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Political Party Platforms of Parties
Receiving Electoral Votes
1840 - 2016

Year	Party (link to document)		Nominee	Electoral Votes	# Words

2016	Democratic	pdf	Hillary Clinton	--	26,058
2016	Republican	pdf	Donald Trump	--	35,467

2012	Democratic	pdf	Barack Obama	332	26,558
2012	Republican	pdf	Mitt Romney	206	30,563

2008	Democratic	pdf	Barack Obama	365	25,997
2008	Republican	pdf	John McCain	173	23,585

2004	Democratic	pdf	John F. Kerry	251	17,751
2004	Republican	pdf	George W. Bush	286	41,156

2000	Democratic		Albert Gore, Jr.	266	24,220
2000	Republican		George W. Bush	271	34,555

1996	Democratic		William J. Clinton	379	18,107
1996	Republican		Robert Dole	159	27,817

1992	Democratic		William J. Clinton	370	8,555
1992	Republican		George Bush	168	28,531

1988	Democratic		Michael Dukakis	111	4,838
1988	Republican		George Bush	426	35,838

1984	Democratic		Walter F. Mondale	13	37,231
1984	Republican		Ronald Reagan	525	27,383

1980	Democratic		Jimmy Carter	49	38,180
1980	Republican		Ronald Reagan	489	34,558

1976	Democratic		Jimmy Carter	297	21,202
1976	Republican		Gerald R. Ford	240	20,463

1972	Democratic		George McGovern	17	25,615
	Libertarian		John Hospers	1	2,542
	Republican		Richard Nixon	520	24,407

1968	American Independent		George Wallace	45	12,818
	Democratic		Hubert H. Humphrey	191	16,791
	Republican		Richard Nixon	301	10,013

1964	Democratic		Lyndon B. Johnson	486	20,126
1964	Republican		Barry Goldwater	52	8,740

1960	Democratic		John F. Kennedy	303	16,098
1960	Republican		Richard Nixon	219	10,680

1956	Democratic		Adlai Stevenson	73	12,839
1956	Republican		Dwight D. Eisenhower	457	11,390

1952	Democratic		Adlai Stevenson	89	8,878
1952	Republican		Dwight D. Eisenhower	442	5,988

1948	Democratic		Harry S. Truman	303	4,256
	Republican		Thomas E. Dewey	189	2,739
	States' Rights		Strom Thurmond	39	495

1944	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	432	1,366
1944	Republican		Thomas E. Dewey	99	4,216

1940	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	449	4,667
1940	Republican		Wendell L. Willkie	82	3,284

1936	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	523	2,310
1936	Republican		Alfred M. Landon	8	3,030

1932	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	472	1,489
1932	Republican		Herbert Hoover	59	7,832

1928	Democratic		Alfred E. Smith	87	5,613
1928	Republican		Herbert Hoover	444	7,401

1924	Democratic		John W. Davis	136	5,819
	Progressive		Robert LaFollette	13	2,004
	Republican		Calvin Coolidge	382	5,227

1920	Democratic		James M. Cox	127	7,118
1920	Republican		Warren G. Harding	404	6,391

1916	Democratic		Woodrow Wilson	277	4,570
1916	Republican		Charles E. Hughes	254	2,377

1912	Democratic		Woodrow Wilson	435	4,696
	Progressive		Theodore Roosevelt	88	4,693
	Republican		William Howard Taft	8	3,393

1908	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	162	4,555
1908	Republican		William Howard Taft	321	4,092

1904	Democratic		Alton B. Parker	140	3,058
1904	Republican		Theodore Roosevelt	336	2,254

1900	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	155	2,580
1900	Republican		William McKinley	292	2,299

1896	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	176	1,929
1896	Republican		William McKinley	271	1,933

1892	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	277	2,510
	Populist		James B. Weaver	22	1,488
	Republican		Benjamin Harrison	145	1,342

1888	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	168	1,379
1888	Republican		Benjamin Harrison	233	2,391

1884	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	219	2,695
1884	Republican		James G. Blane	182	1,538

1880	Democratic		Winfield S. Hancock	155	692
1880	Republican		James A. Garfield	214	1,471

1876	Democratic		Samuel Tilden	184	1,867
1876	Republican		Rutherford B. Hayes	185	1,363

1872	Democratic		Horace Greeley	66*	633
1872	Republican		Ulysses S. Grant	286	1,270

1868	Democratic		Horatio Seymour	80	1,422
1868	Republican		Ulysses S. Grant	214	924

1864	Democratic		George McClellan	21	506
1864	Republican		Abraham Lincoln	212	895

1860	Constitutional Union		John Bell	39	211
	Democratic		Stephen Douglas	12	372
	Republican		Abraham Lincoln	180	1,194
	Southern Democratic		John Breckenridge	72	363

1856	Democratic		James Buchanan	174	2,433
	Republican		John C. Fremont	114	952
	Whig		Millard Fillmore	8	566

1852	Democratic		Franklin Pierce	254	1,367
1852	Whig		Winfield Scott	42	650

1848	Democratic		Lewis Cass	127	1,865
1848	Whig		Zachary Taylor	163	784

1844	Democratic		James K. Polk	170	938
1844	Whig		Henry Clay	105	357

1840	Democratic		Martin Van Buren	60	536

* Horace Greeley died on November 29, 1872, between the date the popular votes were cast and the electoral votes were cast. 63 of his electoral votes were cast for other Democrats, while 3 were cast posthumously for Greeley. Word counts include the preamble (if any). Excluded is the table of contents, list of committee members, and any dedication material before the preamble. Dedication material included within, or after the preamble, is included. Microsoft Word was used to compute word counts. Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Political Party Platforms of Parties Receiving Electoral Votes." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2016. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/platforms.php. Media That Have Cited This Data: • The Washington Post—"What Republicans and Democrats Have Disagreed On, from 1856 to Today" by Ted Mellnik, Chris Alcantara and Kevin Uhrmacher. July 15, 2016

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