1789 George Washington No party designation The presidential election of 1789 was an uncontested election with General Washington the only candidate for president. 1792 George Washington No party designation 1796 John Adams Federalist Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican For the first time in American history, candidates from two opposing political parties ran for president. 1800 Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr Democratic-Republican John Adams Federalist A tie between Jefferson and Burr forced the House of Representatives to vote to determine the outcome, Burr became vice president. 1804 Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Charles C. Pinckney Federalist 1808 James Madison Democratic-Republican Charles C. Pinckney Federalist 1812 James Madison Democratic-Republican DeWitt Clinton Federalist This was the first presidential election held in wartime. 1816 James Monroe Democratic-Republican Rufus King Federalist 1820 James Monroe Democratic-Republican A weakened Federalist Party did not run a candidate against Monroe. 1824 John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican Henry Clay Democratic-Republican William Crawford Democratic-Republican Andrew Jackson Democratic-Republican Because no candidate received half of the electoral votes, the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Although Jackson won the greatest number of popular and electoral votes, the House selected John Quincy Adams in a controversial decision. 1828 Andrew Jackson Democrat John Quincy Adams National Republican Jackson's supporters formed the basis of the modern Democratic Party. His opponents were called the National Republicans. 1832 Andrew Jackson Democrat Henry Clay National Republican 1836 Martin Van Buren Democrat William H. Harrison Whig W. P. Mangum Whig Daniel Webster Whig Hugh White Whig 1840 William H. Harrison Whig Martin Van Buren Democrat This was the first election in which a candidate, William Henry Harrison, spoke on his own behalf. One month after his inauguration, Harrison became the first president to die in office. Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency, thereby establishing a precedent that eventually became law. 1844 James K. Polk Democrat Henry Clay Whig James Birney Liberty From 1840 to1848, the Liberty Party brought antislavery concerns to national attention. It ceased to exist by 1848. 1848 Zachary Taylor Whig Lewis Cass Democrat Martin Van Buren Free-Soiler The Free-Soil Party was founded by former Liberty Party members and others who were opposed to slavery. 1852 Franklin Pierce Democrat Winfield Scott Whig John P. Hale Free-Soiler 1856 James Buchanan Democrat John C. Fremont Republican Millard Fillmore American, or Know-Nothing In 1854, a coalition of Whigs and other opponents to the spread of slavery into the nation's territories formed the modern Republican Party, which fielded noted explorer Fremont as its first presidential candidate. 1860 Abraham Lincoln Republican Stephen Douglas Democrat John Bell Constitutional Union John Breckinridge Southern Democrat Lincoln won the election in a landslide of the Northern states; Southern states responded by seceding from the Union. Five months later, the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter, and the Civil War began. 1864 Abraham Lincoln Republican, or Grand Union George B. McClellan Democrat To appeal to Democrats who supported the Union, the Republican Party assumed the name of Grand Union Party. Soon after his second inauguration, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated. 1868 Ulysses S. Grant Republican Horatio Seymour Democrat 1872 Ulysses S. Grant Republican Horace Greeley Democrat and Liberal Republican In 1872, Greeley ran as the candidate of both the Liberal Republicans, a faction of the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party. With the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), African-American males voted in a presidential election for the first time. 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Samuel J. Tilden Democrat Tilden won the popular vote, but the authenticity of twenty electoral votes was questioned. A congressional deadlock ensued, and Hayes was declared the winner by a special commission on March 2, 1877. 1880 James A. Garfield Republican Winfield S. Hancock Democrat Only 10,000 votes separated the Democratic and Republican candidates. Vice President Chester Arthur became president upon Garfield's assassination in 1881. 1884 Grover Cleveland Democrat James G. Blaine Republican 1888 Benjamin Harrison Republican Grover Cleveland Democrat Cleveland won the popular vote by a narrow margin but had only 168 electoral votes to Harrison's 233. This election was the last in which the electoral college overturned the popular vote until the 2000 election. 1892 Grover Cleveland Democrat Benjamin Harrison Republican This is the only time a president has won a nonconsecutive second term. 1896 William McKinley Republican William Jennings Bryan Democrat 1900 William McKinley Republican William Jennings Bryan Democrat Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became president upon McKinley's assassination in 1901. 1904 Theodore Roosevelt Republican Alton B. Parker Democrat 1908 William Howard Taft Republican William Jennings Bryan Democrat 1912 Woodrow Wilson Democrat Theodore Roosevelt Progressive, or Bull Moose William Howard Taft Republican After a failed attempt at the Republican nomination, Roosevelt accepted the nomination of a Republican faction, the Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party. 1916 Woodrow Wilson Democrat Charles Evans Hughes Republican 1920 Warren G. Harding Republican James M. Cox Democrat With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), women voted in a presidential election for the first time. 1924 Calvin Coolidge Republican John W. Davis Democrat 1928 Herbert Hoover Republican Alfred E. Smith Democrat 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat Herbert Hoover Republican 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat Alfred M. Landon Republican Roosevelt carried every state except Vermont and Maine. 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat Wendell Willkie Republican Roosevelt was the only president to run for a third term. This broke George Washington's precedent of a self-imposed two-term limit. In 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment limited all presidencies to two terms. 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat Thomas E. Dewey Republican A year after his overwhelming victory in his fourth bid for the presidency, Roosevelt died in office. Harry S. Truman, Roosevelt's third vice president, became president. 1948 Harry S. Truman Democrat Thomas E. Dewey Republican On the morning after Election Day, a victorious Truman held up a newspaper with the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Adlai E. Stevenson Democrat 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Adlai E. Stevenson Democrat 1960 John F. Kennedy Democrat Richard M. Nixon Republican Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became president upon Kennedy's assassination in 1963. 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson Democrat Barry M. Goldwater Republican 1968 Richard M. Nixon Republican Hubert H. Humphrey Democrat 1972 Richard M. Nixon Republican George McGovern Democrat Vice President Gerald R. Ford became president upon Nixon's resignation in 1974. 1976 Jimmy Carter Democrat Gerald R. Ford Republican 1980 Ronald Reagan Republican Jimmy Carter Democrat 1984 Ronald Reagan Republican Walter F. Mondale Democrat 1988 George H. Bush Republican Michael S. Dukakis Democrat 1992 William J. Clinton Democrat George H. Bush Republican 1996 William J. Clinton Democrat Robert J. Dole Republican 2000 George W. Bush Republican Albert A. Gore Democrat Gore won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote after the Supreme Court voted to halt a ballot recount in Florida. Footnote: Between 1824 and 1892, fifty percent of the winning candidates were "minority" presidents, elected by a plurality rather than a majority of the popular vote.