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United States presidential election, 1980

← 1976 November 4, 1980 1984 →

All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout52.6%
 
Nominee Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter John B. Anderson
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Home state California Georgia Illinois
Running mate George H. W. Bush Walter Mondale Patrick Lucey
Electoral vote 324 170 14
States carried 31 18 + DC 1
Popular vote 39,903,230 39,480,115 9,319,850
Percentage 44.7% 44.5% 11.6%

1980 was an election to show that people had been ready for a change in power. Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976 on a campaign of telling the truth and as it turned out, the truth was not what people had been ready for and as a result, ended up losing a relative landslide and giving Reagan a victory in the electoral college.


United States presidential election, 1992

← 1988 November 3, 1992 1996 →

All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout55.2%
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Nominee Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush Ken Ichijouji
Party Democratic Republican Reform
Home state Arkansas Texas Minnesota
Running mate Al Gore Dan Quayle Todd Robinson
Electoral vote 359 147 32
States carried 29 + DC 13 8
Popular vote 42,109,806 42,104,550 20,943,821
Percentage 40.1% 40.1% 19.8%

1992 was an important election for reasons that it was a realigning one, a close one, and one with three major candidates. It remains the second to last time a third party candidate won at least one state. It also remains the closest closest popular vote contest in history behind only 1880. Despite this, the candidacy of third party candidate Ken ended up destroying Bush's chances of winning and by default, giving the election to Bill Clinton.


United States presidential election, 2012

← 2008 November 6, 2012 2016 →

All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
 
Nominee Barack Obama Mitt Romney Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican Party (United States) Independent
Home state Illinois Massachusetts New York
Running mate Joe Biden Paul Ryan Gary Johnson
Electoral vote 228 306 4
States carried 19 + DC 30 1
Popular vote 48,100,000 55,900,000 25,900,795
Percentage 37.7% 43.0% 18.9%

President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Mitt Romney
Republican

2012 is to date the last election in which a third party candidate won at least one state and the last until 1932 in which a candidate was elected with less than 50 percent of the popular vote. This is also the start to a streak for the republicans, who won every election from 2012 to 2032, only losing again in 2036. In reality however, this was an election to show that people were upset with both parties and the running of Donald Trump showed that and not only did he pick up the state of Idaho, he managed to win around 150 counties (5 percent of the nations whole), an average of three per state and a couple of congressional districts and came in second in six states he did not win. Trump was the only candidate to win at least one county in each state of the country.