Us Election Results Historical

Wisconsin and oregon were too close to call but the election came down to florida and its 25 electoral votes.

Us election results historical. Includes all candidates their parties number of electoral and popular votes. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote however the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation s president or vice president. It s a process not a place the electoral college is how we refer to the process by which the united states elects the president.

By the next morning. Election results for every election from 1789 to the present. Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections.

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. An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. 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.

Historical results data comes from the federal election commission and daily kos. States or in washington d c cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college. To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page see this historical elections timeline.

These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. We post the certificates on a rolling basis and update the page only on federal business days. Table of election results under the procedure provided in article ii section 1 clause 3 of the constitution by which the electoral college functioned during the first four presidential elections prior to ratification of the twelfth amendment each elector cast two votes one for president and one for vice president but did not distinguish between them.

The election of 1804 was the first one in which the electors voted for president and vice president on separate ballots. Most states use a winner takes all method to. The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing democratic republican party resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party and competing for influence in different parts of the country.