Presidential Elections: 1916 - 1976

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1916 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Woodrow Wilson	Thomas Marshall	Democrat	49.2%	52.2%
Charles Hughes	Charles Fairbanks	Republican	46.1%	47.8%
Allan Benson	George Kirkpatrick	Socialist	3.2%	0%
James Hanly	Ira Landrith	Prohibition	1.2%	0%

1920 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Warren Harding	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	60.3%	76.1%
James Cox	Franklin Roosevelt	Democrat	34.2%	23.9%
Eugene Debs	Seymore Stedman	Socialist	3.4%	0%
Parley Christiansen	Maximilian Hayes	Farmer-Labor	0%	0%
Aaron Watkins	David Colvin	Prohibition	0.7%	0%

1924 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Calvin Coolidge	Charles Dawes	Republican	54.0%	71.9%
John Davis	Charles Bryan	Democrat	28.8%	25.6%
Robert LaFollette	Burton Wheeler	Progressive	16.6%	2.5%

1928 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Herbert Hoover	Charles Curtis	Republican	58.2%	83.6%
Alfred Smith	Joseph Robinson	Democrat	40.8%	16.4%
Normal Thomas	James Maurer	Socialist	0.7%	0%

1932 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Franklin Roosevelt	John Garner	Democrat	57.4%	88.9%
Herbert Hoover	Charles Curtis	Republican	39.7%	11.1%
Normal Thomas	James Maurer	Socialist	2.2%	0%
William Foster	James Ford	Communist	0.3%	0%

1936 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Franklin Roosevelt	John Garner	Democrat	60.8%	98.4%
Alfred Landon	Frank Knox	Republican	36.6%	1.5%
William Lemke	Thomas O'Brian	Union	2.0%	0%
Norman Thomas	George Nelson	Socialist	0.4%	0%

1940 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Franklin Roosevelt	Henry Wallace	Democrat	54.7%	84.6%
Wendell Willkie	Charles McNary	Republican	44.8%	15.4%

1944 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Franklin Roosevelt	Harry Truman	Democrat	53.4%	81.4%
Thomas Dewey	John Bricker	Republican	45.9%	18.6%

1948 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Harry Truman	Alben Barkley	Democrat	49.6%	57.1%
Thomas Dewey	Earl Warren	Republican	45.1%	35.6%
J. Strom Thurmond	Fielding Wright	States' Rights	2.4%	0%
Henry Wallace	Glen Taylor	Progressive	2.4%	0%
Norman Thomas	Tucker Smith	Socialist	0.3%	0%

1952 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Dwight Eisenhower	Richard Nixon	Republican	55.2%	83.2%
Adlai Stevenson	John Sparkman	Democrat	44.3%	16.8%

1956 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Dwight Eisenhower	Richard Nixon	Republican	57.4%	86.1%
Adlai Stevenson	Estes Kefauver	Democrat	42.0%	13.8%

1960 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
John Kennedy	Lyndon Johnson	Democrat	49.7%	56.4%
Richard Nixon	Henry Lodge	Republican	49.6%	40.8%

1964 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Lyndon Johnson	Hubert Humphrey	Democrat	61.1%	90.3%
Barry Goldwater	William Miller	Republican	38.5%	9.7%

1968 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Richard Nixon	Spiro Agnew	Republican	43.4%	56.0%
Hubert Humphrey	Edmund Muskie	Democrat	42.7%	35.5%
George Wallace	Curtis LeMay	American Independent	13.5%	8.5%

1972 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Richard Nixon	Spiro Agnew	Republican	60.7%	96.7%
George McGovern	R. Sargent Shriver	Democrat	42.7%	3.2%
John Hospers	Theodora Nathan	Libertarian	0.0%	0.2%
John Schmitz	Thomas Anderson	American	1.4%	0%

1976 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
James Carter	Walter Mondale	Democrat	50.1%	55.2%
Gerald Ford	Robert Dole	Republican	48.0%	44.6%
Eugene McCarthy		Independent	0.9%	0%

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