Us Presidential Elections Results History. An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. The results of this election prompted Congress to pass the 12th amendment which made voting for the President and Vice President separate acts.
Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political partys nominee for 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. Alexander Hamilton the Treasury Secretary campaigned for Thomas Jefferson.
Of the 58 presidential elections in the history of the United States 53 of the winners took both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
In each case the losing candidate and party dealt with the disputed results differently. Site includes election data county maps and state maps charts. In each case the losing candidate and party dealt with the disputed results differently. The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state.