Every Runner-Up in the US Presidential Elections

Guess all the candidates for the presidency who lost. Please write "N/A" (1788, 1792, and 1820).

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Election	The Election Winner	Runner-Up	The Runner-Up's Political Party
1789	George Washington	N/A	N/A
1792	George Washington	N/A	N/A
1796	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republicans
1800	Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	Federalists
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Charles Pinckney	Federalists
1808	James Madison	Charles Pinckney	Federalists
1812	James Madison	DeWitt Clinton	(Technical Democratic Republican) Federalists
1816	James Monroe	Rufus King	Federalists
1820	James Monroe	N/A	N/A
1824	John Quincy Adams	Andrew Jackson	(Technical Democratic Republican) Jacksonian
1824	John Quincy Adams	William H. Crawford	(Technical Democratic Republican) Old Republican
1824	John Quincy Adams	Henry Clay	(Technical Democratic Republican) Adams-Clay
1828	Andrew Jackson	John Quincy Adams	National Republicans
1832	Andrew Jackson	Henry Clay	National Republicans
1832	Andrew Jackson	John Floyd	Nullifier
1832	Andrew Jackson	William Wirt	Anti-Masonic
1836	Martin Van Buren	William Henry Harrison	Whig (Anti-Masonic)
1836	Martin Van Buren	Hugh L. White	Whig
1836	Martin Van Buren	Daniel Webster	Whig
1836	Martin Van Buren	Willie P. Mangum	Whig (Nullifier)
1840	William Henry Harrison	Martin Van Buren	Democratic
1844	James K. Polk	Henry Clay	Whig
1848	Zachary Taylor	Lewis Cass	Democratic
1848	Zachary Taylor	Martin Van Buren	Free Soil
1852	Franklin Pierce	Winfield Scott	Whig
1856	James Buchanan	John Fremont	Republican
1856	James Buchanan	Millard Fillmore	Whig
1860	Abraham Lincoln	John C. Breckinridge	Southern Democratic
1860	Abraham Lincoln	John Bell	Constitutional Union
1860	Abraham Lincoln	Stephen A. Douglas	Northern Democratic
1864	Abraham Lincoln	George McClellan	Democratic
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	Horatio Seymour	Democratic
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	Horace Greeley	Liberal Republican
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes	Samuel Tilden	Democratic
1880	James Garfield	Winfield Scott Hancock	Democratic
1884	Grover Cleveland	James G. Blaine	Republican
1888	Benjamin Harrison	Grover Cleveland	Democratic
1892	Grover Cleveland	Benjamin Harrison	Republican
1892	Grover Cleveland	James B. Weaver	Populist

Election	The Election Winner	Runner-Up	The Runner-Up's Political Party
1896	William McKinley	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic (Populist-Silver)
1900	William McKinley	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	Alton B. Parker	Democratic
1908	William H. Taft	William Jennings Bryan	Democratic
1912	Woodrow Wilson	Theodore Roosevelt	Progressive
1912	Woodrow Wilson	William H. Taft	Republican
1916	Woodrow Wilson	Charles Evans Hughes	Republican
1920	Warren G. Harding	James M. Cox	Democratic
1924	Calvin Coolidge	John Davis	Democratic
1924	Calvin Coolidge	Robert LaFollette	Progressive
1928	Herbert Hoover	Al Smith	Democratic
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Herbert Hoover	Republican
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Alf Landon	Republican
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Wendell Willkie	Republican
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Thomas Dewey	Republican
1948	Harry S. Truman	Thomas Dewey	Republican
1948	Harry S. Truman	Strom Thurmond	States' Rights
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adlai Stevenson II	Democratic
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adlai Stevenson II	Democratic
1960	John F. Kennedy	Richard Nixon	Republican
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	Barry Goldwater	Republican
1968	Richard Nixon	Hubert Humphrey	Democratic
1968	Richard Nixon	George Wallace	American Independent
1972	Richard Nixon	George McGovern	Democratic
1976	Jimmy Carter	Gerald Ford	Republican
1980	Ronald Reagan	Jimmy Carter	Democratic
1984	Ronald Reagan	Walter Mondale	Democratic
1988	George H.W Bush	Michael Dukakis	Democratic
1992	Bill Clinton	George H.W Bush	Republican
1992	Bill Clinton	Ross Perot	Independent
1996	Bill Clinton	Bob Dole	Republican
1996	Bill Clinton	Ross Perot	Reform
2000	George W. Bush	Al Gore	Democratic
2004	George W. Bush	John Kerry	Democratic
2008	Barack Obama	John McCain	Republican
2012	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Republican
2016	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton	Democratic
2020	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Republican
2024	Donald Trump	Kamala Harris	Democratic