|
Rank
|
Year
|
# of votes
|
Party
|
Answer
|
Running Mate
|
|
1
|
2020
|
81,268,924
|
D
|
Joe Biden
|
Kamala Harris
|
|
2
|
2024
|
77,302,580
|
R
|
Donald Trump
|
J.D. Vance
|
|
3
|
2024
|
75,017,613
|
D
|
Kamala Harris
|
Tim Walz
|
|
4
|
2020
|
74,216,154
|
R
|
Donald Trump
|
Mike Pence
|
|
5
|
2008
|
69,498,516
|
D
|
Barack Obama
|
Joe Biden
|
|
6
|
2012
|
65,915,795
|
D
|
Barack Obama
|
Joe Biden
|
|
7
|
2016
|
65,853,514
|
D
|
Hillary Clinton
|
Tim Kaine
|
|
8
|
2016
|
62,984,828
|
R
|
Donald Trump
|
Mike Pence
|
|
9
|
2004
|
62,040,610
|
R
|
George W. Bush
|
Dick Cheney
|
|
10
|
2012
|
60,933,504
|
R
|
Mitt Romney
|
Paul Ryan
|
|
11
|
2008
|
59,948,323
|
R
|
John McCain
|
Sarah Palin
|
|
12
|
2004
|
59,028,444
|
D
|
John Kerry
|
John Edwards
|
|
13
|
1984
|
54,455,472
|
R
|
Ronald Reagan
|
George H.W. Bush
|
|
14
|
2000
|
50,999,897
|
D
|
Al Gore
|
Joe Lieberman
|
|
15
|
2000
|
50,456,002
|
R
|
George W. Bush
|
Dick Cheney
|
|
16
|
1988
|
48,886,597
|
R
|
George H.W. Bush
|
Dan Quayle
|
|
17
|
1996
|
47,401,185
|
D
|
Bill Clinton
|
Al Gore
|
|
18
|
1972
|
47,168,710
|
R
|
Richard Nixon
|
Spiro Agnew
|
|
19
|
1992
|
44,909,889
|
D
|
Bill Clinton
|
Al Gore
|
|
20
|
1980
|
43,127,041
|
R
|
Ronald Reagan
|
George H.W. Bush
|
|
21
|
1964
|
43,127,041
|
D
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
Hubert Humphrey
|
|
22
|
1988
|
41,809,074
|
D
|
Michael Dukakis
|
Lloyd Bentsen
|
|
23
|
1976
|
40,831,881
|
D
|
Jimmy Carter
|
Walter Mondale
|
|
24
|
1996
|
39,197,469
|
R
|
Bob Dole
|
Jack Kemp
|
|
25
|
1976
|
39,148,634
|
R
|
Gerald Ford
|
Bob Dole
|
|
26
|
1992
|
39,104,550
|
R
|
George H.W. Bush
|
Dan Quayle
|
|
27
|
1984
|
37,577,352
|
D
|
Walter Mondale
|
Geraldine Ferraro
|
|
28
|
1956
|
35,579,180
|
R
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Richard Nixon
|
|
29
|
1980
|
35,480,115
|
D
|
Jimmy Carter
|
Walter Mondale
|
|
30
|
1960
|
34,220,984
|
D
|
John F. Kennedy
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
|
31
|
1960
|
34,108,157
|
R
|
Richard Nixon
|
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
|
|
32
|
1952
|
34,075,529
|
R
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Richard Nixon
|
|
33
|
1968
|
31,783,783
|
R
|
Richard Nixon
|
Spiro Agnew
|
|
34
|
1968
|
31,271,839
|
D
|
Hubert Humphrey
|
Edmund Muskie
|
|
35
|
1972
|
29,173,222
|
D
|
George McGovern
|
Sargent Shriver
|
|
36
|
1936
|
27,747,636
|
D
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
John Nance Garner
|
|
37
|
1952
|
27,375,090
|
D
|
Adlai Stevenson
|
John Sparkman
|
|
38
|
1940
|
27,313,945
|
D
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
Henry A. Wallace
|
|
39
|
1964
|
27,175,754
|
R
|
Barry Goldwater
|
William E. Miller
|
|
40
|
1956
|
26,028,028
|
D
|
Adlai Stevenson
|
Estes Kefauver
|
|
41
|
1944
|
25,612,916
|
D
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
Harry S. Truman
|
|
42
|
1948
|
24,179,347
|
D
|
Harry S. Truman
|
Alben W. Barkley
|
|
43
|
1932
|
22,821,277
|
D
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
John Nance Garner
|
|
44
|
1940
|
22,347,744
|
R
|
Wendell Willkie
|
Charles L. McNary
|
|
45
|
1944
|
22,017,929
|
R
|
Thomas E. Dewey
|
John W. Bricker
|
|
46
|
1948
|
21,991,292
|
R
|
Thomas E. Dewey
|
Earl Warren
|
|
47
|
1928
|
21,427,123
|
R
|
Herbert Hoover
|
Charles Curtis
|
|
48
|
1992
|
19,743,821
|
I
|
Ross Perot
|
James Stockdale
|
|
49
|
1936
|
16,679,543
|
R
|
Alf Landon
|
Frank Knox
|
|
50
|
1920
|
16,166,126
|
R
|
Warren G. Harding
|
Calvin Coolidge
|
|
51
|
1932
|
15,761,254
|
R
|
Herbert Hoover
|
Charles Curtis
|
|
52
|
1924
|
15,723,789
|
R
|
Calvin Coolidge
|
Charles G. Dawes
|
|
53
|
1928
|
15,015,464
|
D
|
Al Smith
|
Joseph T. Robinson
|
|
54
|
1968
|
9,901,118
|
AIP
|
George Wallace
|
Curtis LeMay
|
|
55
|
1920
|
9,140,256
|
D
|
James M. Cox
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
|
56
|
1916
|
9,126,868
|
D
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
Thomas R. Marshall
|
|
57
|
1916
|
8,548,728
|
R
|
Charles Evans Hughes
|
Charles W. Fairbanks
|
|
58
|
1924
|
8,386,242
|
D
|
John W. Davis
|
Charles W. Bryan
|
|
59
|
1996
|
8,085,402
|
RPUSA
|
Ross Perot
|
Patrick Choate
|
|
60
|
1908
|
7,678,335
|
R
|
William Howard Taft
|
James S. Sherman
|
|
61
|
1904
|
7,630,457
|
R
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
Charles W. Fairbanks
|
|
62
|
1900
|
7,228,864
|
R
|
William McKinley
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
63
|
1896
|
7,111,607
|
R
|
William McKinley
|
Garret Hobart
|
|
64
|
1896
|
6,509,052
|
D
|
William Jennings Bryan
|
Arthur Sewali / Thomas E. Watson
|
|
65
|
1908
|
6,408,979
|
D
|
William Jennings Bryan
|
John W. Kern
|
|
66
|
1900
|
6,370,932
|
D
|
William Jennings Bryan
|
Adlai Stevenson
|
|
67
|
1912
|
6,296,284
|
D
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
Thomas R. Marshall
|
|
68
|
1980
|
5,719,850
|
I
|
John B. Anderson
|
Patrick Lucey
|
|
69
|
1892
|
5,553,898
|
D
|
Grover Cleveland
|
Adlai Stevenson
|
|
70
|
1888
|
5,534,488
|
D
|
Grover Cleveland
|
Allen G. Thurman
|
|
71
|
1888
|
5,443,892
|
R
|
Benjamin Harrison
|
Levi P. Morton
|
|
72
|
1892
|
5,190,819
|
R
|
Benjamin Harrison
|
Whitelaw Reid
|
|
73
|
1904
|
5,083,880
|
D
|
Alton B. Parker
|
Henry Gassaway Davis
|
|
74
|
1884
|
4,914,482
|
D
|
Grover Cleveland
|
Thomas A. Hendricks
|
|
75
|
1884
|
4,856,903
|
R
|
James G. Blaine
|
John A. Logan
|
|
76
|
1924
|
4,831,706
|
SPA
|
Robert M. La Follette
|
Burton K. Wheeler
|
|
77
|
2016
|
4,489,341
|
L
|
Gary Johnson
|
William Weld
|
|
78
|
1880
|
4,454,443
|
R
|
James A. Garfield
|
Chester A. Arthur
|
|
79
|
1880
|
4,444,976
|
D
|
Winfield Scott Hancock
|
William Hayden English
|
|
80
|
1876
|
4,286,808
|
D
|
Samuel J. Tilden
|
Thomas A. Hendricks
|
|
81
|
1912
|
4,122,721
|
P
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
Hiram Johnson
|
|
82
|
1876
|
4,034,142
|
R
|
Rutherford B. Hayes
|
William A. Wheeler
|
|
83
|
1872
|
3,598,235
|
R
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
Henry Wilson
|
|
84
|
1912
|
3,486,242
|
R
|
William Howard Taft
|
Nicholas Murray Butler
|
|
85
|
1868
|
3,013,650
|
R
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
Schuyler Colfax
|
|
86
|
2000
|
2,882,955
|
G
|
Ralph Nader
|
Winona LaDuke
|
|
87
|
1872
|
2,834,761
|
D
|
Horace Greeley
|
Benjamin Gratz Brown
|
|
88
|
1868
|
2,708,744
|
D
|
Horatio Seymour
|
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
|
|
89
|
1864
|
2,218,388
|
NU
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
Andrew Johnson
|
|
90
|
2020
|
1,865,535
|
L
|
Jo Jorgensen
|
Spike Cohen
|
|
91
|
1860
|
1,855,276
|
R
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
Hannibal Hamlin
|
|
92
|
1856
|
1,836,072
|
D
|
James Buchanan
|
John C. Breckinridge
|
|
93
|
1864
|
1,812,807
|
D
|
George B. McClellan
|
George H. Pendleton
|
|
94
|
1852
|
1,607,510
|
D
|
Franklin Pierce
|
William R. King
|
|
95
|
2016
|
1,457,218
|
G
|
Jill Stein
|
Ajamu Baraka
|
|
96
|
1952
|
1,386,942
|
W
|
Winfield Scott
|
William Alexander Graham
|
|
97
|
1848
|
1,361,393
|
W
|
Zachary Taylor
|
Millard Fillmore
|
|
98
|
1856
|
1,342,345
|
R
|
John C. Fremont
|
William L. Dayton
|
|
99
|
1844
|
1,339,494
|
D
|
James K. Polk
|
George M. Dallas
|
|
100
|
1844
|
1,300,004
|
W
|
Henry Clay
|
Theodore Frelinghuysen
|
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