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 (Pa.) – John C. Breckinridge (Ky.) | John Fremont (Calif.) – William Dayton (N.J.) | Millard Fillmore – Andrew Jackson Donelson (Know Nothing) |
| 1860 | Stephen A. Douglas (Ill.) – Herschel Vespasian Johnson (Ga.) | Abraham Lincoln (Ill.) – Hannibal Hamlin (Maine) | John C. Breckinridge – Joseph Lane (Southern Democratic) John Bell – Edward Everett (Constitutional Union) |
| 1864 | George McClellan (N.J.) – George Hunt Pendleton (Ohio) | Abraham Lincoln (Ill.) – Andrew Johnson (Tenn.) | |
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour (N.Y.) – Francis Blair (Mo.) | Ulysses S. Grant (Ill.) – Schuyler Colfax (Ind.) | |
| 1872 | Horace Greeley (N.Y.) – B. Gratz Brown (Mo.) | Ulysses S. Grant (Ill.) – Henry Wilson (Mass.) | Charles O'Conor – Charles Francis Adams (Straight Out Democratic) |
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden (N.Y.) – Thomas Hendricks (Ind.) | Rutherford B. Hayes (Ohio) – William A. Wheeler (N.Y.) | Peter Cooper – Samuel Fenton Cary (Greenback Labor) Green Clay Smith – Gideon T. Stewart (Prohibition) |
| 1880 | Winfield Scott Hancock (Pa.) – William English (Ind.) | James Garfield (Ohio) – Chester A. Arthur (N.Y.) | James B. Weaver – Benjamin J. Chambers (Greenback Labor) Neal Dow – Henry A. Thompson (Prohibition) |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (N.Y.) – Thomas Hendricks (Ind.) | James Blaine (Maine) – John A. Logan (Ill.) | Benjamin F. Butler – Absolom M. West (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly) John P. St. John – William Daniel (Prohibition) |
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland (N.Y.) – Allen G. Thurman (Ohio) | Benjamin Harrison (Ind.) – Levi Morton (N.Y.) | Clinton B. Fisk – John A. Brooks (Prohibition) Alson J. Streeter – Charles E. Cunningham (Union Labor) |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (N.Y.) – Adlai E. Stevenson (Ill.) | Benjamin Harrison (Ind.) – Whitelaw Reid (N.Y.) | James B. Weaver – James G. Field (Populist) John Bidwell – James B. Cranfill (Prohibition) Simon Wing – Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor) |
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan (Neb.) – Arthur Sewall (Maine) | William McKinley (Ohio) – Garret Hobart (N.J.) | John M. Palmer (Ill.) – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. (Ky.) (National Democratic) Joshua Levering – Hale Johnson (Prohibition) Charles H. Matchett – Matthew Maguire (Socialist Labor) |
| 1900 | William Jennings Bryan (Neb.) – Adlai E. Stevenson (Ill.) | William McKinley (Ohio) – Theodore Roosevelt (N.Y.) | John G. Woolley – Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) Eugene V. Debs (Ind.) – Job Harriman (Socialist) Wharton Barker – Ignatius L. Donnelly (Populist) Joseph F. Maloney – Valentine Remmel (Socialist Labor) |
| 1904 | Alton B. Parker (N.Y.) – Henry G. Davis (W.V.) | Theodore Roosevelt (N.Y.) – Charles W. Fairbanks (Ind.) | Eugene V. Debs (Ind.) – Benjamin Hanford (Socialist) Silas C. Swallow – George Washington Carroll (Prohibition) Thomas E. Watson – Thomas Tibbles (Populist) Charles H. Corregan – William Wesley Cox (Socialist Labor) |
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan (Neb.) – John W. Kern (Ind.) | William Howard Taft (Ohio) – James S. Sherman (N.Y.) | Eugene V. Debs (Ind.) – Benjamin 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 (N.J.) – Thomas R. Marshall (Ind.) | William Howard Taft (Ohio) – James S. Sherman (N.Y.)/Nicholas M. Butler (N.Y.)* | Theodore Roosevelt (N.Y.) – Hiram W. Johnson (Calif.) (Progressive) Eugene V. Debs (Ind.) – Emil Seidel (Socialist) Eugene W. Chafin – Aaron S. Watkins (Prohibition) Arthur E. Reimer – August Gillhaus (Socialist Labor) |
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson (N.J.) – Thomas R. Marshall (Ind.) | Charles Evans Hughes (N.Y.) – Charles W. Fairbanks (Ind.) | Allan L. Benson – George R. Kirkpatrick (Socialist) J. Frank Hanly – Ira Landrith (Prohibition) Arthur E. Reimer – Caleb Harrison (Socialist Labor) |
| 1920 | James M. Cox (Ohio) – Franklin D. Roosevelt (N.Y.) | Warren G. Harding (Ohio) – Calvin Coolidge (Mass.) | Eugene V. Debs (Ind.) – Seymour Stedman (Socialist) Parley P. Christensen – Maximillian Hays (Farmer-Labor) Aaron Watkins – D. Leigh Colvin (Prohibition) |
| 1924 | John W. Davis (W.V.) – Charles W. Bryan (Neb.) | Calvin Coolidge (Mass.) – Charles G. Dawes (Ill.) | Robert M. LaFollette – Burton K. Wheeler (Progressive) Frank T. Johns – Verne L. Reynolds (Socialist Labor) |
| 1928 | Al Smith (N.Y.) – Joseph Taylor Robinson (Ark.) | Herbert Hoover (Calif.) – Charles Curtis (Kans.) | Norman Thomas – James H. Maurer (Socialist) William Z. Foster – Ben Gitlow (Communist) Verne L. Reynolds – Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor) |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (N.Y.) – John Nance Garner (Tex.) | Herbert Hoover (Calif.) – Charles Curtis (Kans.) | 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 (N.Y.) – John Nance Garner (Tex.) | Alf Landon (Kans.) – Frank Knox (Ill.) | 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 (N.Y.) – Henry A. Wallace (Iowa) | Wendell Willkie (Ind.) – Charles L. McNary (Ore.) | Norman Thomas – Maynard C. Krueger (Socialist) Roger W. Babson – Edgar V. Moorman (Prohibition) |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (N.Y.) – Harry S. Truman (Mo.) | Thomas Dewey (N.Y.) – John W. Bricker (Ohio) | Norman Thomas – Darlington Hoopes (Socialist) Claude A. Watson – Andrew Johnson (Prohibition) |
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman (Mo.) – Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) | Thomas Dewey (N.Y.) – Earl Warren (Calif.) | 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 (Ill.) – John Sparkman (Ala.) | Dwight D. Eisenhower (N.Y.) – Richard Nixon (Calif.) | Vincent Hallinan – Charlotta Bass (Progressive) Eric Hass – Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) |
| 1956 | Adlai Stevenson II (Ill.) – Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) | Dwight D. Eisenhower (N.Y.) – Richard Nixon (Calif.) | |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy (Mass.) – Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) | Richard Nixon (Calif.) – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Mass.) | |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) – Hubert Humphrey (Minn.) | Barry Goldwater (Ariz.) – William E. Miller (N.Y.) | |
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey (Minn.) – Edmund Muskie (Maine) | Richard Nixon (N.Y.) – Spiro Agnew (Md.) | George Wallace – Curtis LeMay (American Independent) |
| 1972 | George McGovern (S.D.) – Sargent Shriver (Md.) | Richard Nixon (Calif.) – Spiro Agnew (Md.) | John G. Schmitz – Thomas J. Anderson (American Independent) |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter (Ga.) – Walter Mondale (Minn.) | Gerald Ford (Mich.) – Bob Dole (Kans.) | 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 (Kans.) – 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) |
| 2012 | Barack Obama (Ill.) – Joseph Biden (Del.) | Mitt Romney (Mass.) – Paul Ryan (Wis.) | Jill Stein - Cheri Honkala (Green) Gary Johnson - Jim Gray (Libertarian) |
Note:
- VP James S. Sherman died on 30 October 1912, just days before the election. Even though his name remained on the 1912 presidential ballot, nevertheless he could not be awarded electoral votes. Thus, when the Electoral College met, those electors pledged to Taft voted for educator Nicholas Murray Butler in Sherman's place. Butler had no illusions that he would be elected, as Taft came in third of the then-three major parties, behind Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) and Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive).
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