Presidential ElectionsPresidential Elections& Partisan Politics& Partisan Politics

First Party SystemFirst Party SystemDemocratic-Republicans vs. FederalistsDemocratic-Republicans vs. Federalists

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1800

Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican)

John Adams (Federalist)

Thomas Jefferson (DR)

1816

James Monroe (National Republican)

James Monroe (NR)

1824

John Q. Adams (National Republican)

Andrew Jackson (National Republican)

Henry Clay (National Republican)

John Q. Adams (NR)

Second Party SystemSecond Party SystemJacksonian Democrats vs. WhigsJacksonian Democrats vs. Whigs

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1828

Andrew Jackson (Democrat)

John Quincy Adams (National Republican)

Andrew Jackson (D)

1844

James K. Polk (Democrat)

Henry Clay (Whig)

James K. Polk (D)

Third Party SystemThird Party SystemDemocrats & RepublicansDemocrats & Republicans

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1860

Abraham Lincoln (Republican)

Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat)

John Breckinridge (Southern Democrat)

John Bell (Constitutional Union)

Abraham Lincoln (R)

1876

Rutherford Hayes (Republican)

Samuel Tilden (Democrat)

Rutherford Hayes (R)

Fourth Party SystemFourth Party SystemPopulism, Progressivism & the Roaring TwentiesPopulism, Progressivism & the Roaring Twenties

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1896

William McKinley (Republican)

William J. Bryan (Democrat & Populist)

William McKinley (R)

1912

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)

Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive “Bull Moose” Republican)

William Taft (Republican)

Woodrow Wilson (D)

1916

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican)

Woodrow Wilson (D)

1920

Warren Harding (Republican)

James Cox (Democrat)

Warren G. Harding (R)

1928

Herbert Hoover (Republican)

Herbert Hoover (R)

Al Smith (Democrat)

Fifth Party SystemFifth Party SystemNew Deal LiberalismNew Deal Liberalism

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1932

Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat)

Herbert Hoover (Republican)

Franklin Roosevelt (D)

1940

Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat)

Wendell Willkie (Republican)

Franklin Roosevelt (D)

1948

Harry Truman (Democrat)

Thomas Dewey (Republican)

Strom Thurmond (Southern Democrat/ “Dixiecrat”)

Harry Truman (D)

1960

John F. Kennedy (Democrat)

Richard Nixon (Republican)

John F. Kennedy (D)

1964

Lyndon Johnson (Democrat)

Barry Goldwater (Republican)

Lyndon Johnson (D)

Sixth Party SystemSixth Party SystemRepublican ConservatismRepublican Conservatism

Year

Candidates Winner Significance

1968

Richard Nixon (Republican)

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat)

George Wallace (American Independent)

Richard Nixon (R)

1980

Ronald Reagan (Republican)

Jimmy Carter (Democrat)

John Anderson (Independent)

Ronald Reagan (R)

1992

Bill Clinton (Democrat)

Bill Clinton (D)

George H.W. Bush (Republican)

Ross Perot (Reform)

2000

George W Bush (Republican)

Al Gore (Democrat)

Ralph Nader (Green)

George W. Bush (R)

2008

Barack Obama (Democrat)

John McCain (Republican)

Barack Obama (D)

Presidential Election Turnout (by % of Voting AgePresidential Election Turnout (by % of Voting Age Population)Population)

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