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Republican Party presidential election history

The Republican Party in U.S. presidential elections: 43 nominees from 1856 to 2024, 25 won the presidency.

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Republican nominee's share of the national popular vote (%)
YearNomineeRunning mateElectoral votesPopular voteShareStatesResult
2024 Donald J. Trump J.D. Vance 312 77,303,568 49.8% 31 Won
2020 Donald J. Trump Mike Pence 232 74,216,728 46.9% 25 Lost
2016 Donald J. Trump Mike Pence 306 62,955,340 46.2% 30 Won
2012 Mitt Romney Paul Ryan 206 60,932,152 47.2% 24 Lost
2008 John McCain Sarah Palin 173 59,934,814 45.7% 22 Lost
2004 George W. Bush Richard Cheney 286 62,040,610 50.7% 31 Won
2000 George W. Bush Richard Cheney 271 50,455,156 47.9% 30 Won
1996 Robert Dole Jack Kemp 159 39,198,755 40.7% 19 Lost
1992 George H. W. Bush Dan Quayle 168 39,103,882 37.4% 18 Lost
1988 George H. W. Bush Dan Quayle 426 48,886,097 53.4% 40 Won
1984 Ronald Reagan George Bush 525 54,455,075 58.8% 49 Won
1980 Ronald Reagan George Bush 489 43,904,153 50.7% 44 Won
1976 Gerald R. Ford Robert Dole 240 39,147,793 48.0% 27 Lost
1972 Richard M. Nixon Spiro Agnew 520 47,169,911 60.7% 49 Won
1968 Richard M. Nixon Spiro Agnew 301 31,785,480 43.4% 32 Won
1964 Barry Goldwater William E. Miller 52 27,178,188 38.5% 6 Lost
1960 Richard M. Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge 219 34,108,157 49.5% 26 Lost
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon 457 35,590,472 57.4% 41 Won
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon 442 33,777,945 54.9% 39 Won
1948 Thomas E. Dewey Earl Warren 189 21,970,064 45.1% 16 Lost
1944 Thomas E. Dewey John W. Bricker 99 22,014,160 45.9% 12 Lost
1940 Wendell L. Willkie Charles L. McNary 82 22,334,940 44.8% 10 Lost
1936 Alfred M. Landon Frank Knox 8 16,679,683 36.5% 2 Lost
1932 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis 59 15,760,425 39.6% 6 Lost
1928 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis 444 21,432,823 58.2% 40 Won
1924 Calvin Coolidge Charles G. Dawes 382 15,724,310 54.0% 35 Won
1920 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge 404 16,151,916 60.3% 37 Won
1916 Charles E. Hughes Charles W. Fairbanks 254 8,547,030 46.1% 18 Lost
1912 William Howard Taft Nicholas Butler 8 3,486,343 23.2% 2 Lost
1908 William Howard Taft James S. Sherman 321 7,676,598 51.6% 29 Won
1904 Theodore Roosevelt Charles Fairbanks 336 7,625,599 56.4% 32 Won
1900 William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt 292 7,219,193 51.7% 28 Won
1896 William McKinley Garret Hobart 271 7,105,076 51.1% 23 Won
1892 Benjamin Harrison Whitelaw Reid 145 5,186,793 43.0% 16 Lost
1888 Benjamin Harrison Levi Morton 233 5,449,825 47.8% 20 Won
1884 James G. Blaine John Logan 182 4,852,916 48.2% 18 Lost
1880 James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur 214 4,453,611 48.3% 19 Won
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes William Wheeler 185 4,033,497 48.0% 20 Won
1872 Ulysses S. Grant Henry Wilson 286 3,598,468 55.6% 31 Won
1868 Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax 214 3,013,650 52.7% 25 Won
1864 Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson 212 2,220,846 55.1% 22 Won
1860 Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin 180 1,867,198 39.8% 18 Won
1856 John C. Fremont William L. Dayton 114 1,342,345 33.1% 11 Lost

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data