Several former, incumbent, or future presidents have unsuccessfully sought the presidency. Similarly, in the presidential election of 1836, the Whig Party did not unify around a single candidate and two different Whig candidates competed in multiple states in the general election. In the 1824 presidential election, four Democratic-Republicans competed in multiple states in the general election as the party was unable to agree on a single nominee. In the presidential election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe of the Democratic-Republican Party effectively ran unopposed.
In the 1812 presidential election, DeWitt Clinton served as the de facto Federalist nominee even though he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party Clinton was defeated by Democratic-Republican President James Madison. There were no major party candidates for president in the presidential election of 1789 and the presidential election of 1792, both of which were won by George Washington. These six parties have nominated candidates in the vast majority of presidential elections, but six presidential elections deviate from the normal pattern of two major party candidates. At various points prior to the American Civil War, the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party were major parties. The two current major parties are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties of the two-party system have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S.
There have been five presidential elections in which the winner did not win a majority or a plurality of the popular vote. Since 1824, the national popular vote has been recorded, but the national popular vote does not determine the winner of the presidential election. Under the rules established by the Twelfth Amendment, if no individual wins a majority of the electoral vote, then the United States House of Representatives holds a contingent election to determine the election winner contingent elections have decided the winners of two presidential elections. Since the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment prior to the 1804 presidential election, the winner of any given presidential election is the candidate that receives the majority of the electoral vote. Additionally, since 1796, eight third party or independent candidates have won at least ten percent of the popular or electoral vote, but all failed to win the presidency. Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, there have been 52 unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States. Popular vote of political parties in United States presidential elections
Constitution of the United States, Amendment 25, Section 3ĪLSO SEE our essay and documentation on the related STATISTICS Page.For a list of all presidential candidates, see List of United States presidential candidates.
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"Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President."
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