Election Years Since 1972

Presidential election 1972 richard nixon republican defeated george mcgovern democrat.

Election years since 1972. The former in august 1974 due to watergate the latter in october 1973 due to a separate corruption charge. 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. And there are no more significant numbers than the ones generated on the tuesday after the first monday in november every four years.

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. In the 1980s the ndp briefly gained election and in the 1990s the greens were elected to the senate. Within two years of the election both nixon and vice president spiro agnew resigned from office.

The 1972 presidential election was the first since the ratification of the 26th amendment which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. This is a list of united kingdom general elections elections for the uk house of commons since the first in 1802 the members of the 1801 1802 parliament had been elected to the former parliament of great britain and parliament of ireland before being co opted to serve in the first parliament of the united kingdom so that parliament is not included in the table below. The maps below show the evolution of single party presidential election voting consistency since 1964.

This page links to the results of those historical elections including a larger map results and synopsis of the race. Nixon won reelection with 60 percent of the vote only to resign the presidency in 1974 over the watergate controversy. These can be used as a starting point for your own 2020 presidential election forecast.

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. Although the dlp ceased to be a force after gough whitlam took power in 1972 the liberal movement and its successor the australian democrats carved out their own niche. 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.

Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections. Includes all candidates their parties number of electoral and popular votes.