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« Reply #400 on: June 30, 2021, 10:45:57 PM »
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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.
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« Reply #401 on: July 03, 2021, 07:52:34 PM »

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but...

   Vermont did not vote Democratic ever, from the party's founding (I'm not counting the Democratic-Republican Party as the Democratic Party, even though it was the basis of the Democratic Party the same way the Whig Party was kind of a Federalist resurrection) until 1964 (when it voted for LBJ over Barry Goldwater, perceived as a racist). It would also not vote Democratic again until 1992, when it supported Bill Clinton: since when it has only voted Democratic, in 2020 giving Biden his best performance.
   Georgia did not vote Republican from the party's founding until 1964 (when it voted for Barry Goldwater). So really, 2020 was just full circle for GA (although technically Democrats did win GA in 1976, 1980 and 1992 as well).

  (Other fun facts about Vermont and Georgia: Vermont's the only state to back an anti-Masonic candidate, William Wirt, and Vermont has also elected just one Democrat to the Senate in its history, Patrick Leahy - although Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Democrats and Jim Jeffords is a Republican-turned-Independent; while Georgia saw all 159 of its counties flip Democratic from 1972, when all voted for Republican Richard Nixon, to 1976, when all voted for native son Jimmy Carter, including some ancestrally Republican counties in Northern Georgia that had eluded the Democrats even in landslides.)

 Other fun facts about statistics in presidential elections relating to more recent elections: Nine of the fifteen Clinton/Trump counties are in Texas; Roberts County, TX, gave just 3.1% of its vote (17 votes) to Joe Biden, to the 96.8% (and 529 votes) that Trump received. In Hawaii, Kalawao County (population 86) is a Democratic stronghold, to say the least - in 2020, all 24 voters voted for either Trump or Biden, with just one (4.17%) going to Trump. In 2016, Trump performed equally abysmally, with Kalawao becoming the only county where he finished third: of the 20 votes cast, just one vote for Trump (5%) to 14 for Biden (a solid 70%, though significantly less than his 2020 percentage) and 5 for Jill Stein (25%, making Kalawao Stein's best county nationally in terms of percentage of the vote).
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« Reply #402 on: July 27, 2021, 11:33:01 PM »

Since 1964, every time Georgia has voted Democratic, an incumbent president lost the national race, and vice-versa.
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« Reply #403 on: July 30, 2021, 10:27:45 AM »

Since 2000, the average age difference between the two members of the Democratic ticket is 14.5 years. The Republican ticket? Also 14.5 years.

2020
Biden/Harris (22 years)
Trump/Pence (13 years)

2016
Clinton/Kaine (11 years)
Trump/Pence (13 years)

2012
Obama/Biden (19 years)
Romney/Ryan (23 years)

2008
Obama/Biden (19 years)
McCain/Palin (28 years)

2004
Kerry/Edwards (10 years)
Bush/Cheney (5 years)

2000
Gore/Lieberman (6 years)
Bush/Cheney (5 years)
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« Reply #404 on: August 03, 2021, 09:52:31 PM »

In all Presidential elections starting with 2000 with the exception of 2004, the candidate who sounded more dovish during the debates won.
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« Reply #405 on: August 06, 2021, 02:34:32 PM »

Since 1964, every time Georgia has voted Democratic, an incumbent president lost the national race, and vice-versa.

I somehow never noticed that one. Thanks for pointing that out
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« Reply #406 on: August 07, 2021, 01:00:59 AM »

Since senators have been directly elected, Trump is the first president to see his party gain Senate seats in his midterm election and then lose reelection.

The other presidents are Wilson, Kennedy, Nixon, and the younger Bush. Three of those won reelection and the fourth was assassinated but his successor won. Republicans didn't lose any ground in Reagan's midterm and Reagan was reelected.
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« Reply #407 on: August 07, 2021, 01:51:42 AM »

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.
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« Reply #408 on: August 07, 2021, 09:07:50 AM »

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.

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« Reply #409 on: August 07, 2021, 01:56:23 PM »

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.
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« Reply #410 on: August 07, 2021, 02:32:09 PM »

San Luis Obispo County, CA, the whitest county in SoCal has voted very similar to Colorado and both haven't vote for a Republican since 2004, when Bush won the National Popular vote. Both places have also voted together since 1952!




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« Reply #411 on: August 07, 2021, 08:30:53 PM »

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.
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« Reply #412 on: August 08, 2021, 12:35:42 AM »

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.

Clinton '96 won all but two New England counties (both in NH). New England doesn't like western senators apparently...
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« Reply #413 on: August 08, 2021, 05:42:29 PM »

1988 was the last time one of WI, MI and PA voted differently than the others.

1996 and 2004 were the only elections since 1964 that both major parties picked up states.

That second one's quite interesting...
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« Reply #414 on: December 10, 2021, 11:41:53 PM »
« Edited: February 05, 2022, 02:53:50 AM by 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).
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« Reply #415 on: December 11, 2021, 03:05:10 AM »

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
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« Reply #416 on: December 14, 2021, 10:50:05 PM »

As recently as 2000 (prior to that year’s election), every state—except Alaska—had voted Democratic more often than Vermont.
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« Reply #417 on: December 15, 2021, 04:22:45 PM »

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).
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« Reply #418 on: December 21, 2021, 12:28:58 AM »

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.
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« Reply #419 on: December 21, 2021, 05:58:33 PM »

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.
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« Reply #420 on: December 29, 2021, 02:17:39 AM »

Not a presidential election fact, but...

Democrats have twice now gained control of the Senate in an odd-numbered year...both times this century and both times in a year ending in 1.
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« Reply #421 on: February 05, 2022, 03:01:56 AM »

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%.
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« Reply #422 on: February 10, 2022, 12:32:57 AM »

In 2008, the four closest states (MO, NC, IN and MT) all simultaneously held gubernatorial elections. And while this isn't directly related to the presidential contest, 3 of those 4 states (the exception being the consistenly Democratic NC) elected a governor of the party opposite the party they voted for for president (i.e., MT and MO elected Democratic governors and IN elected a Republican governor, despite the three states having complete opposite presidential voting).
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« Reply #423 on: February 14, 2022, 05:55:58 AM »
« Edited: February 14, 2022, 08:29:07 PM by TDAS04 »

The only time a Republican performed worse in a state than he did in the District of Columbia?  1968. Nixon received only 14% of the vote in Alabama and Mississippi, while obtaining 18% in DC.
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« Reply #424 on: February 14, 2022, 06:00:29 AM »

Since 1964, every time Georgia has voted Democratic, an incumbent president lost the national race, and vice-versa.

Since 1840, every time an incumbent President has lost, the Democrat won Georgia.
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