(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[Calthrina950]

All but two Democratic VP nominees since at least 1944 has either been a sitting Senator at the time of being elected Vice President, or if they were an incumbent Vice President, had been a Senator previously. The only exceptions to this pattern are 1972 (Sargent Shriver) and 1984 (Geraldine Ferraro).

[Calthrina950]

Henry Clay won MD by 6 votes

Well isn't that a NH-SEN 1974 kind of margin...

The 1832 election has very bizarre and extreme results, probably due to the facts that it was held less then a decade after the beginning of the modern day national popular vote, that it was held in a time in which partisan identity was even more fiercely embraced then it is now, and that there were great sectional divides in the country, emanating of course from slavery and all of its associated concerns. This was the map that year:

Jackson absolutely dominated in the South, receiving a unanimous vote in Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri, and well over 90% in Alabama and Tennessee, along with winning 85% in North Carolina and 75% in Virginia.

His weakest Southern state that he carried was Louisiana, where he received "only" 62%. Clay handily won his home state of Kentucky, by almost the same margin Jackson had carried it in 1828; native-son status mattered much more back then, as Clay won Kentucky in all three of his presidential bids. And of course, South Carolina, whose legislature chose its electors until 1860, voted for John Floyd on the Nullifier ticket, a clear backlash against Jackson due to the Nullification Crisis (Jackson had won the state in 1828).

Jackson was also very strong in Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, and Maine, and did well in Pennsylvania. However, he only narrowly won Ohio, New Jersey, and New York, and did horribly in the other New England states (his best New England state of these was Rhode Island, which he lost by 14%). Jackson got only 21% in Massachusetts and 25% in Vermont (carried by Wirt, the Anti-Masonic candidate), and only 34% in Connecticut. And of course, Clay won Delaware and Maryland by very narrow margins.

So in sum, Jackson won the South and the far West by landslides, had a mixed performance in the border states, did decently well in the Mid-Atlantic and Upper New England, and did very poorly in the remainder of New England.

[Calthrina950]

Republicans have swept all New England counties a handful of times, most recently in 1924 (along with all New York counties).  Ike came close in 1956, only losing Suffolk, MA.

Democrats have never swept the New England counties.  LBJ and Obama-08 each fell one county short; Goldwater won Carroll County, NH and McCain carried Piscataquis, ME.

As far as I know, no candidate of any party has swept every county in all five Deep South states, even though FDR came close each time.

It's ironic how two Arizona Senators, the latter of whom was the successor of the former, had the worst Republican performances in New England. And I think you're correct about the Deep South. Roosevelt lost Fannin and Towns Counties in far northern Georgia, which are ancestrally Republican areas. Jimmy Carter in 1976, interestingly enough, is the only Democratic presidential candidate to have swept all of Georgia's counties, something which neither Roosevelt nor any other Democrat during the Jim Crow era was able to pull off.

[Calthrina950]

Republicans have swept all New England counties a handful of times, most recently in 1924 (along with all New York counties).  Ike came close in 1956, only losing Suffolk, MA.

Democrats have never swept the New England counties.  LBJ and Obama-08 each fell one county short; Goldwater won Carroll County, NH and McCain carried Piscataquis, ME.

As far as I know, no candidate of any party has swept every county in all five Deep South states, even though FDR came close each time.

It's ironic how two Arizona Senators, the latter of whom was the successor of the former, had the worst Republican performances in New England. And I think you're correct about the Deep South. Roosevelt lost Fannin and Towns Counties in far northern Georgia, which are ancestrally Republican areas. Jimmy Carter in 1976, interestingly enough, is the only Democratic presidential candidate to have swept all of Georgia's counties, something which neither Roosevelt nor any other Democrat during the Jim Crow era was able to pull off.

And those two Arizona Senators were the Republicans who lost every state carried by Lincoln in 1860.

That's true. Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 is the last Republican to have carried every Lincoln 1860 state, as Nixon lost Massachusetts in 1972 and Reagan lost Minnesota in 1984.

[Calthrina950]

With Bob Dole's death, there are no longer any living Republican presidential nominees from before 2000. Jimmy Carter is now the last surviving major-party candidate of both 1976 and 1980, as Mondale, Reagan, H.W. Bush, and Ford have all passed on. All three of Bill Clinton's major presidential opponents are now dead (as Perot died in 2019). The earliest surviving Republican presidential ticket is that of 2000 (W. Bush and Cheney), which is also the earliest election with both major-party presidential tickets all still alive. Dole's death also means that Dan Quayle is the last living Republican vice-presidential nominee from before 2000 (as Jack Kemp, Dole's 1996 running mate, died in 2009).

[Calthrina950]

Updating:

For the Presidential:

Most Recent dead DEM: Walter Mondale
Most Recent dead GOP: John McCain

Furthest Back living DEM: Jimmy Carter
Furthest Back living GOP: George W. Bush

For the VP:

Most Recent dead DEM: Lloyd Bentsen
Most Recent dead GOP: Jack Kemp

Furthest Back living DEM: Al Gore
Furthest Back living GOP: Dan Quayle

Libertarians

Most recent dead presidential candidate: 2000 Harry Browne
Furthest back alive presidential candidate: 1980 Ed Clark

Most recent dead VP candidate: 1984 James Lewis
Further back alive VP candidate: 1988 Andre Marrou

No presidential or VP candidate for the Green Party has passed away yet. Ralph Nader is 87 and then the next oldest person is Jill Stein at 70. Nader's VP candidate Winona LaDuke is only 62 (was 37 and 41 for the 1996 and 2000 elections).

What about David Cobb and Howie Hawkins. I could've sworn Stein was younger than the latter at least.

Not sure the wherabouts for McKinney.

Cobb is 59 and Hawkins is 69. So Stein is older than Hawkins, although only by a year or so. McKinney is 66.

[Calthrina950]

In the last 4 Presidential elections, every Republican nominee (McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump) has gotten 30% in Vermont in 2012 Romney came the closest to getting 31% with 30.97%

George W. Bush is the last Republican to reach the 40% mark in Vermont and the last to win any other counties besides Essex County (he won Caledonia, Orleans, and Orange with pluralities, in addition to Essex). He obtained both of these milestones in 2000. His 39% share in 2004 is the last time that a Republican has obtained more than 30% of the vote. Bush is also the last Republican to come within single digits in Vermont, losing to Al Gore by 9.93%.