List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin

In United States presidential elections, the national popular vote is the sum of all votes cast in every state and the District of Columbia.

The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected, which is through the Electoral College.

Since the United States does not hold national elections, the national popular vote does not determine the outcome of the United States presidential election.

Graph of voter turnout percentage from 1824 to 2008.

List

The table below can be sorted to display elections by their presidential term / year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the electoral college.

Term Year Electoral College
winner		 Party Pct. of
pop. vote		 Margin
(pct.)		 Pop. vote Margin Electoral College
runner-up		 Party Voter turnout
10 1824 John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican 30.92% −10.44% 113,142 −38,221 Andrew Jackson Democratic-Republican 26.90%
23 1876 Rutherford Hayes Republican 47.92% −3.00% 4,034,142 −252,666 Samuel Tilden Democratic 81.80%
26 1888 Benjamin Harrison Republican 47.80% −0.83% 5,443,633 −94,530 Grover Cleveland Democratic 79.30%
54 2000 George W. Bush Republican 47.87% −0.51% 50,460,110 −543,816 Al Gore Democratic 51.30%
24 1880 James Garfield Republican 48.31% 0.09% 4,453,337 1,898 Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 79.40%
44 1960 John Kennedy Democratic 49.72% 0.17% 34,220,984 112,827 Richard Nixon Republican 62.77%
25 1884 Grover Cleveland Democratic 48.85% 0.57% 4,914,482 57,579 James Blaine Republican 77.50%
46 1968 Richard Nixon Republican 43.42% 0.70% 31,783,783 511,944 Hubert Humphrey Democratic 60.84%
15 1844 James Polk Democratic 49.54% 1.45% 1,339,570 39,413 Henry Clay Whig 78.90%
48 1976 Jimmy Carter Democratic 50.08% 2.06% 40,831,881 1,683,247 Gerald Ford Republican 53.55%
55 2004 George W. Bush Republican 50.73% 2.46% 62,040,610 3,012,171 John Kerry Democratic 55.27%
27 1892 Grover Cleveland Democratic 46.02% 3.01% 5,553,898 363,099 Benjamin Harrison Republican 74.70%
33 1916 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 49.24% 3.12% 9,126,868 578,140 Charles Evans Hughes Republican 61.60%
57 2012 Barack Obama Democratic 51.06% 3.86% 65,915,796 4,982,296 Mitt Romney Republican 57.50%
28 1896 William McKinley Republican 51.02% 4.31% 7,112,138 601,331 William Jennings Bryan Democratic 79.30%
41 1948 Harry Truman Democratic 49.55% 4.48% 24,179,347 2,188,055 Thomas Dewey Republican 53.00%
16 1848 Zachary Taylor Whig 47.28% 4.79% 1,360,235 137,882 Lewis Cass Democratic 72.70%
21 1868 Ulysses Grant Republican 52.66% 5.32% 3,013,790 304,810 Horatio Seymour Democratic 78.10%
52 1992 Bill Clinton Democratic 43.01% 5.56% 44,909,806 5,805,256 George H.W. Bush Republican 55.23%
14 1840 William Henry Harrison Whig 52.87% 6.05% 1,275,583 145,938 Martin Van Buren Democratic 80.20%
29 1900 William McKinley Republican 51.64% 6.12% 7,228,864 857,932 William Jennings Bryan Democratic 73.20%
17 1852 Franklin Pierce Democratic 50.83% 6.95% 1,605,943 219,525 Winfield Scott Whig 69.60%
56 2008 Barack Obama Democratic 52.93% 7.27% 69,498,516 9,550,193 John McCain Republican 57.48%
40 1944 Franklin Roosevelt Democratic 53.39% 7.50% 25,612,916 3,594,987 Thomas Dewey Republican 55.90%
51 1988 George H.W. Bush Republican 53.37% 7.72% 48,886,597 7,077,121 Michael Dukakis Democratic 50.15%
53 1996 Bill Clinton Democratic 49.23% 8.51% 47,400,125 8,201,370 Bob Dole Republican 49.08%
31 1908 William Taft Republican 51.57% 8.53% 7,678,335 1,269,356 William Jennings Bryan Democratic 65.40%
49 1980 Ronald Reagan Republican 50.75% 9.74% 43,903,230 8,423,115 Jimmy Carter Democratic 52.56%
39 1940 Franklin Roosevelt Democratic 54.74% 9.96% 27,313,945 4,966,201 Wendell Willkie Republican 62.50%
20 1864 Abraham Lincoln Republican 55.03% 10.08% 2,211,317 405,090 George McClellan Democratic 73.80%
19 1860 Abraham Lincoln Republican 39.65% 10.13% 1,855,993 474,049 John Breckinridge Democratic 81.20%
42 1952 Dwight Eisenhower Republican 55.18% 10.85% 34,075,529 6,700,439 Adlai Stevenson Democratic 63.30%
22 1872 Ulysses Grant Republican 55.58% 11.80% 3,597,439 763,729 Horace Greeley Liberal Republican 71.30%
18 1856 James Buchanan Democratic 45.29% 12.20% 1,835,140 494,472 John Frémont Republican 78.90%
11 1828 Andrew Jackson Jacksonian 55.93% 12.25% 642,806 140,839 John Quincy Adams National Republican 57.60%
13 1836 Martin Van Buren Democratic 50.79% 14.20% 763,291 213,384 William Henry Harrison Whig 57.80%
32 1912 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 41.84% 14.44% 6,296,284 2,173,563 Theodore Roosevelt Progressive 58.80%
43 1956 Dwight Eisenhower Republican 57.37% 15.40% 35,579,180 9,551,152 Adlai Stevenson Democratic 60.60%
36 1928 Herbert Hoover Republican 58.21% 17.41% 21,427,123 6,411,659 Al Smith Democratic 56.90%
37 1932 Franklin Roosevelt Democratic 57.41% 17.76% 22,821,277 7,060,023 Herbert Hoover Republican 56.90%
12 1832 Andrew Jackson Jacksonian 54.74% 17.81% 702,735 228,628 Henry Clay National Republican 55.40%
50 1984 Ronald Reagan Republican 58.77% 18.21% 54,455,472 16,878,120 Walter Mondale Democratic 53.11%
30 1904 Theodore Roosevelt Republican 56.42% 18.83% 7,630,557 2,546,677 Alton Brooks Parker Democratic 65.20%
45 1964 Lyndon Johnson Democratic 61.05% 22.58% 43,127,041 15,951,287 Barry Goldwater Republican 61.92%
47 1972 Richard Nixon Republican 60.67% 23.15% 47,168,710 17,995,488 George McGovern Democratic 55.21%
38 1936 Franklin Roosevelt Democratic 60.80% 24.26% 27,752,648 11,070,786 Alf Landon Republican 61.00%
35 1924 Calvin Coolidge Republican 54.04% 25.22% 15,723,789 7,337,547 John Davis Democratic 48.90%
34 1920 Warren Harding Republican 60.32% 26.17% 16,144,093 7,004,432 James Cox Democratic 49.20%

Note: The popular vote was not recorded prior to the 1824 election, so the first nine US presidential elections are not included in this table.

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