorial campaign. He was subsequently elected and served a single term as governor.

The party was a center-left party that supported social liberalism. It was named as such so that its candidates would appear first on the ballot.

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 Minor parties
 Historical
 State, territorial, and local parties
 Historical
1840 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**October 30 – December 2, 1840**

← 1836
1844 →

## Overview

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

**Political party**
Whig
Democratic

**State**
Ohio
New York

**Running mate**
**John Tyler**
*None*

**Electoral vote**
**234**
60

**Popular vote**
**1,275,390**
1,128,854

**Percentage**
**52.9%**
46.8%

## Results

Yellow denotes states won by Harrison/Tyler and blue denotes those won by Van Buren

### Elected President

Martin Van Buren
Democratic
William Henry Harrison
Whig

The **1840 United States presidential election** was the 14th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 30 to Wednesday, December 2, 1840. Economic recovery from the Panic of 1837 was incomplete, and Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories in presidential elections.

## Results

Harrison won the support of western settlers and eastern bankers alike. The extent of Van Buren's unpopularity was evident in Harrison's victories in New York, the president's home state, and in Tennessee, where Andrew Jackson himself had come out of retirement to stump for his former vice president.

Few Americans were surprised when Van Buren lost in the electoral vote by 234 to 60, but many were amazed by the closeness of the popular vote: of 2.41 million votes cast, Van Buren lost by only 146,500, and a shift of 20,000 votes to Van Buren in Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania would have left the electoral college in a 147–147 tie, forcing a contingent election in the House of Representatives. This was the first time a Democratic president lost re-election, as well as the first time that a Democratic president lost re-election and lost the popular vote.

Harrison's victory won him precious little time as chief executive of the United States. After giving the longest inauguration speech in U.S. history (lasting about 1 hour and 45 minutes, in cold weather and rain), Harrison served only one month as president before dying of pneumonia on April 4, 1841. This was also the first election in U.S. history in which a candidate won more than a million popular votes.
1956 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 6, 1956**

← 1952
1960 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Dwight D. Eisenhower**
Adlai Stevenson II

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
New York
Illinois

**Running mate**
**Richard Nixon**
Estes Kefauver

**Electoral vote**
**457**
73

**Popular vote**
**35,579,180**
26,028,028

**Percentage**
**57.4%**
42.0%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Eisenhower/Nixon and blue denotes those won by Stevenson/Kefauver; orange denotes one faithless elector's vote for Walter B. Jones for President and Herman Talmadge for Vice President

### Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The **1956 United States presidential election** was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for re-election against Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, the former Illinois governor whom he had defeated four years earlier.

## Results

On Election Day Eisenhower took over 57% of the popular vote and won 41 of the 48 states. Stevenson won only six Southern states and the border state of Missouri, becoming the first losing candidate since William Jennings Bryan in 1900 to carry Missouri. Eisenhower carried Louisiana, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the state, or any state in the Deep South for that matter, since Rutherford B. Hayes had done so in 1876 during Reconstruction, Eisenhower was the first Republican to win re-election to the presidency since William McKinley.
Al Lawson

**In office**
January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2023

**In office**
November 7, 2000 – November 2, 2010

**In office**
November 7, 1982 – November 7, 2000

**Alfred James Lawson Jr.** (born September 23, 1948) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Florida's 5th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A Democrat, Lawson served in the Florida Legislature for 28 years. From 1982 to 2000, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives. From 2000 to 2010, Lawson was a member of the Florida Senate.
Alan Simpson

Simpson in 2010

**In office**
February 18, 2010 – December 1, 2010
Served with Erskine Bowles

**In office**
January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995

**In office**
January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987

**In office**
January 1, 1979 – January 3, 1997
Served with Malcolm Wallop and Craig L. Thomas

## Member of theWyoming House of Representativesfrom Park County

**In office**
January 1965 – January 1977

**Alan Kooi Simpson** (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1997. He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.
Alf Landon

Landon, c. 1936

**In office**
January 9, 1933 – January 11, 1937

**In office**
August 27, 1928 – August 26, 1930

**Alfred Mossman Landon** (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Albert Bryan

## 9th Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands

**Assumed office**
January 7, 2019

**In office**
2007–2015

**Albert Bryan Jr.** (born February 21, 1968) is an American Virgin Islander politician who is the ninth elected Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, since 2019. He was Commissioner of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Labor from 2007 to 2015. Bryan is a member of the Democratic Party.
Alex Mooney

Official portrait, 2019

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom West Virginia's 2nd district

**Assumed office**
January 3, 2015

**In office**
December 11, 2010 – March 1, 2013

**In office**
January 13, 1999 – January 12, 2011

**Alexander Xavier Mooney** (born June 7, 1971) is an American politician serving since 2015 as the U.S. Representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 3rd district in the Maryland Senate from 1999 to 2011, and chaired the GOP in Maryland from 1990 to 1994. He is the first Hispanic person elected to Congress from West Virginia.
2012 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 6, 2012**

← 2008
2016 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Barack Obama**
Mitt Romney

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
Illinois
Massachusetts

**Running mate**
**Joe Biden**
Paul Ryan

**Electoral vote**
**332**
206

**Popular vote**
**65,915,795**
60,933,504

**Percentage**
**51.1%**
47.2%

Blue denotes states won by Obama/Biden and red denotes those won by Romney/Ryan

The **2012 United States presidential election** was the 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama defeated former Republican Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney.

## Results

Obama's victory over Romney was 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. Romney lost all but one of nine battleground states, and received 47 percent of the nationwide popular vote to Obama's 51 percent. After the networks called Ohio (the state that was arguably the most critical for Romney), for Obama at around 11:15 PM EST on Election Day, Romney was ready to concede the race, but hesitated when Karl Rove strenuously objected on Fox News to the network's decision to make that call. However, after Colorado and Nevada were called for the President (giving Obama enough electoral votes to win even if Ohio were to leave his column), in tandem with Obama's apparent lead in Florida and Virginia (both were eventually called for Obama), Romney acknowledged that he had lost and conceded at around 1:00 AM EST on November 7.

Combined with the re-elections of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Obama's victory in 2012 marked only the second time in American history that three consecutive presidents were each elected to two or more full terms after the consecutive two-term presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe ending in 1820, which is the only other time any two-term president succeeded another. This was also the first election since 1944 in which neither of the major candidates had any military experience. This election also marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that a Democratic presidential candidate won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. Obama was also the first president of either major party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.

Romney lost his home state of Massachusetts, becoming the first major party presidential candidate to lose his home state since Democrat Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee to Republican George W. Bush in 2000. Romney lost his home state by more than 23%, the worst losing margin for a major party candidate since John C. Frémont in 1856. Even worse than Frémont, Romney failed to win a single county in his home state, something last seen by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. This was the first a Republican lost his home state since Richard Nixon in 1968.
Alabama Territory's at-large congressional district

**Alabama Territory's at-large congressional district** was a congressional district that represented Alabama Territory at-large in the United States House of Representatives from January 1818 until it gained statehood as Alabama in 1819. The representative was a non-voting delegate in Congress. The only delegate to represent the district was Democratic-Republican John Crowell.

## United States Delegates from Alabama Territory's at-large congressional district

 John Crowell | January 29, 1818–March 3, 1819

 Judicial
2016 United States Senate elections

United States Senate

**November 8, 2016
November 10 (Louisiana runoff)**

← 2014
2018 →

## Overview

**Leader**
Mitch McConnell
Harry Reid

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**Seat**
Kentucky
Nevada

**Seats before**
54
44

**Seats after**
**52**
46

**Seat change**
-2
+2

**Popular vote**
40,841,717
**51,315,969**

**Percentage**
42.2%
**53.0%**

**Political party**
Independent

**Seats before**
2

**Seats after**
2

**Seat change**
0

**Popular vote**
626,763

**Percentage**
0.6%

## Results

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

### Elected Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell
Republican
Mitch McConnell
Republican

The **2016 United States Senate elections** were held on November 8, 2016. The presidential election, House elections, 14 gubernatorial elections, and many state and local elections were held on the same date.

In the elections, 34 of the 100 seats—all Class 3 Senate seats—were contested in regular elections; the winners will serve six-year terms until January 3, 2023. Class 3 was last up for election in 2010, when Republicans won a net gain of six seats.
1976 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 2, 1976**

← 1972
1980 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Jimmy Carter**
Gerald Ford

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
Georgia
Michigan

**Running mate**
**Walter Mondale**
Bob Dole

**Electoral vote**
**297**
240

**Popular vote**
**40,831,881**
39,148,634

**Percentage**
**50.1%**
48.0%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Carter/Mondale and red denotes those won by Ford/Dole; pink denotes a faithless elector from Washington's electoral vote for Ronald Reagan for President

### Elected President

Gerald Ford
Republican
Jimmy Carter
Democratic

The **1976 United States presidential election** was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan. Carter's win represented the lone Democratic victory in a period of Republican dominance at the presidential level; he was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1964 and the last until 1992.

## Results

Carter was the first Democrat since John F. Kennedy in 1960 to carry the states of the Deep South, and the first since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to carry a majority of all southern states. Carter performed very strongly in his home state of Georgia, carrying 66.7% of the vote and every county in the state. His winning of 23 states was only the first time since the 1960 election, and the second time in history, that the winner of the election won fewer than half the states. His 50.1% of the vote was the only time since 1964 that a Democrat managed to obtain an absolute majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until Barack Obama won 52.9% of the vote in 2008.

The electoral vote was the closest since 1916; Carter carried 23 states, with 297 electoral votes, while Ford won 27 states, with 240 electoral votes (one elector, future state senator Mike Padden from Washington, pledged to Ford, voted for former Governor of California and future president Ronald Reagan). Carter's victory came primarily from his near-sweep of the South (he lost only Virginia and Oklahoma), and his narrow victories in large Northern states such as New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Ford did well in the West, carrying every state in that region, except for Hawaii. The most tightly contested state in the election was Oregon, which Ford won by under 2,000 votes.
Aaron Burr

Portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1802

**In office**
March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805

**In office**
March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1797
Served with Rufus King and John Laurance

**In office**
September 29, 1789 – November 8, 1791

**Aaron Burr Jr.** (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the third Vice President of the United States during President Thomas Jefferson's first term from 1801 to 1805. Burr's legacy is defined by his famous personal conflict with Alexander Hamilton that culminated in Burr killing Hamilton in the famous Burr–Hamilton duel in 1804.

 State attorneys general
1820 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 1 – December 6, 1820**

← 1816
1824 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**James Monroe**

**Political party**
Democratic-Republican

**State**
Virginia

**Running mate**
**Daniel D. Tompkins**

**Electoral vote**
**231**

**Popular vote**
**87,343**

**Percentage**
**80.6%**

## Results

Green denotes states won by Monroe/Tompkins and light green denotes a faithless New Hampshire elector's vote for John Quincy Adams

### Elected President

James Monroe
Democratic-Republican
James Monroe
Democratic-Republican

The **1820 United States presidential election** was the ninth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Wednesday, November 1, to Wednesday, December 6, 1820. Taking place at the height of the Era of Good Feelings, the election saw incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Monroe win re-election without a major opponent. It was the third and last United States presidential election in which a presidential candidate ran effectively unopposed. It was also the last election of a president from the revolutionary generation.

## Results

The Federalists received a small amount of the popular vote despite having no electoral candidates. Even in Massachusetts, where the Federalist slate of electors was victorious, the electors cast all of their votes for Monroe. This was the first election in which the Democratic-Republicans won in Connecticut and Delaware.

The sole electoral vote against Monroe came from William Plumer, a faithless elector from New Hampshire and former United States Senator and New Hampshire governor. Plumer cast his electoral ballot for Secretary of State John Quincy Adams for president, and . Plumer also refused to vote for Tompkins for vice president and Minister to the United Kingdom Richard Rush for vice president.

Even though every member of the Electoral College was pledged to Monroe, there were still a number of Federalist electors who voted for a Federalist vice president rather than Monroe's running mate Daniel D. Tompkins. However, this was not enough to deny Tompkins a substantial Electoral College victory.
Adrian Smith

## Member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom Nebraska's 3rd district

**Assumed office**
January 3, 2007

**In office**
January 1999 – January 2007

## Member of theGering City Council

**In office**
1994–1998

**Adrian Michael Smith** (born December 19, 1970) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 48th district in the Nebraska Legislature from 1999 to 2007.
American Independent Party

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Traditional conservatism
Nationalism
Christian democracy
Regionalism

The **American Independent Party** (**AIP**) is a minor political party in the United States that was established in 1967. The AIP is best known for its nomination of former Democratic Governor George Wallace of Alabama, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a segregationist "law and order" platform against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. The modern AIP supports traditional conservative values, nationalism, Christian ethics, and regionalism.

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1844 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 1 – December 4, 1844**

← 1840
1848 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**James K. Polk**
Henry Clay

**Political party**
Democratic
Whig

**State**
Tennessee
Kentucky

**Running mate**
**George M. Dallas**
Theodore Frelinghuysen

**Electoral vote**
**170**
105

**Popular vote**
**1,339,494**
1,300,004

**Percentage**
**49.5%**
48.1%

**Nominee**
James G. Birney

**Political party**
Liberty

**State**
Michigan

**Running mate**
Thomas Morris

**Electoral vote**
0

**Popular vote**
62,103

**Percentage**
2.3%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Polk/Dallas and yellow denotes those won by Clay/Frelinghuysen

### Elected President

John Tyler
Independent
James K. Polk
Democratic

The **1844 United States presidential election** was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 4, 1844. Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest turning on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas. Former slaveholder turned abolitionist James G. Birney of the Liberty Party also played a role in the final vote.

## Results

Polk's adoption of Manifest Destiny paid dividends at the polls. The Democrats enjoyed a huge upsurge in voter turnout, up to 20% over the figures from 1840, especially in the Northwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. The Whigs showed only a 4% increase. The Democrats won Michigan, Illinois and Indiana and nearly took Ohio, where the concept of Manifest Destiny was most admired. In the Deep South, Clay lost every state to Polk, a huge reversal from the 1840 race, but carried most of the Middle and Border South.

Celebratory shots rang out in Washington on November 7 as returns came in from western New York which clinched the state and the presidency for Polk. Polk won by a mere 5,106 out of 470,062 cast in New York, and only 3,422 out of 52,096 votes in Michigan. Had enough of these voting blocks cast their ballots for the anti-annexationist Clay in either state, he would have defeated Polk. Still, Clay's opposition to annexation and western slavery expansion served him well among Northern Whigs and nearly secured him the election.
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Alan Cranston

**In office**
January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1991

**In office**
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981

**In office**
January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1987

## United States Senatorfrom California

**In office**
January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1993
Served with George Murphy, John V. Tunney, S. I. Hayakawa, Pete Wilson, John F. Seymour, and Dianne Feinstein

## 25th Controller of California

**In office**
January 5, 1959 – January 2, 1967

## Personal details

### Spouse(s)

Geneva McMath
Norma Weintraub

### Parents

William MacGregor Cranston
Carol Dixon

## Military service

### Battles/wars

World War II

**Alan MacGregor Cranston** (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993 and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952.
Albert B. Cummins

**In office**
May 19, 1919 – March 6, 1925

## United States Senatorfrom Iowa

**In office**
November 24, 1908 – July 30, 1926
Served with Jonathan P. Dolliver, Lafayette Young, William S. Kenyon, Charles A. Rawson, Smith W. Brookhart, and Daniel F. Steck

## 18th Governor of Iowa

**In office**
January 16, 1902 – November 24, 1908

### Lt. Governor

John Herriott
Warren Garst

## Member of theIowa House of Representativesfrom Polk County

**In office**
January 9, 1888 – January 12, 1890

## Member of theIowa Senate

**In office**
1887

## Personal details

### Parents

Thomas L. Cummins
Sarah Baird Flenniken

**Albert Baird Cummins** (February 15, 1850 – July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th Governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms, and a United States Senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. He also served in both chambers of the Iowa General Assembly.
1796 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 4 – December 7, 1796**

← 1792
1800 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**John Adams**
Thomas Jefferson

**Political party**
Federalist
Democratic-Republican

**State**
Massachusetts
Virginia

**Electoral vote**
**71**
68

**Popular vote**
**35,726**
31,115

**Percentage**
**53.4%**
46.6%

**Nominee**
Thomas Pinckney

**Political party**
Federalist

**State**
South Carolina

**Electoral vote**
59

**Popular vote**
0

**Percentage**
0.0%

Orange denotes states won by Adams and green denotes states won by Jefferson

The **1796 United States presidential election** was the third quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796. It was the first contested American presidential election, the first presidential election in which political parties played a dominant role, and the only presidential election in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets. Incumbent Vice President John Adams of the Federalist Party defeated former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party. Jefferson became vice president after a close race with Thomas Pinckney, a Federalist who served as President Washington's Minister to Great Britain.

## Results

Under the system in place before the 1804 ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, electors were to cast votes for two persons for president; the runner-up in the presidential race was elected vice president. Each party intended to manipulate the results by having some of their electors cast one vote for the intended presidential candidate and one vote for someone besides the intended vice presidential candidate, leaving their vice presidential candidate a few votes shy of their presidential candidate. But all electoral votes were cast on the same day, and communications between states were extremely slow at that time, making it very difficult to coordinate which electors were to manipulate their vote for vice president. Additionally, there were rumors that Alexander Hamilton had coerced southern electors pledged to Jefferson to give their second vote to Pinckney in hope of electing him president instead of Adams.

The result was that Adams received 71 electoral votes, one more than required to be elected president. If any two of the three Adams electors in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina had voted with the rest of their states, it would have flipped the election. Jefferson received 68 votes, nine more than Pinckney, and was elected vice president. Ten other candidates received the remaining 78 electoral votes. If Pinckney had won the second votes of all of the New England electors who voted for Adams, he would have been elected president over Adams and Jefferson.
Alondra Nelson

## Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

**In office**
February 18, 2022 – October 3, 2022

**In office**
January 20, 2021 – February 17, 2023

**Alondra Nelson** (born April 22, 1968) is an American policymaker, writer, and academic who served as acting Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration in 2022. She is the Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2017 to 2021, she was president of the Social Science Research Council, an international research nonprofit organization. She was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science, as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her career on the faculty of Yale University.
1808 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 4 – December 7, 1808**

← 1804
1812 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**James Madison**
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

**Political party**
Democratic-Republican
Federalist

**State**
Virginia
South Carolina

**Running mate**
**George Clinton**
Rufus King

**Electoral vote**
**122**
47

**Popular vote**
**124,732**
62,431

**Percentage**
**64.8%**
32.4%

## Results

Green denotes states won by Madison/Clinton and orange denotes states won by Pinckney/King

### Elected President

Thomas Jefferson
Democratic-Republican
James Madison
Democratic-Republican

The **1808 United States presidential election** was the sixth quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 4, to Wednesday, December 7, 1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.

## Results

Pinckney retained the electoral votes of the two states that he carried in 1804 (Connecticut and Delaware), and he also picked up New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and three electoral districts in North Carolina besides the two electoral districts in Maryland that he carried earlier. Except for the North Carolina districts, all of the improvement was in New England.

Monroe won a portion of the popular vote in Virginia and North Carolina, while the New York State Legislature split its electoral votes between Madison and his running mate, George Clinton.
1888 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 6, 1888**

← 1884
1892 →

## Overview

**Nominee**
**Benjamin Harrison**
Grover Cleveland

**Political party**
Republican
Democratic

**State**
Indiana
New York

**Running mate**
**Levi P. Morton**
Allen G. Thurman

**Electoral vote**
**233**
168

**Popular vote**
5,443,892
**5,534,488**

**Percentage**
47.8%
**48.6%**

**Nominee**
Clinton B. Fisk
Alson Streeter

**Political party**
Prohibition
Union Labor

**State**
New Jersey
Missouri

**Running mate**
John A. Brooks
Charles E. Cunningham

**Electoral vote**
0
0

**Popular vote**
249,819
146,602

**Percentage**
2.2%
1.3%

## Results

Red denotes states won by Harrison/Morton and red denotes those won by Cleveland/Thurman

### Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison
Republican

The **1888 United States presidential election** was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former Senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland of New York, as well as Prohibition candidate Clinton B. Fisk and Union Labor candidate Alson Streeter. It was the third presidential elections (and the second within 12 years) in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote.

## Results

The election focused on the swing states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Harrison's home state of Indiana. Harrison and Cleveland split these four states, with Harrison winning by means of notoriously fraudulent balloting in New York and Indiana. The Republicans won in twenty-six of the forty-four largest cities outside of the South. Had Cleveland won his home state, he would have won the Electoral College by an electoral count of 204-197 (201 electoral votes were needed for victory).

Four states returned results where the winner won by less than 1 percent of the popular vote. Cleveland earned 24 of his electoral votes from states he won by less than one percent: Connecticut, Virginia, and West Virginia. Harrison earned fifteen of his electoral votes from a state he won by less than 1 percent: Indiana. Harrison won New York (36 electoral votes) by a margin of 1.09%. Despite the narrow margins in several states, only two states switched sides in comparison to Cleveland's first presidential election (New York and Indiana).
Allen J. Ellender

**In office**
January 22, 1971 – July 27, 1972

**In office**
January 3, 1937 – July 27, 1972
Served with John H. Overton, William C. Feazel, and Russell B. Long

**In office**
1932–1936

## Member of theLouisiana House of Representatives

**In office**
1924–1936

**Allen Joseph Ellender** (September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 1937 to his death in 1972. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long.
Aaron S. Watkins

## The ReverendAaron S. Watkins

**Aaron Sherman Watkins** (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941) was an American Methodist minister, lawyer, and politician who served as president of Asbury College in Kentucky. Before his ordination, he practiced law with his brother. Long dedicated to promoting the temperance movement, Watkins served as the Prohibition Party's candidate for various political offices, including Vice President of the United States in 1908 and 1912.