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1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916 |
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| 1876 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Red: Rutherford Hayes, Blue: Samuel Tilden, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1876 was perhaps the most disputed and intense presidential election in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York defeated Ohio's Rutherford Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes yet uncounted. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute: in three states (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina) each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal (on account of being an "elected or appointed official") and replaced. The votes were ultimately awarded to Hayes after a bitter electoral dispute. Many historians believe that an informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute. In return for Southern acquiescence in Hayes' election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction. This deal became known as the Compromise of 1877. The Compromise effectively pushed African-Americans out of power in the government; soon after the compromise, African-Americans were barred from voting by poll taxes and grandfather clauses. |
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| 1880 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Red: James Garfield, Blue: Winfield Scott Hancock, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern states. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones. Incumbent President Rutherford Hayes did not seek re-election, keeping a promise made during the 1876 campaign. The Republican Party eventually chose another Ohioan, James Abram Garfield, as their standard-bearer. The Democratic Party meanwhile chose Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock as their nominee. Despite capturing less than 10,000 more popular votes than Hancock, Garfield was easily elected, capturing 214 of the states' 369 electoral votes. It is to date the smallest popular vote victory in American history. |
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| 1884 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Blue: Grover Cleveland, Red: James Blaine, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1884 featured excessive mudslinging and personal acrimony. On November 4, 1884, New York Governor Grover Cleveland narrowly defeated Republican U.S. Senator James G. Blaine of Maine to become the first Democrat elected to the Presidency since the election of 1856, before the American Civil War. New York decided the election, awarding Governor Cleveland the state's 36 electors by a margin of just 1047 of 1,167,003 votes cast. |
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| 1888 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Red: Benjamin Harrison, Blue: Grover Cleveland, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1888 was held on November 6, 1888. Incumbent President Grover Cleveland received the greatest number of popular votes, but Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison's 233 electoral votes topped Cleveland's 168 to win the election. This marked the first time since the controversial election of 1876 that a President-elect failed to win the popular vote. |
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| 1892 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Blue: Grover Cleveland, Red: Benjamin Harrison, Light Green: James Weaver, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1892 was held on November 8, 1892. New York's Grover Cleveland returned to defeat incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only person to be elected to non-consecutive presidential terms. Cleveland, who had won the popular vote against Harrison in 1888, won both the popular and electoral vote in the rematch. Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944. Although William Jennings Bryan was nominated for a third time in 1908 it was not consecutive with his two other nominations in 1896 and 1900. |
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| 1896 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Red: William McKinley, Blue: William Jennings Bryan, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1896 saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a contest considered by historians to be the hardest fought in American history. In political science it is often considered a realigning election. McKinley forged a coalition in which businessmen, professionals, skilled workers and prosperous farmers were heavily represented; he was strongest in the Northeast. Bryan was the nominee of the Democrats, the Populists, and the Silver Republicans, and forged a coalition of outsiders that dominated the Democratic party for decades. Economic issues, including bimetallism, the gold standard, Free Silver, and the tariff, were crucial. Republican campaign manager Mark Hanna invented many modern campaign techniques, facilitated by a $3.5 million budget. He outspent Bryan by a factor of ten. The Democratic Party's repudiation of the Bourbon Democrats (their pro-business wing, represented by incumbent President Grover Cleveland), set the stage for sixteen years of Republican control of the White House, ended only by a Republican split in 1912 that resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson. |
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| 1900 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Red: William McKinley, Blue: William Jennings Bryan, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1900 was held on November 6, 1900. It was a rematch of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish-American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. |
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 Color Key: Red: Theodore Roosevelt, Blue: Alton Parker, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1904 was held on November 8, 1904. Incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican who had succeeded to the Presidency upon William McKinley's assassination, easily won a term of his own, thus becoming the first "accidental" president to do so. |
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 Color Key: Red: William Howard Taft, Blue: William Jennings Bryan, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. It was not a close race. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, anointed William Howard Taft as his successor. The Democrats nominated a candidate, William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in two previous outings against Republican William McKinley. Taft defeated Bryan in the election. |
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| 1912 presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Color Key: Blue: Woodrow Wilson, Dark Green: Theodore Roosevelt, Red: William Howard Taft, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates, two of whom had previously won election to the office. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to get the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created a new Progressive Party (nicknamed the “Bull Moose Party”). It nominated Roosevelt and ran slates for other offices in major states. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan. He defeated both Taft and Roosevelt in the general election, winning a huge majority in the Electoral College despite only winning 42% of the popular vote, and initiating the only period between 1892 and 1932 when a Democrat was elected President. Wilson was the second of only two Democrats to be elected President between 1856 and 1932. This is also the last election in which a third party candidate came in second in the Electoral College. |
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 Color Key: Blue: Woodrow Wilson, Red: Charles Hughes, Brown: Territories
Comments: The United States presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I. Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the Allied Powers due to the occupation of parts of France and Belgium by the German Empire, but most American voters wanted to avoid involvement in the war, and preferred to continue a policy of neutrality. |
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