Election Years Since 1900

The united states has had a two party system for much of its history and the major parties of the two party system have dominated presidential elections for most of u s.

Election years since 1900. 1900 william mckinley republican 292 7 207 923 51 7 william jennings bryan democratic 9 155 6 358 133 45 5 1904 theodore roosevelt. Presidential election results year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3. Election results for every election from 1789 to the present.

Former senator matthew quay who had left the senate for nearly two years because of the political stalemate was again elected by the pennsylvania general assembly to the united states senate. The 1900 united states presidential election was the 29th quadrennial presidential election held on tuesday november 6 1900. For the original method of electing the president and the vice president elections of 1789 1792 1796 and 1800 see article ii section 1 of the constitution.

President are held every four years coinciding with those for all 435 seats in the house of representatives and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the senate. Since 1824 a national popular vote has been tallied for each election but the national popular vote does not directly affect the winner of the presidential election. Includes all candidates their parties number of electoral and popular votes.

Because of when these federal offices are up for election the election years are commonly classified into the following three categories. In a re match of the 1896 race republican president william mckinley defeated his democratic challenger william jennings bryan. And there are no more significant numbers than the ones generated on the tuesday after the first monday in november every four years.

View a map results and history from each of the 58 prior u s. So thanks to the folks at ucsb and their fine website dedicated to the united states presidency we present the election results for the last 100 years dating to the first time all 48 contiguous states took part. Elections for the u s.

The special election in pennsylvania was held on january 15 1901 after the regularly scheduled legislative election in january april 1899 failed to elect a senator.