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Us presidential elections throughout history. An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the us. Not many elections in us history come closer than richard nixon v.

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. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. We may not know donald trump versus joe biden result on the night of november 3.

A quick history of delayed us election results sure it could happen. Brett welchershutterstock nixon v. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election.

The election results from the 1960 us. Year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3. Electoral college who pledge to vote for a specific political partys nominee for president.

Federal election commission resources. States or in washington dc cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college. It seems like the history of results being announced on election night or near to it starts in 1848the first time.

These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. Presidential election on display at the john f kennedy presidential library and museum boston massachusetts. This page links to the results of those historical elections including a larger map results and synopsis of the race.

The election of the president and the vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the fifty us. To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page see this historical elections timeline. In 1960 nixon narrowly lost the.

The following is a table of united states presidential election results by state. In a united states presidential election the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and washington dc. The candidate who gets 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.

The federal election commission releases the official results of federal elections. These reports are run by state every two years and are available for elections from 1982 to 2016.