| Year | President elected | Popular | Elec. | Losing candidate | Popular | Elec. | |||||
| 1789 | George Washington (F) | Unknown | 69 | No opposition | - | - | |||||
| 1792 | George Washington (F) | Unknown | 132 | No opposition | - | - | |||||
| 1796 | John Adams (F) | Unknown | 71 | Thomas Jefferson (DR) | Unknown | 68 | |||||
| 1800 | Thomas Jefferson (DR) | Unknown | 73 | Aaron Burr (DR) | Unknown | 73 | |||||
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson (DR) | Unknown | 162 | Charles Pinckney (F) | Unknown | 14 | |||||
| 1808 | James Madison (DR) | Unknown | 122 | Charles Pinckney (F) | Unknown | 47 | |||||
| 1812 | James Madison (DR) | Unknown | 128 | DeWitt Clinton (F) | Unknown | 89 | |||||
| 1816 | James Monroe (DR) | Unknown | 183 | Rufus King (F) | Unknown | 34 | |||||
| 1820 | James Monroe (DR) | Unknown | 231 | John Quincy Adams (DR) | Unknown | 1 | |||||
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams (DR) | 105,321 | 84 | Andrew Jackson (DR) | 155,872 | 99 | |||||
| Henry Clay (DR) | 46,587 | 37 | |||||||||
| William H. Crawford (DR) | 44,282 | 41 | |||||||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson (D) | 647,231 | 178 | John Quincy Adams (NR) | 509,097 | 83 | |||||
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson (D) | 687,502 | 219 | Henry Clay (NR) | 530,189 | 49 | |||||
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren (D) | 762,678 | 170 | William H. Harrison (W) | 548,007 | 73 | |||||
| 1840 | William H. Harrison (W) | 1,275,017 | 234 | Martin Van Buren (D) | 1,128,702 | 60 | |||||
| 1844 | James K. Polk (D) | 1,337,243 170 | Henry Clay (W) | 1,299,068 | 105 | ||||||
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor (W) | 1,360,101 163 | Lewis Cass (D) | 1,220,544 | 127 | ||||||
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce (D) | 1,601,474 | 254 | Winfield Scott (W) | 1,386,578 | 42 | |||||
| 1856 | James Buchanan (D) | 1,927,995 | 174 | John C. Fremont (R) | 1,391,555 | 114 | |||||
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln (R) | 1,866,352 | 180 | Stephen A. Douglas (D) | 1,375,157 | 12 | |||||
| John C. Breckinridge (D)845,763 | 72 | ||||||||||
| John Bell (Const. Union)589,581 | 39 | ||||||||||
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln (R) | 2,216,067 | 212 | George McClellan (D) | 1,808,725 | 21 | |||||
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) | 3,015,071 | 214 | Horatio Seymour (D) | 2,709,615 | 80 | |||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) | 3,597,070 | 286 | Horace Greeley (D)-(LR) | 2,834,079 | - | |||||
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes (R) | 4,033,950 | 185 | Samuel J. Tilden (D) | 4,284,757 | 184 | |||||
| 1880 | James A. Garfield (R) | 4,449,053 | 214 | Winfield S. Hancock (D) | 4,442,030 | 155 | |||||
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (D) | 4,911,017 | 219 | James G. Blaine (R) | 4,848,334 | 182 | |||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison (R) | 5,444,337 | 233 | Grover Cleveland (D) | 5,540,050 | 168 | |||||
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) | 5,554,414 | 277 | Benjamin Harrison (R) | 5,190,802 | 145 | |||||
| James Weaver (P) | 1,027,329 | 22 | |||||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley (R) | 7,035,638 | 271 | William J. Bryan (D-P) | 6,467,946 | 176 | |||||
| 1900 | William McKinley (R) | 7,219,530 | 292 | William J. Bryan (D) | 6,358,071 | 155 | |||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt (R) | 7,628,834 | 336 | Alton B. Parker (D) | 5,084,491 | 140 | |||||
| 1908 | William H. Taft (R) | 7,679,006 | 321 | William J. Bryan (D) | 6,409,106 | 162 | |||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson (D) | 6,286,214 | 435 | Theodore Roosevelt (PR) | 4,216,020 | 88 | |||||
| William H. Taft (R) | 3,483,922 | 8 | |||||||||
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson (D) | 9,129,606 | 277 | Charles E. Hughes (R) | 8,538,221 | 254 | |||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding (R) | 16,152,200 | 404 | James M. Cox (D) | 9,147,353 | 127 | |||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge (R) | 15,725,016 | 382 | John W. Davis (D) | 8,385,586 | 136 | |||||
| Robert M. LaFollette (PR) | 4,822,856 | 13 | |||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) | 21,392,190 | 444 | Alfred E. Smith (D) | 15,016,443 | 87 | |||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)22,821,857 | 472 | Herbert Hoover (R) | 15,761,841 | 59 | ||||||
| Norman Thomas (Socialist) | 884,781 - | ||||||||||
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)27,751,597 | 523 | Alfred Landon (R) | 16,679,583 8 | |||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)27,243,466 | 449 | Wendell Willkie (R) | 22,304,755 82 | |||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)25,602,505 | 432 | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 22,006,278 | 99 | ||||||
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman (D) | 24,105,812 | 303 | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 21,970,065 | 189 | |||||
| J. Strom Thurmond (SR) | 1,169,021 | 39 | |||||||||
| Henry A. Wallace (PR) | 1,157,172 | - | |||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)33,936,252 | 442 | Adlai E. Stevenson (D) | 27,314,992 | 89 | ||||||
| 19566 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)35,585,316 | 457 | Adlai E. Stevenson (D) | 26,031,322 | 73 | ||||||
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy (D) | 34,227,096 | 303 | Richard M. Nixon (R) | 34,108,546 | 219 | |||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | 43,126,506 | 486 | Barry M. Goldwater (R) | 27,176,799 | 52 | |||||
| 1968 | Richard M. Nixon (R) | 31,785,480 | 301 | Hubert H. Humphrey (D) | 31,275,166 | 191 | George C. Wallace (3rd party)9,906,473 46 | ||||
| 1972 | Richard M. Nixon (R) | 47,165,234 | 520 | George S. McGovern (D) | 29,170,774 | 17 | |||||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter (D) | 40,828,929 | 297 | Gerald R. Ford (R) | 39,148,940 | 240 | |||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan (R) | 43,899,248 | 489 | Jimmy Carter (D) | 35,481,435 | 49 | |||||
| John B. Anderson (independent)5,719,437 | - | ||||||||||
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan (R) | 54,281,858 | 525 | Walter F. Mondale (D) | 37,457,215 | 13 | |||||
| 1988 | George Bush (R) | 48,881,221 | 426 | Michael S. Dukakis (D) | 41,805,422 | 111 | |||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton (D) | 44,908,254 | 370 | George Bush (R) | 39,102,343 | 168 | |||||
| H. Ross Perot (independent)19,741,065 - |
Source: The World Almanac� and Book of Facts 1995