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US Presidents - Electoral College Votes

The Durja 2024-11-06

The president and vice president of the United States are formally elected through an electoral college. Members (“electors”) of this electoral college are chosen through the popular vote in each state, and to be elected president a candidate must receive a majority of the electoral votes. If no candidate receives a majority, the president is elected by the House of Representatives, which may choose among the three candidates with the most electoral votes.

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US states Presidential Election

In the United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains 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.

Thus it is possible for the winner of the popular vote to end up losing the election, an outcome that has occurred on five occasions, most recently in the 2016 election. This is because presidential elections are indirect elections; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College. The Electoral College's electors then formally elect the president and vice president.

List of All US Presidents by Electoral College Votes

SL	Year	Winner	Electroral College Votes
1	1788-89- 92	George Washington	69/69
2	1796	John Adamus	73/138
3	1800	Thomas Jefferson	162/176
4	1804	Thomas Jefferson	162/176
5	1808	James Madison	122/175
6	1812	James Madison	128/217
7	1816	James Monroe	183/217
8	1820	James Monroe	231/232
9	1824	John Quincy Adams	84/261
10	1828	Andrew Jackson	178/216
11	1832	Andrew Jackson	219/286
12	1836	Martin Van Buren	170/294
13	1840	William Henry Harrison	234/294
14	1844	James K Polk	170/275
15	1848	Zachary Taylor	163/290
16	1852	Franklin Pierce	254/296
17	1856	James Buchanan	174/296
18	1860	Abraham Lincoln	180/303
19	1864	Abraham Lincoln	212/233
20	1868	Ulysses S.Grant	214/294
21	1872	Ulysses S.Grant	286/352
22	1876	Rutherford B. Hayes	185/369
23	1880	James A. Garfield	214/369
24	1884	Grover Cleveland	219/401
25	1888	Benjamin Harrison	233/401
26	1892	Grover Cleveland	277/444
27	1896	William McKinley	271/447
28	1900	William McKinley	292/447
29	1904	Theodore Roosevelt	336/476
30	1908	William Howard Taft	321/483
31	1912	Woodrow Wilson	435/531
32	1916	Woodrow Wilson	277/531
33	1920	Warren G. Harding	404/531
34	1924	Calvin Coolidge	382/531
35	1928	Herbert Hoover	444/531
36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	472/531
37	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	523/531
38	1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	449/531
39	1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	432/531
40	1948	Harry S Truman	303/531
41	1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	442/531
42	1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	457/531
43	1960	John F. Kennedy	303/537
44	1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	486/538
45	1968	Richard Nixon	301/538
46	1972	Richard Nixon	520/538
47	1976	Jimmy Carter	297/538
48	1980	Ronald Reagan	489/538
49	1984	Ronald Reagan	525/538
50	1988	George H. W. Bush	426/538
51	1992	Bill Clinton	370/538
52	1996	Bill Clinton	379/538
53	2000	George W. Bush	271/538
54	2004	George W. Bush	286/538
55	2008	Barack Obama	365/538
56	2012	Barack Obama	332/538
57	2016	Donald Trump	304/538
58	2020	Joe Biden	306/538