Presidents Who Lost a Presidential Election

Based on the year that they lost, can you name the 17 U.S. Presidents who lost a presidential election in which they received at least 10% of the vote?

4 lost an election before being elected president, while the other 13 lost an election after being president.

Only one president managed to lose 2 presidential elections!

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Election Lost	President
1796	Thomas Jefferson
1800	John Adams
1824	Andrew Jackson
1828	John Quincy Adams
1836	William Henry Harrison
1840, 1848	Martin Van Buren
1856	Millard Fillmore
1888	Grover Cleveland
1892	Benjamin Harrison
1912 (incumbent)	William Howard Taft
1912	Theodore Roosevelt
1932	Herbert Hoover
1960	Richard Nixon
1976	Gerald Ford
1980	Jimmy Carter
1992	George H.W. Bush
2020	Donald Trump