List of United States presidential candidates (1856–present)

This is a list of candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in general elections since 1856. The winning tickets are shown in bold.

Year Democratic Republican Other
1856 James Buchanan – John C. Breckinridge John Fremont – William Dayton Millard Fillmore – Andrew Jackson Donelson (Know Nothing)
1860 Stephen A. Douglas – Herschel Vespasian Johnson Abraham Lincoln – Hannibal Hamlin John C. Breckinridge – Joseph Lane (Southern Democratic)
John Bell – Edward Everett (Constitutional Union)
1864 George McClellan – G. H. Pendleton Abraham Lincoln – Andrew Johnson  
1868 Horatio Seymour – Francis Blair Ulysses S. Grant – Schuyler Colfax  
1872 Horace Greeley – B. Gratz Brown Ulysses S. Grant – Henry Wilson Charles O'Conor – Charles Francis Adams (Straight Out Democratic)
1876 Samuel J. Tilden – Thomas Hendricks Rutherford B. Hayes – William A. Wheeler Peter Cooper – Samuel Fenton Cary (Greenback Labor)
Green Clay Smith – Gideon T. Stewart (Prohibition)
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock – William English James Garfield – Chester A. Arthur James B. Weaver – Benjamin J. Chambers (Greenback Labor)
Neal Dow – Henry A. Thompson (Prohibition)
1884 Grover Cleveland – Thomas Hendricks James Blaine – John A. Logan Benjamin F. Butler – Absolom M. West (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly)
John P. St. John – William Daniel (Prohibition)
1888 Grover Cleveland – Allen G. Thurman Benjamin Harrison – Levi Morton Clinton B. Fisk – John A. Brooks (Prohibition)
Alson J. Streeter – Charles E. Cunningham (Union Labor)
1892 Grover Cleveland – Adlai E. Stevenson Benjamin Harrison – Whitelaw Reid James B. Weaver – James G. Field (Populist)
John Bidwell – James B. Cranfill (Prohibition)
Simon Wing – Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor)
1896 William Jennings Bryan – Arthur Sewall William McKinley – Garret Hobart John M. Palmer – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. (National Democratic)
Joshua Levering – Hale Johnson (Prohibition)
Charles H. Matchett – Matthew Maguire (Socialist Labor)
1900 William Jennings Bryan – Adlai E. Stevenson William McKinley – Theodore Roosevelt John G. Woolley – Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition)
Eugene V. Debs – Job Harriman (Socialist)
Wharton Barker – Ignatius L. Donnelly (Populist)
Joseph F. Malloney – Valentine Remmel (Socialist Labor)
1904 Alton B. Parker – Henry G. Davis Theodore Roosevelt – Charles W. Fairbanks Eugene V. Debs – Benjamin Hanford (Socialist)
Silas C. Swallow – George W. Carroll (Prohibition)
Thomas E. Watson – Thomas Tibbles (Populist)
Charles H. Corregan – William Wesley Cox (Socialist Labor)
1908 William Jennings Bryan – John W. Kern William Howard Taft – James S. Sherman Eugene V. Debs – Ben Hanford (Socialist)
Eugene W. Chafin – Aaron S. Watkins (Prohibition)
Thomas L. Hisgen – John Temple Graves (Independence)
August Gillhaus – Donald L. Munro (Socialist Labor)
1912 Woodrow Wilson – Thomas R. Marshall William Howard Taft – Nicholas M. Butler Theodore Roosevelt – Hiram W. Johnson (Progressive)
Eugene V. Debs – Emil Seidel (Socialist)
Eugene W. Chafin – Aaron S. Watkins (Prohibition)
Arthur E. Reimer – August Gillhaus (Socialist Labor)
1916 Woodrow Wilson – Thomas R. Marshall Charles Evans Hughes – Charles W. Fairbanks Allan L. Benson – George R. Kirkpatrick (Socialist)
J. Frank Hanly – Ira Landrith (Prohibition)
Arthur E. Reimer – Caleb Harrison (Socialist Labor)
1920 James M. Cox – Franklin D. Roosevelt Warren G. Harding – Calvin Coolidge Eugene V. Debs – Seymour Stedman (Socialist)
Parley P. Christensen – Maximillian Hays (Farmer-Labor)
Aaron Watkins – D. Leigh Colvin (Prohibition)
1924 John W. Davis – Charles W. Bryan Calvin Coolidge – Charles G. Dawes Robert M. LaFollette – Burton K. Wheeler (Progressive)
Frank T. Johns – Verne L. Reynolds (Socialist Labor)
1928 Al Smith – Joseph Taylor Robinson Herbert Hoover – Charles Curtis Norman Thomas – James H. Maurer (Socialist)
William Z. Foster – Ben Gitlow (Communist)
Verne L. Reynolds – Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor)
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt – John Nance Garner Herbert Hoover – Charles Curtis Norman Thomas – James H. Maurer (Socialist)
William Z. Foster – James W. Ford (Communist)
William D. Upshaw – Frank S. Regan (Prohibition)
Verne L. Reynolds – John W. Aiken (Socialist Labor)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt – John Nance Garner Alf Landon – Frank Knox William Lemke – Thomas C. O'Brien (Union)
Norman Thomas – George A. Nelson (Socialist)
Earl Browder – James W. Ford (Communist)
D. Leigh Colvin – Claude A. Watson (Prohibition)
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt – Henry A. Wallace Wendell Willkie – Charles L. McNary Norman Thomas – Maynard C. Krueger (Socialist)
Roger W. Babson – Edgar V. Moorman (Prohibition)
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt – Harry S. Truman Thomas Dewey – John W. Bricker Norman Thomas – Darlington Hoopes (Socialist)
Claude A. Watson – Andrew Johnson (Prohibition)
1948 Harry S. Truman – Alben W. Barkley Thomas Dewey – Earl Warren Strom Thurmond – Fielding L. Wright (States' Rights)
Henry A. Wallace – Glen H. Taylor (Progressive)
Norman Thomas – Tucker P. Smith (Socialist)
Edward A. Teichert – Stephen Emery (Socialist Labor)
1952 Adlai Stevenson II – John Sparkman Dwight D. Eisenhower – Richard Nixon Vincent Hallinan – Charlotta Bass (Progressive)
Eric Hass – Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor)
1956 Adlai Stevenson II – Estes Kefauver Dwight D. Eisenhower – Richard Nixon  
1960 John F. Kennedy – Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.  
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson – Hubert Humphrey Barry Goldwater – William E. Miller  
1968 Hubert Humphrey – Edmund Muskie Richard Nixon – Spiro Agnew George Wallace – Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1972 George McGovern – Sargent Shriver Richard Nixon – Spiro Agnew John G. Schmitz – Thomas J. Anderson (American Independent)
1976 Jimmy Carter (Ga.) – Walter Mondale (Minn.) Gerald Ford (Mich.) – Bob Dole (Kan.) Eugene McCarthy – (various) (Independent)
Roger MacBride – David Bergland (Libertarian)
Peter Camejo – Willie Mae Reid (Socialist Workers)
Gus Hall – Jarvis Tyner (Communist)
Lyndon LaRouche – Ronald Wayne Evans (Labor)
1980 Jimmy Carter (Ga.) – Walter Mondale (Minn.) Ronald Reagan (Calif.) – George H. W. Bush (Tex.) John B. Anderson – Patrick J. Lucey (Independent)
Ed Clark – David H. Koch (Libertarian)
Barry Commoner – LaDonna Harris (Citizens)
Gus Hall – Angela Davis (Communist)
1984 Walter Mondale (Minn.) – Geraldine Ferraro (N.Y.) Ronald Reagan (Calif.) – George H. W. Bush (Tex.) David Bergland – James A. Lewis (Libertarian)
Dennis L. Serrette – Nancy Ross (New Alliance)
1988 Michael Dukakis (Mass.) – Lloyd Bentsen (Tex.) George H. W. Bush (Tex.) – Dan Quayle (Ind.) Ron Paul – Andre Marrou (Libertarian)
Lenora Fulani – (various) (New Alliance)
1992 Bill Clinton (Ark.) – Al Gore (Tenn.) George H. W. Bush (Tex.) – Dan Quayle (Ind.) Ross Perot – James Stockdale (Independent)
Andre Marrou – Nancy Lord (Libertarian)
Lenora Fulani – Maria Elizabeth Muñoz (New Alliance)
1996 Bill Clinton (Ark.) – Al Gore (Tenn.) Bob Dole (Kan.) – Jack Kemp (N.Y.) Ross Perot – Patrick Choate (Reform)
Harry Browne – Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian)
Howard Phillips – Herb Titus (Taxpayers)
John Hagelin – Michael Tompkins (Natural Law)
2000 Al Gore (Tenn.) – Joe Lieberman (Conn.) George W. Bush (Tex.) – Dick Cheney (Wyo.) Ralph Nader – Winona LaDuke (Green)
Pat Buchanan – Ezola Foster (Reform)
Harry Browne – Art Olivier (Libertarian)
Howard Phillips – Curtis Frazier (Constitution)
John Hagelin – Nat Goldhaber (Natural Law)
2004 John Kerry (Mass.) – John Edwards (N.C.) George W. Bush (Tex.) – Dick Cheney (Wyo.) Ralph Nader – Peter Camejo (Independent/Reform)
Michael Badnarik – Richard Campagna (Libertarian)
Michael Peroutka – Chuck Baldwin (Constitution)
David Cobb – Pat LaMarche (Green)
2008 Barack Obama (Ill.) – Joseph Biden (Del.) John McCain (Ariz.) – Sarah Palin (Alaska) Bob Barr – Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian)
Ralph Nader – Matt Gonzalez (Independent)
Cynthia McKinney – Rosa Clemente (Green)
Chuck Baldwin – Darrell Castle (Constitution)

See also

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