The History of US Presidential Elections 1789 - 2020

See the electoral map results of every election for the President of the United States from the first one in 1788/89 to the most recent election of 2020.

Music used:
"Americana" by Kevin MacLeod

[parkpark]

I love the unique globe map structure that goes away from the standard Mercator Projection and its variants, while still providing statistical info. I feel that, especially on YT, these two don't mix often enough. Well done!

[iamseamonkey]

2:39 on Christmas that year someone asked Reagan what he wanted for Christmas. he responded "Minnesota would have been nice"

[AnonymousFreakYT]

One important thing to note - in the first few elections, 50% was the highest possible electoral vote percent. In the current system, electoral voters vote for president and Vice President separately. For the first few elections (through 1800, changed for 1804, ) each elector voted twice, the top vote getter was president, the second-place vote getter was VP. You weren't allowed to repeat a name, so the maximum possible vote was 50%. That means both of Washington's terms, he was elected unanimously. Effectively a 100% vote.

Also. note that "popular vote" was completely irrelevant early on - it wasn't until 1880 that every state used popular vote winner to determine electoral votes.

[Infrared]

It's interesting to see how polarized we've become. It used to be where one election, 47 states would vote one way, and the next election would have like 45 states vote the other way. Since 2000, only a handful of states get traded now, as states sorta cement themselves.

[thebarber]

1:10 Mclellan: I didn't lose, i merely fail to win!

[peteranderson]

George Clinton picked up no electoral college votes in 1808. His primary platform was based on changing the Constitution to replace Congress with Parliament-Funkadelic, which at the time was a less popular platform than it is today.

[blackice]

When we resurrecting FDR for a fifth term?

[chrismoderate]

If you speed through by tapping forward by five seconds and look at the numbers of voters, the voter growth is just crazy!

[rj]

Nice video can you try to do this for other countries as well?

[NormalChannel]

It's annoying when one state decides to be the odd1out when ALMOST all of the US choses for one side.

[mdalie]

It's interesting to see it in this way. I always thought the swapover of republican and democrat voterbase between north and south happened very gradually. From the map however it seems that it was really after Reagan that this change suddenly happened.

[Urlocallordandsavior]

You know what's sad? When your country's largest election turnouts have all been in the 19th century...

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Ugh, I really hope we break the two party grip on America

[Talinight]

1896: William lost to William
1900: William lost to William
1908: William lost to William

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

You can really see how much the parties flipped. The south went from being solid democratic to solid republican. Democrats won VA and GA last year by doing well with suburban voters.

[pyrosianheir]

Re-upload? Well, guess I need to re-watch and like, all that stuff.

[scottwarthin]

US should have mandated civic/Constitution course for every academic year, public or otherwise. THIS video should be required viewing in such a school class.

[rayanm]

We need a video about how the german army soldiers were pooping at ww2 thank you

[wepmasters]

1:07 hrm looks kinda divided north and south. Hope nothing bad happens…

[obitwokenobi]

A visual representation of the gradual polarization of U.S. politics.