Failed U.S. Presidential Candidates

You get the election year, who they lost to, whose ticket they ran under (or their political affiliation).

Only candidates that won electoral votes will be counted.

* = became vice president (until 1800)

Some elections will ask you for various numbers of politicians. This is based mostly on my discretion.

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Year	Elected Candidate	Party	Answer
1789	George Washington	Federalist*	John Adams
		Federalist	John Jay
1792	George Washington	Federalist*	John Adams
		Democratic-Republican	George Clinton
1796	John Adams	Democratic-Republican*	Thomas Jefferson
		Federalist	Charles Pinckney
		Democratic-Republican	Aaron Burr
1800	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican*	Aaron Burr
		Federalist	John Adams
		Federalist	Charles Pinckney
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Federalist	Charles Pinckney
1808	James Madison	Federalist	Charles Pinckney
		Democratic-Republican	George Clinton
1812	James Madison	Federalist	Dewitt Clinton
1816	James Monroe	Federalist	Rufus King
1820	James Monroe	Independent (Federalist)	John Quincy Adams
1824	John Quincy Adams	Democratic-Republican	Andrew Jackson
		Democratic-Republican	William Crawford
		Democratic-Republican	Henry Clay
1828	Andrew Jackson	National Republican	John Quincy Adams
1832	Andrew Jackson	National Republican	Henry Clay
		Independent/Nullifier	John Floyd
		Anti-Masonic	William Wirt
1836	Martin Van Buren	Whig	William Henry Harrison
		Whig	Hugh White
		Whig	Daniel Webster
		Whig	W.P. Magnum
1840	William Henry Harrison	Democratic	Martin Van Buren
1844	James Knox Polk	Whig	Henry Clay
1848	Zachary Taylor	Democratic	Lewis Cass
1852	Franklin Pierce	Whig	Winfield Scott
1856	James Buchanan	Republican	John C. Fremont
		American (Know-Nothing)	Millard Fillmore
1860	Abraham Lincoln	Democratic	John Breckinridge
		Constitutional Union	John Bell
		Democratic	Stephen Douglas
1864	Abraham Lincoln	Democratic	George McClellan
1868	Ulysses Simpson Grant	Democratic	Horatio Seymour
1872	Ulysses Simpson Grant	Democratic (died before election)	Horace Greeley
1876	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	Democratic	Samuel Jones Tilden

Year	Elected Candidate	Party	Answer
1880	James Garfield	Democratic	Winfield Hancock
1884	Grover Cleveland	Republican	James Blaine
1888	Benjamin Harrison	Democratic	Grover Cleveland
1892	Grover Cleveland	Republican	Benjamin Harrison
		People's (Populist)	James Weaver
1896	William McKinley	Democratic-Populist	William Jennings Bryan
1900	William McKinley	Democratic-Populist	William Jennings Bryan
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	Democratic	Alton Parker
1908	William Howard Taft	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan
1912	Woodrow Wilson	Progressive (Bull Moose)	Theodore Roosevelt
		Republican	William Howard Taft
1916	Woodrow Wilson	Republican	Charles Hughes
1920	Warren G. Harding	Democratic	James Middleton Cox
1924	Calvin Coolidge	Democratic	John Davis
		Progressive	Robert La Follette
1928	Herbert Hoover	Democratic	Alfred Smith
1932	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Republican	Herbert Hoover
1936	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Republican	Alfred Landon
1940	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Republican	Wendell Willkie
1944	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Republican	Thomas Dewey
1948	Harry S. Truman	Republican	Thomas Dewey
		States' Rights Democratic (Dixiecrat)	J. Strom Thurmond
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson
1960	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Republican	Richard Nixon
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	Republican	Barry Goldwater
1968	Richard Nixon	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey
		American Independent	George Wallace
1972	Richard Nixon	Democratic	George McGovern
1976	Jimmy Carter	Republican	Gerald Ford
1980	Ronald Reagan	Democratic	Jimmy Carter
1984	Ronald Reagan	Democratic	Walter Mondale
1988	George H. W. Bush	Democratic	Michael Dukakis
1992	Bill Clinton	Republican	George Bush
1996	Bill Clinton	Republican	Robert Dole
2000	George W. Bush	Democratic	Al Gore
2004	George W. Bush	Democratic	John Kerry
2008	Barack Obama	Republican	John McCain
2012	Barack Obama	Republican	Mitt Romney
2016	Donald Trump	Democratic	Hillary Clinton