Presidential Election Results Us History

Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections.
Presidential election results us history. President john adams a member of the rival federalist party managed only 65 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. The legitimacy of a presidential election result wouldn t be challenged again until 2000.
An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. Supreme court decided a presidential election when the race between. 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.
States or in washington d c cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. That year was the first time the u s.
Following is a table of united states presidential elections in texas ordered by year since its admission to statehood in 1845 texas has participated in every u s. National map former vice president joe biden has been elected as the next president defeating the current president donald trump as our final projection prediction forecast suggested before election day. Traugott a professor emeritus of political science at the university of michigan.
In each case the losing candidate and party dealt with the disputed results differently. See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election. The election of the president and the vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the fifty u s.
The elections of 1876 1888 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in american history. National results statewide results key states ga biden 0 24 p az biden 0 31 p wi biden 0 63 p pa biden 1 18 p nc trump 1 35 p nv. For the first of only two times in history the election went to the house of representatives.