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The table displayed on the provided link shows significant cyclical changes of parties in the United States of America. The candidates’ names are also cited. [Note: only includes parties who won electoral votes. Think that the Women’s Suffrage and Abolitionist Parties are missing. 3rd Parties just can’t catch a break!]
Presidential Elections, 1789–2004
For the original method of electing the president and the vice president (elections of 1789, 1792, 1796, and 1800), see Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution. The election of 1804 was the first one in which the electors voted for president and vice president on separate ballots. (See Amendment XII to the Constitution.)
| Year | Presidential candidate |
Party | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17891 | George Washington John Adams Scattering Votes not cast |
(no party) (no party) (no party) |
69 34 35 8 |
| 1792 | George Washington John Adams George Clinton Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr Votes not cast |
Federalist Federalist Anti-Federalist Anti-Federalist Anti-Federalist |
132 77 50 4 1 6 |
| 1796 | John Adams Thomas Jefferson Thomas Pinckney Aaron Burr Scattering |
Federalist Dem.-Rep. Federalist Dem.-Rep. |
71 68 59 30 48 |
| 18002 | Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr John Adams Charles C. Pinckney John Jay |
Dem.-Rep. Dem.-Rep. Federalist Federalist Federalist |
73 73 65 64 1 |
Related Info
- This post gives and idea of what it takes for a presidential candidate to get on each state ballot: Ballot Access Summary
- If you love this kind of stuff you really should subscribe to Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News
- For an outsider’s view of how ballot access in presidential politics works, try Ralph Nader’s Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President
- For the original vision of a “presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction,” try Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 by Ralph Ketcham
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