Us Presidential Election Years Past

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.

Us presidential election years past. You can find the results of past federal elections from several government sources. The federal election commission releases the official results of federal elections. Federal election commission resources.

Election results for every election from 1789 to the present. These reports are run by state every two years and are available for elections from 1982 to 2016. Elections for the u s.

Held in baltimore maryland september 26 28 1831 it transformed the process by which political parties select their presidential and vice presidential candidates. Presidential election was held in 1788 1789 followed by the second in 1792. African american male suffrage.

States or in washington d c cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college. Historical presidential elections through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections. 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.

Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote the winner is determined through. The presidential election of 1860 wasn t just contentious it tore the nation apart. 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.

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. An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. Elections are held for all 435 seats in the house of representatives and 33 or 34 seats in the senate.