Presidential Election Results Through History. To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page see. Here historian Peter Ling looks back at other controversial elections in history from Abraham Lincolns victory in 1860 to George W Bushs triumph over Al Gore in 2000 and asks what we can learn.
The elections of 1876 1888 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history. 1 In elections from 1789 to 1804 each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. Article Two of the Constitution originally established the method of presidential elections including the creation of the Electoral College the result of a compromise between those constitutional framers who wanted the Congress to choose the president and those who preferred a national popular vote.
To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page see.
Year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3. Roosevelt won the 1936 election with 523 electoral votes while his opponent Alfred M. The candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular voteHowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president. Polling booths have closed and early results are.