This is a list of the candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the modern Democratic Party of the United States.
Election year | Result | Nominees | |
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President | Vice President | ||
1828 | won | Former Tennessee Senator Andrew Jackson [1] |
Vice President John C. Calhoun[1][2] |
1832 | won | Secretary of State Martin Van Buren |
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1836 | won | Vice President Martin Van Buren |
Kentucky Congressman Richard Mentor Johnson[3] |
1840 | lost | ||
1844 | won | Former Tennessee Governor James K. Polk |
Former Pennsylvania Senator George M. Dallas |
1848 | lost | Michigan Senator Lewis Cass |
Former Kentucky Congressman William O. Butler |
1852 | won | Former New Hampshire Senator Franklin Pierce |
Alabama Senator William R. King[4] |
1856 | won | Former Secretary of State James Buchanan |
Former Kentucky Congressman John C. Breckinridge |
1860 | lost | Illinois Senator (Northern) Stephen A. Douglas[5] |
Former Georgia Governor Herschel Vespasian Johnson[5] |
lost | Vice President (Southern) John C. Breckinridge[5] |
Oregon Senator Joseph Lane[5] |
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1864 | lost | General George B. McClellan |
Ohio Congressman George H. Pendleton |
1868 | lost | Former New York Governor Horatio Seymour |
Former Missouri Congressman Francis Preston Blair, Jr. |
1872 | lost | Former New York Congressman Horace Greeley[6] |
Missouri Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown |
1876 | lost[7] | New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden |
Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks |
1880 | lost | General Winfield Scott Hancock |
Former Indiana Congressman William Hayden English |
1884 | won | New York Governor Grover Cleveland |
Former Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks[4] |
1888 | lost[7] | Former Ohio Senator Allen G. Thurman |
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1892 | won | Former Illinois Congressman Adlai E. Stevenson I |
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1896 | lost | Former Nebraska Congressman (Regular) William Jennings Bryan[8] |
Former DNC Member Arthur Sewall[8] |
lost | Illinois Senator (Gold) John McAuley Palmer[8] |
Former Kentucky Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner[8] |
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1900 | lost | Former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan |
Former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I |
1904 | lost | Judge Alton B. Parker |
Former West Virginia Senator Henry G. Davis |
1908 | lost | Former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan |
Former Indiana State Senator John W. Kern |
1912 | won | New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson |
Indiana Governor Thomas R. Marshall |
1916 | won | ||
1920 | lost | Ohio Governor James M. Cox |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1924 | lost | Former West Virginia Congressman John W. Davis |
Nebraska Governor Charles W. Bryan |
1928 | lost | New York Governor Al Smith |
Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson |
1932 | won | New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt[4] |
House Speaker John Nance Garner |
1936 | won | ||
1940 | won | Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace |
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1944 | won | Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman |
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1948 | won | President Harry S. Truman |
Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley |
1952 | lost | Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson |
Alabama Senator John Sparkman |
1956 | lost | Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver |
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1960 | won | Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy[9] |
Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson |
1964 | won | President Lyndon B. Johnson |
Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey |
1968 | lost | Vice President Hubert Humphrey |
Maine Senator Edmund Muskie |
1972 | lost | South Dakota Senator George McGovern |
Former Ambassador Sargent Shriver[10] |
1976 | won | Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter |
Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale |
1980 | lost | ||
1984 | lost | Former Vice President Walter Mondale |
New York Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro |
1988 | lost | Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis |
Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen |
1992 | won | Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton |
Tennessee Senator Al Gore |
1996 | won | ||
2000 | lost[7] | Vice President Al Gore |
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman |
2004 | lost | Massachusetts Senator John Kerry |
North Carolina Senator John Edwards |
2008 | won | Illinois Senator Barack Obama |
Delaware Senator Joe Biden |
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