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1800 United States presidential electionThomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied at 73 electoral votes each, and the Federalist-controlled House needed 36 ballots, ending on February 17, 1801, to choose Jefferson. The deadlock led to the Twelfth Amendment, which has electors vote separately for president and vice president.
The deeper shift…0 - 2
1828 United States presidential electionAndrew Jackson won 56 percent of the vote and beat John Quincy Adams 178 electoral votes to 83, reversing the 1824 contest that Jackson insisted a "corrupt bargain" had taken from him.
The realignment lies in the coalition behind him. Jackson's backers, including the old Crawford Republicans that…0 - 3
1860 United States presidential electionAbraham Lincoln won about 40 percent of the popular vote and 180 electoral votes in a four-way race, and he did it without a single Southern state. The Democrats had split between Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge, and John Bell's Constitutional Union ticket ran as well.
The result made the…0 - 4
1896 United States presidential electionWilliam McKinley beat William Jennings Bryan 271 electoral votes to 176 in a campaign fought over money itself. Bryan, running for both the Democrats and the Populists, wanted free silver; McKinley stood for the gold standard and the tariff.
McKinley's coalition of businessmen, professionals,…0 - 5
1928 United States presidential electionHerbert Hoover beat Al Smith 444 electoral votes to 87, which on the totals looks like a routine Republican year. The realignment sits beneath them. Smith, the Catholic, anti-Prohibition governor of New York and the first Catholic nominated by a major party, lost Texas, Florida, Virginia, North…0 - 6
1932 United States presidential electionFranklin D. Roosevelt took 57 percent of the popular vote, 472 electoral votes and 42 of the 48 states as voters turned on Herbert Hoover over the Depression. Roosevelt called for "a new deal for the American people" without yet spelling out the programs that would carry the name.
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1964 United States presidential electionLyndon Johnson won 61.1 percent of the popular vote and 486 electoral votes, carrying 44 states and the District of Columbia. On its face it was a Democratic landslide, and it led to Medicare, Medicaid and the War on Poverty.
The map tells a second story. Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the…0 - 8
1968 United States presidential electionRichard Nixon won 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191, with George Wallace's segregationist American Independent campaign taking 46, and Nixon's popular margin over Humphrey was under one percentage point. It came in a year of assassinations, riots and violent clashes at the Democratic…0 - 9
1980 United States presidential electionRonald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter 489 electoral votes to 49 and 51 percent to 41 in the popular vote, with John Anderson's independent run drawing under 7 percent. In the same election Republicans won control of the Senate for the first time in 28 years.
The voters who moved are why it belongs here.…0