Popular Vote Totals For Every Elected American President (rather interesting)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. George Washington - unknown

2. John Adams - unknown

3. Thomas Jefferson - unknown

4. James Madison - unknown

5. James Monroe - unknown

6. John Q. Adams - 108,740 <---------- first president with actual vote count known

7. Andrew Jackson - 647,286 - 687,502

8. Martin Van Buren - 762,678

9. William H. Harrison - 1,275,016 <----- first president with over 1 million votes

10. James K. Polk - 1,337,243

11. Zachary Taylor - 1,360,099

12. Franklin Pierce - 1,601,274

13. James Buchanan - 1,838,169

14. Abraham Lincoln - 1,866,452 - 2,213,665 <----- first president with over 2 million votes

15. Ulysses S. Grant - 3,012,833 - 3,597,132

16. Rutherford B. Hayes - 4,036,298

17. James A. Garfield - 4,454,416

18. Grover Cleveland - 4,874,986

19. Benjamin Harrison - 5,439,853 <------ first president with over 5 million votes

20. Grover Cleveland - 5,556,918

21. William McKinley - 7,104,779 - 7,207,923

22. Theodore Roosevelt - 7,623,486

23. William H. Taft - 7,678,908

24. Woodrow Wilson - 6,293,454 - 9,129,606

25. Warren G. Harding - 16,152,200 <----- first presdient with over 10 million votes.

26. Calvin Coolidge - 15,725,016

27. Herbert C. Hoover - 21,391,381 <---- first president with over 20 million votes.

28. Franklin D. Roosevelt - 22,821,857 - 27,751,597 - 27,244,160 - 25,602,504

29. Harry S. Truman - 24,105,695

30. Dwight D. Eisenhower - 33,778,963 - 35,581,003 <---------- first president with over 30 million votes.

31. John F. Kennedy - 34,227,096

32. Lyndon B. Johnson - 42,825,463 <------ first president with over 40 million votes.

33. Richard M. Nixon - 31,710,470 - 46,740,323

34. Jimmy Carter - 40,825,839

35. Ronald Reagan - 43,901,812 - 54,455,000 <---- first president with over 50 million votes.

36. George Bush - 47,946,000

37. William J. Clinton - 44,908,254 - 45,590,703

38. George W. Bush - 50,456,062 - 62,039,073 <---- first president with over 60 million votes.


Interesting facts from this. There've been a number of presidents elected who had received less votes than the presidents before them had. In addition, the vote totals for Bush in 2004 (making no statements about his qualities, just numbers) are equal to the vote totals for the first 20 presidents combined. The vote totals for John Q. Adams, the first president we have numbers for, are less than half of the total that Bush received from just Wyoming in 2004.

Just food for thought. Totally meaningless, but I thought some of you political buffs out there would find it interesting.

[Pokey Anderson]

1. That might be fun to cite some time. Do you have a source?

Kind of interesting. It is estimated that 100,000 votes were lost in the Los Angeles primary alone, votes of independents attempting to vote Democratic, just days ago.

That would be roughly equivalent to the nationwide vote total for John Q. Adams.

For more on the CA problem:

Voting advocates allege problems at Los Angeles polls
Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Political Writers
February 5, 2008 17:37
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/MNQOUSIIM.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. yeah

http://www.270towin.com/

if you go there, you can click through the map for every year and it'll give you the popular vote totals, and the states and electoral votes won by each president.

[blm]

3. RNC STOLE more than 5 million of those votes from Kerry voters. DNC let them.

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[TankLV]

4. and don't ever forget: GORE GOT MORE!!!