| Term | Year | Electoral College | Party | Pct. of | Margin | Pop. vote | Margin | Electoral College | Party | Voter turnout |
| winner | pop. vote | (pct.) | runner-up | |||||||
| 10 | 1824 | John Quincy Adams | Democratic-Republican | 30.92% | −10.44% | 113,142 | −38,221 | Andrew Jackson | Democratic-Republican | 26.90% |
| 11 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson | Jacksonian | 55.93% | 12.25% | 642,806 | 140,839 | John Quincy Adams | National Republican | 57.60% |
| 12 | 1832 | Andrew Jackson | Jacksonian | 54.74% | 17.81% | 702,735 | 228,628 | Henry Clay | National Republican | 55.40% |
| 13 | 1836 | Martin Van Buren | Democratic | 50.79% | 14.20% | 763,291 | 213,384 | William Henry Harrison | Whig | 57.80% |
| 14 | 1840 | William Henry Harrison | Whig | 52.87% | 6.05% | 1,275,583 | 145,938 | Martin Van Buren | Democratic | 80.20% |
| 15 | 1844 | James Polk | Democratic | 49.54% | 1.45% | 1,339,570 | 39,413 | Henry Clay | Whig | 78.90% |
| 16 | 1848 | Zachary Taylor | Whig | 47.28% | 4.79% | 1,360,235 | 137,882 | Lewis Cass | Democratic | 72.70% |
| 17 | 1852 | Franklin Pierce | Democratic | 50.83% | 6.95% | 1,605,943 | 219,525 | Winfield Scott | Whig | 69.60% |
| 18 | 1856 | James Buchanan | Democratic | 45.29% | 12.20% | 1,835,140 | 494,472 | John Frémont | Republican | 78.90% |
| 19 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican | 39.65% | 10.13% | 1,855,993 | 474,049 | John Breckinridge | Democratic | 81.20% |
| 20 | 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican | 55.03% | 10.08% | 2,211,317 | 405,090 | George McClellan | Democratic | 73.80% |
| 21 | 1868 | Ulysses Grant | Republican | 52.66% | 5.32% | 3,013,790 | 304,810 | Horatio Seymour | Democratic | 78.10% |
| 22 | 1872 | Ulysses Grant | Republican | 55.58% | 11.80% | 3,597,439 | 763,729 | Horace Greeley | Liberal Republican | 71.30% |
| 23 | 1876 | Rutherford Hayes | Republican | 47.92% | −3.00% | 4,034,142 | −252,666 | Samuel Tilden | Democratic | 81.80% |
| 24 | 1880 | James Garfield | Republican | 48.31% | 0.09% | 4,453,337 | 1,898 | Winfield Scott Hancock | Democratic | 79.40% |
| 25 | 1884 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 48.85% | 0.57% | 4,914,482 | 57,579 | James Blaine | Republican | 77.50% |
| 26 | 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | Republican | 47.80% | −0.83% | 5,443,633 | −94,530 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 79.30% |
| 27 | 1892 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 46.02% | 3.01% | 5,553,898 | 363,099 | Benjamin Harrison | Republican | 74.70% |
| 28 | 1896 | William McKinley | Republican | 51.02% | 4.31% | 7,112,138 | 601,331 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 79.30% |
| 29 | 1900 | William McKinley | Republican | 51.64% | 6.12% | 7,228,864 | 857,932 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 73.20% |
| 30 | 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | Republican | 56.42% | 18.83% | 7,630,557 | 2,546,677 | Alton Brooks Parker | Democratic | 65.20% |
| 31 | 1908 | William Taft | Republican | 51.57% | 8.53% | 7,678,335 | 1,269,356 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 65.40% |
| 32 | 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 41.84% | 14.44% | 6,296,284 | 2,173,563 | Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive | 58.80% |
| 33 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 49.24% | 3.12% | 9,126,868 | 578,140 | Charles Evans Hughes | Republican | 61.60% |
| 34 | 1920 | Warren Harding | Republican | 60.32% | 26.17% | ######## | 7,004,432 | James Cox | Democratic | 49.20% |
| 35 | 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | Republican | 54.04% | 25.22% | ######## | 7,337,547 | John Davis | Democratic | 48.90% |
| 36 | 1928 | Herbert Hoover | Republican | 58.21% | 17.41% | ######## | 6,411,659 | Al Smith | Democratic | 56.90% |
| 37 | 1932 | Franklin Roosevelt | Democratic | 57.41% | 17.76% | ######## | 7,060,023 | Herbert Hoover | Republican | 56.90% |
| 38 | 1936 | Franklin Roosevelt | Democratic | 60.80% | 24.26% | ######## | ######## | Alf Landon | Republican | 61.00% |
| 39 | 1940 | Franklin Roosevelt | Democratic | 54.74% | 9.96% | ######## | 4,966,201 | Wendell Willkie | Republican | 62.50% |
| 40 | 1944 | Franklin Roosevelt | Democratic | 53.39% | 7.50% | ######## | 3,594,987 | Thomas Dewey | Republican | 55.90% |
| 41 | 1948 | Harry Truman | Democratic | 49.55% | 4.48% | ######## | 2,188,055 | Thomas Dewey | Republican | 53.00% |
| 42 | 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower | Republican | 55.18% | 10.85% | ######## | 6,700,439 | Adlai Stevenson | Democratic | 63.30% |
| 43 | 1956 | Dwight Eisenhower | Republican | 57.37% | 15.40% | ######## | 9,551,152 | Adlai Stevenson | Democratic | 60.60% |
| 44 | 1960 | John Kennedy | Democratic | 49.72% | 0.17% | ######## | 112,827 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 62.77% |
| 45 | 1964 | Lyndon Johnson | Democratic | 61.05% | 22.58% | ######## | ######## | Barry Goldwater | Republican | 61.92% |
| 46 | 1968 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 43.42% | 0.70% | ######## | 511,944 | Hubert Humphrey | Democratic | 60.84% |
| 47 | 1972 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 60.67% | 23.15% | ######## | ######## | George McGovern | Democratic | 55.21% |
| 48 | 1976 | Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 50.08% | 2.06% | ######## | 1,683,247 | Gerald Ford | Republican | 53.55% |
| 49 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan | Republican | 50.75% | 9.74% | ######## | 8,423,115 | Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 52.56% |
| 50 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan | Republican | 58.77% | 18.21% | ######## | ######## | Walter Mondale | Democratic | 53.11% |
| 51 | 1988 | George H.W. Bush | Republican | 53.37% | 7.72% | ######## | 7,077,121 | Michael Dukakis | Democratic | 50.15% |
| 52 | 1992 | Bill Clinton | Democratic | 43.01% | 5.56% | ######## | 5,805,256 | George H.W. Bush | Republican | 55.23% |
| 53 | 1996 | Bill Clinton | Democratic | 49.23% | 8.51% | ######## | 8,201,370 | Bob Dole | Republican | 49.08% |
| 54 | 2000 | George W. Bush | Republican | 47.87% | −0.51% | ######## | −543,816 | Al Gore | Democratic | 51.30% |
| 55 | 2004 | George W. Bush | Republican | 50.73% | 2.46% | ######## | 3,012,171 | John Kerry | Democratic | 55.27% |
| 56 | 2008 | Barack Obama | Democratic | 52.93% | 7.27% | ######## | 9,550,193 | John McCain | Republican | 57.48% |
| 57 | 2012 | Barack Obama | Democratic | 51.06% | 3.86% | ######## | 4,982,296 | Mitt Romney | Republican | 57.50% |
