Presidential Election Winners History
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Presidential election winners history. Government presidential election results click on heading to sort. Includes all candidates their parties number of electoral and popular votes. In a united states presidential election the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and washington d c.
Presidential election results for every election from 1789 to the present. Year election winner runner up electoral votes for winner electoral votes for runner up popular vote pop vote margin 2020 joe biden donald trump 306 232 pending pending 2016. Presidential elections have represented one of two major parties.
The constitution specifies that the president and vice president be chosen through the votes cast by electors. Since the election of his successor john adams in 1796 all winners of u s. This chart takes a look back in history at popular vote winners since 1824.
Third parties have taken second place only twice in 1860 and 1912. Presidential election results year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3 1 in elections from 1789 to 1804 each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the united states house of representatives. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
Election 2020 watch biden s record 75 million votes rise to the top of presidential history. However the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation s.