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  1. Historical Timeline. View the electoral map for any prior presidential election. Click or tap any of the maps for a more detailed narrative of that election and a link to an interactive version where you can change history.

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  2. Nov 2, 2012 · Listed here are the presidential election maps for each the past eleven elections spanning1968 to 2012. The maps show the breakdown of electoral college votes by state. In each election, there are 538 electoral votes and 270 is needed to win.

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    • Overview
    • Election of 1789
    • Election of 1792
    • Election of 1800
    • Election of 1808
    • Election of 1820
    • Election of 1824

    The president of the United States is elected every four years by way of the electoral college, a system devised by the creators of the Constitution that today requires a candidate to secure at least 270 electoral votes from the states to win. That means the history of presidential elections is one best told through maps.

    On February 4, 1789, George Washington was unanimously chosen to be the first president of the United States.

    In December 1792, electors from 15 states voted George Washington to his second term as president.

    Incumbent John Adams once again ran against Thomas Jefferson in 1800. Electoral voters tied, which meant that the House of Representatives would decide the election; it chose Jefferson.

    After Thomas Jefferson chose not to run for a third term, his fellow Democratic-Republican James Madison defeated Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in 1808.

    James Monroe had no opponents in 1820; he was thus elected to a second term.

    Although Andrew Jackson received the most electoral votes in 1824, John Quincy Adams was chosen president by the House of Representatives.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia, defeated incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford in a narrow victory. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated, as ...

  5. Jan 19, 2021 · With this map of U.S. presidential voting history by state, discover patterns that have emerged over the last twelve elections.

  6. May 1, 2021 · United States presidential election maps - Wikimedia Commons. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: In the United States, the president is elected through the electoral college system. Presidential elections take place every four years. Contents. 1 SVG. 2 PNG. SVG. 1789. 1792. 1796. 1800. 1804. 1808. 1812. 1816. 1820. 1824.

  7. This page links to the results of those historical elections, including a larger map, results and synopsis of the race. An interactive version of each map is also available, letting you change history. To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page, see this historical elections timeline.

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