| Year | Elected Candidate | Party | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Donald Trump | Democratic | Hillary Clinton | 96%
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| 2000 | George W. Bush | Democratic | Al Gore | 90%
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| 1812 | James Madison | Federalist | Dewitt Clinton | 89%
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| Democratic-Republican | George Clinton | 88%
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| Democratic-Republican | George Clinton | 88%
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| 2008 | Barack Obama | Republican | John McCain | 88%
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| 2012 | Barack Obama | Republican | Mitt Romney | 88%
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| 2004 | George W. Bush | Democratic | John Kerry | 87%
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| 1960 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Republican | Richard Nixon | 87%
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| 1992 | Bill Clinton | Republican | George Bush | 84%
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| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | Democratic | Jimmy Carter | 84%
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| 1789 | George Washington | Federalist* | John Adams | 83%
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| 1792 | George Washington | Federalist* | John Adams | 83%
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| Federalist | John Adams | 83%
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| 1820 | James Monroe | Independent (Federalist) | John Quincy Adams | 83%
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| 1828 | Andrew Jackson | National Republican | John Quincy Adams | 83%
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| 1796 | John Adams | Democratic-Republican* | Thomas Jefferson | 83%
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| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | Republican | Gerald Ford | 81%
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| 1996 | Bill Clinton | Republican | Robert Dole | 81%
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| 1984 | Ronald Reagan | Democratic | Walter Mondale | 78%
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| 1932 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Republican | Herbert Hoover | 74%
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| 1988 | George H. W. Bush | Democratic | Michael Dukakis | 73%
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| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | Progressive (Bull Moose) | Theodore Roosevelt | 73%
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| 1824 | John Quincy Adams | Democratic-Republican | Andrew Jackson | 68%
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| 1972 | Richard Nixon | Democratic | George McGovern | 66%
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| 1968 | Richard Nixon | Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 66%
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| American Independent | George Wallace | 65%
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| Republican | William Howard Taft | 64%
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| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Republican | Barry Goldwater | 63%
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| 1944 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Republican | Thomas Dewey | 62%
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| 1948 | Harry S. Truman | Republican | Thomas Dewey | 62%
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| 1892 | Grover Cleveland | Republican | Benjamin Harrison | 61%
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| 1836 | Martin Van Buren | Whig | William Henry Harrison | 60%
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| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 59%
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| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 59%
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| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | Democratic | Grover Cleveland | 58%
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| 1840 | William Henry Harrison | Democratic | Martin Van Buren | 58%
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| Democratic-Republican | Aaron Burr | 57%
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| 1800 | Thomas Jefferson | Democratic-Republican* | Aaron Burr | 57%
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| Democratic-Republican | Henry Clay | 52%
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| 1832 | Andrew Jackson | National Republican | Henry Clay | 52%
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| 1844 | James Knox Polk | Whig | Henry Clay | 52%
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| American (Know-Nothing) | Millard Fillmore | 50%
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| 1896 | William McKinley | Democratic-Populist | William Jennings Bryan | 50%
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| 1900 | William McKinley | Democratic-Populist | William Jennings Bryan | 50%
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| 1908 | William Howard Taft | Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 50%
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| 1936 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Republican | Alfred Landon | 46%
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| Democratic | Stephen Douglas | 45%
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| 1928 | Herbert Hoover | Democratic | Alfred Smith | 44%
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| States' Rights Democratic (Dixiecrat) | J. Strom Thurmond | 43%
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| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | Democratic | George McClellan | 42%
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| 1940 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Republican | Wendell Willkie | 42%
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| 1876 | Rutherford Birchard Hayes | Democratic | Samuel Jones Tilden | 36%
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| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | Democratic | John Breckinridge | 35%
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| 1856 | James Buchanan | Republican | John C. Fremont | 33%
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| Federalist | Charles Pinckney | 31%
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| Federalist | Charles Pinckney | 31%
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| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson | Federalist | Charles Pinckney | 31%
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| 1808 | James Madison | Federalist | Charles Pinckney | 31%
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| 1872 | Ulysses Simpson Grant | Democratic (died before election) | Horace Greeley | 31%
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| 1920 | Warren G. Harding | Democratic | James Middleton Cox | 27%
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| Constitutional Union | John Bell | 27%
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| Progressive | Robert La Follette | 27%
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| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Republican | Charles Hughes | 26%
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| 1852 | Franklin Pierce | Whig | Winfield Scott | 25%
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| 1884 | Grover Cleveland | Republican | James Blaine | 22%
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| 1816 | James Monroe | Federalist | Rufus King | 21%
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| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | Democratic | John Davis | 20%
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| 1848 | Zachary Taylor | Democratic | Lewis Cass | 20%
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| 1880 | James Garfield | Democratic | Winfield Hancock | 19%
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| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | Democratic | Alton Parker | 18%
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| Federalist | John Jay | 18%
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| 1868 | Ulysses Simpson Grant | Democratic | Horatio Seymour | 17%
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| People's (Populist) | James Weaver | 15%
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| Whig | Daniel Webster | 14%
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| Democratic-Republican | William Crawford | 12%
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| Anti-Masonic | William Wirt | 11%
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| Independent/Nullifier | John Floyd | 5%
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| Whig | Hugh White | 4%
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| Whig | W.P. Magnum | 2%
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