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- <text id=93AC0105>
- <title>
- Vote Cast for President:1920-92
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Elections
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- Vote Cast for President, by Political Parties: 1920 - 1992
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>[Prior to 1964, excludes Washington, DC; prior to 1980,
- excludes Alaska & Hawaii. Votes cast for major party
- candidates includes the votes of minor parties cast for
- those candidates.]
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Year<cell>Democratic Candidate<cell>Republican Candidate<cell>Total Popular Vote (1,000)
- <row><cell type=i>1920<cell type=a>Cox<cell type=a>Harding<cell type=i>26,768
- <row><cell>1924<cell>Davis<cell>Coolidge<cell>29,095
- <row><cell>1928<cell>Smith<cell>Hoover<cell>36,806
- <row><cell>1932<cell>F.D. Roosevelt<cell>Hoover<cell>39,758
- <row><cell>1936<cell>F.D. Roosevelt<cell>Landon<cell>45,654
- <row><cell>1940<cell>F.D. Roosevelt<cell>Willkie<cell>49,900
- <row><cell>1944<cell>F.D. Roosevelt<cell>Dewey<cell>47,977
- <row><cell>1948<cell>Truman<cell>Dewey<cell>48,794
- <row><cell>1952<cell>Stevenson<cell>Eisenhower<cell>61,551
- <row><cell>1956<cell>Stevenson<cell>Eisenhower<cell>62,027
- <row><cell>1960<cell>Kennedy<cell>Nixon<cell>68,838
- <row><cell>1964<cell>Johnson<cell>Goldwater<cell>70,645
- <row><cell>1968<cell>Humphrey<cell>Nixon<cell>73,212
- <row><cell>1972<cell>McGovern<cell>Nixon<cell>77,719
- <row><cell>1976<cell>Carter<cell>Ford<cell>81,556
- <row><cell>1980<cell>Carter<cell>Reagan<cell>86,515
- <row><cell>1984<cell>Mondale<cell>Reagan<cell>92,653
- <row><cell>1988<cell>Dukakis<cell>Bush<cell>91,595
- <row><cell>1992<cell>Clinton<cell>Bush<cell>104,425
- </table>
- <p><hi format=bold>Vote Cast for President</hi>
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Year<cell type=i>Democratic Popular Vote (1,000)<cell type=i>Percent<cell type=i>Electoral Vote<cell type=i>Republican Popular Vote (1,000)<cell type=i>Percent<cell type=i>Electoral Vote
- <row><cell type=i>1920<cell type=i>9,133<cell type=n>34.1<cell type=i>127<cell type=i>16,153<cell type=n>60.3<cell type=i>404
- <row><cell>1924<cell>8,387<cell>28.8<cell>136<cell>15,720<cell>54.0<cell>382
- <row><cell>1928<cell>15,008<cell>40.8<cell>87<cell>21,437<cell>58.2<cell>444
- <row><cell>1932<cell>22,829<cell>57.4<cell>472<cell>15,760<cell>39.6<cell>59
- <row><cell>1936<cell>27,757<cell>60.8<cell>523<cell>16,684<cell>36.5<cell>8
- <row><cell>1940<cell>27,313<cell>54.7<cell>449<cell>22,348<cell>44.8<cell>82
- <row><cell>1944<cell>25,613<cell>53.4<cell>432<cell>22,018<cell>45.9<cell>99
- <row><cell>1948<cell>24,179<cell>49.6<cell>303<cell>21,991<cell>45.1<cell>189
- <row><cell>1952<cell>27,315<cell>44.4<cell>89<cell>33,936<cell>55.1<cell>442
- <row><cell>1956<cell>26,023<cell>42.0<cell>73<cell>35,590<cell>57.4<cell>457
- <row><cell>1960<cell>34,227<cell>49.7<cell>303<cell>34,108<cell>49.5<cell>219
- <row><cell>1964<cell>43,130<cell>61.1<cell>486<cell>27,178<cell>38.5<cell>52
- <row><cell>1968<cell>31,275<cell>42.7<cell>191<cell>31,785<cell>43.4<cell>301
- <row><cell>1972<cell>29,170<cell>37.5<cell>17<cell>47,170<cell>60.7<cell>520
- <row><cell>1976<cell>40,831<cell>50.1<cell>297<cell>39,148<cell>48.0<cell>240
- <row><cell>1980<cell>35,484<cell>41.0<cell>49<cell>43,904<cell>50.7<cell>489
- <row><cell>1984<cell>37,577<cell>40.6<cell>13<cell>54,455<cell>58.8<cell>525
- <row><cell>1988<cell>41,809<cell>45.6<cell>111<cell>48,886<cell>53.4<cell>426
- <row><cell>1992<cell>44,909<cell>43.0<cell>370<cell>39,104<cell>37.4<cell>168
- </table>
- <p><hi format=bold>Votes Cast for President, Leading Other Candidates</hi>
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Year<cell>Candidate<cell>Party<cell type=i>Votes
- <row><cell type=i>1920<cell type=a>Eugene Debs<cell type=a>Socialist<cell type=i>915,490
- <row><cell><cell>P.P. Christensen<cell>Farmer-Labor<cell>265,229
- <row><cell>1924<cell>Robert LaFollette<cell>Progressive<cell>4,832,532
- <row><cell><cell>Herman P. Faris<cell>Prohibition<cell>56,292
- <row><cell>1928<cell>Norman Thomas<cell>Socialist<cell>265,583
- <row><cell><cell>Verne L. Reynolds<cell>Socialist Labor<cell>21,586
- <row><cell>1932<cell>Norman Thomas<cell>Socialist<cell>884,649
- <row><cell><cell>William Z. Foster<cell>Communist<cell>103,253
- <row><cell>1936<cell>William Lemke<cell>Union<cell>892,267
- <row><cell><cell>Norman Thomas<cell>Socialist<cell>187,833
- <row><cell>1940<cell>Norman Thomas<cell>Socialist<cell>116,410
- <row><cell><cell>Roger Babson<cell>Prohibition<cell>58,708
- <row><cell>1944<cell>Norman Thomas<cell>Socialist<cell>79,003
- <row><cell><cell>Claude Watson<cell>Prohibition<cell>74,799
- <row><cell>1948<cell>Strom Thurmond<cell>States' Rights<cell>1,176,125
- <row><cell><cell>Henry Wallace<cell>Progressive<cell>1,157,326
- <row><cell>1952<cell>Vincent Hallinan<cell>Progressive<cell>140,023
- <row><cell><cell>Stuart Hamblen<cell>Prohibition<cell>72,949
- <row><cell>1956<cell>T. Coleman Andrews<cell>States' Rights<cell>111,178
- <row><cell><cell>Eric Hass<cell>Socialist Labor<cell>44,450
- <row><cell>1960<cell>Eric Hass<cell>Socialist Labor<cell>47,522
- <row><cell><cell>Rutherford Decker<cell>Prohibition<cell>46,203
- <row><cell>1964<cell>Eric Hass<cell>Socialist Labor<cell>45,219
- <row><cell><cell>Clifton DeBerry<cell>Socialist Workers<cell>32,720
- <row><cell>1968<cell>George Wallace<cell>American Independent<cell>9,906,473
- <row><cell><cell>Henning Blomen<cell>Socialist Labor<cell>52,588
- <row><cell>1972<cell>John Schmitz<cell>American<cell>1,099,482
- <row><cell><cell>Benjamin Spock<cell>Peoples's<cell>78,756
- <row><cell>1976<cell>Eugene McCarthy<cell>Independent<cell>756,691
- <row><cell><cell>Roger McBride<cell>Libertarian<cell>173,011
- <row><cell>1980<cell>John Anderson<cell>Independent<cell>5,720,060
- <row><cell><cell>Ed Clark<cell>Libertarian<cell>921,299
- <row><cell>1984<cell>David Bergland<cell>Libertarian<cell>228,314
- <row><cell><cell>Lyndon H. LaRouche<cell>Independent<cell>78,807
- <row><cell>1988<cell>Ron Paul<cell>Libertarian<cell>432,179
- <row><cell><cell>Lenora B. Fulani<cell>New Alliance<cell>217,219
- <row><cell>1992<cell>H. Ross Perot<cell>Independent<cell>19,742,000
- <row><cell><cell>Andre Marrou<cell>Libertarian<cell>292,000
- </table>
- 1. Except for 1988, includes votes for minor party candidates, independents, unpledged electors, and scattered write-in votes.
- <p>Source: Elections Research Center, Washington, D.C.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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