Unsuccessful U.S. Presidential Candidates

Name major presidential candidates who were unsuccessful

Winners are filled out for reference

1788-1789, 1792, and 1820 are already filled in as there were essentially no challenging candidates

1796 is filled out because Adams wons the presidency and Jefferson won the vice presidency

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Year	Party	Nominee
1788-1789	Independent	George Washington
1792	Independent	George Washington
1796	Federalist	John Adams
1796	Democratic-Republican	Thomas Jefferson
1800	Democratic-Republican	Thomas Jefferson
1800	Federalist	John Adams
1804	Democratic-Republican	Thomas Jefferson
1804	Federalist	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
1808	Democratic-Republican	James Madison
1808	Federalist	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
1812	Democratic-Republican	James Madison
1812	Federalist	DeWitt Clinton
1816	Democratic-Republican	James Monroe
1816	Federalist	Rufus King
1820	Democratic-Republican	James Monroe
1824	Democratic-Republican	John Quincy Adams
		Andrew Jackson
		William H. Crawford
		Henry Clay
1828	Democratic	Andrew Jackson
1828	National Republican	John Quincy Adams
1832	Democratic	Andrew Jackson
	National Republican	Henry Clay
	Nullifier	John Floyd
	Anti-Masonic	William Wirt
1836	Democratic	Martin Van Buren
	Whig	William Henry Harrison
		Hugh Lawson White
		Daniel Webster
		Willie P. Mangum
1840	Whig	William Henry Harrison
1840	Democratic	Martin Van Buren
1844	Democratic	James K. Polk
1844	Whig	Henry Clay
1848	Whig	Zachary Taylor
	Democratic	Lewis Cass
	Free Soil	Martin Van Buren
1852	Democratic	Franklin Pierce
1852	Whig	Winfield Scott
1856	Democratic	James Buchanan
	Republican	John C. Frémont
	Know Nothing	Millard Fillmore
1860	Republican	Abraham Lincoln
	Southern Democrats	John C. Breckinridge
	Constitutional Union	John Bell
	Democratic	Stephen A. Douglas
1864	National Union	Abraham Lincoln
1864	Democratic	George B. McClellan
1868	Republican	Ulysses S. Grant
1868	Democratic	Horatio Seymour
1872	Republican	Ulysses S. Grant
1872	Liberal Republican	Horace Greeley
1876	Republican	Rutherford B. Hayes
1876	Democratic	Samuel J. Tilden
1880	Republican	James A. Garfield
1880	Democratic	Winfield Scott Hancock
1884	Democratic	Grover Cleveland
1884	Republican	James G. Blaine
1888	Republican	Benjamin Harrison
1888	Democratic	Grover Cleveland
1892	Democratic	Grover Cleveland
	Republican	Benjamin Harrison
	Populist	James B. Weaver
1896	Republican	William McKinley
1896	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan
1900	Republican	William McKinley
1900	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan
1904	Republican	Theodore Roosevelt
1904	Democratic	Alton B. Parker
1908	Republican	William Howard Taft
1908	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan
1912	Democratic	Woodrow Wilson
	Bull Moose	Theodore Roosevelt
	Republican	William Howard Taft
	Socialist	Eugene V. Debs
1916	Democratic	Woodrow Wilson
1916	Republican	Charles Evans Hughes
1920	Republican	Warren G. Harding
1920	Democratic	James M. Cox
1924	Republican	Calvin Coolidge
	Democratic	John W. Davis
	Progressive	Robert M. La Follette
1928	Republican	Herbert Hoover
1928	Democratic	Al Smith
1932	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1932	Republican	Herbert Hoover
1936	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936	Republican	Alf Landon
1940	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1940	Republican	Wendell Willkie
1944	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1944	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey
1948	Democratic	Harry S. Truman
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey
	Dixiecrat	Strom Thurmond
1952	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1952	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson II
1956	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson II
1960	Democratic	John F. Kennedy
1960	Republican	Richard Nixon
1964	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson
1964	Republican	Barry Goldwater
1968	Republican	Richard Nixon
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey
	American Independent	George Wallace
1972	Republican	Richard Nixon
1972	Democratic	George McGovern
1976	Democratic	Jimmy Carter
1976	Republican	Gerald Ford
1980	Republican	Ronald Reagan
	Democratic	Jimmy Carter
	Independent	John B. Anderson
1984	Republican	Ronald Reagan
1984	Democratic	Walter Mondale
1988	Republican	George H. W. Bush
1988	Democratic	Michael Dukakis
1992	Democratic	Bill Clinton
	Republican	George H. W. Bush
	Independent	Ross Perot
1996	Democratic	Bill Clinton
	Republican	Bob Dole
	Reform	Ross Perot
2000	Republican	George W. Bush
2000	Democratic	Al Gore
2004	Republican	George W. Bush
2004	Democratic	John Kerry
2008	Democratic	Barack Obama
2008	Republican	John McCain
2012	Democratic	Barack Obama
2012	Republican	Mitt Romney
2016	Republican	Donald Trump
2016	Democratic	Hillary Clinton
2020	Democratic	Joe Biden
2020	Republican	Donald Trump
2024	Republican	Donald Trump
2024	Democratic	Kamala Harris