Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1824

[Nerdlinger]

If anyone's interested, here's a brief summary of the retrospective election results so far. There have only been 8 elections out of 18 in which the winner did not have a majority of the vote here (fewer than I thought). The narrowest victory was that of Debs over Taft in 1908, whereas the biggest landslides were those of Washington in 1789 and 1792. In 1932, FDR had the widest margin of victory after Washington.

Year: Winner (Party) Vote % -- Second Place (Party) Vote % (Margin of Victory)

1789: George Washington (I) 77.87% -- John Adams (F)/John Hancock (F) 7.38% (70.49%)
1792: George Washington (I) 85.09% -- George Clinton (DR) 10.53% (74.56%)
1796: John Adams (F) 38.98% -- Thomas Jefferson (DR) 33.9% (5.08%)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (DR) 41.53% -- John Adams (F) 33.8% (7.73%)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (DR) 64.52% -- Charles Pinckney (F) 35.48% (29.04%)
1808: Charles Pinckney (F) 40.86% -- James Madison (DR) 36.56% (4.30%)
1812: James Madison (DR) 46.07% -- Rufus King (F) 28.09% (17.98%)
1816: Rufus King (F) 58.95% -- James Monroe (DR) 41.05% (17.90%)
1820: DeWitt Clinton (I) 61.80% -- James Monroe (DR) 38.20% (23.60%)

1900: Eugene Debs (SD) 43.64% -- William McKinley (R) 36.97% (6.67%)
1904: Theodore Roosevelt (R) 61.54% -- Eugene Debs (S) 28.40% (33.14%)
1908: Eugene Debs (S) 41.06% -- William Taft (R) 39.74% (1.32%)
1912: Theodore Roosevelt (P) 54.90% -- Eugene Debs (S) 30.07% (24.83%)
1916: Charles Hughes (R) 51.64% -- Allan Benson (S) 22.13% (29.51%)
1920: Eugene Debs (S) 45.99% -- James Cox (D) 26.28% (19.71%)
1924: Robert La Follette (P) 55.73% -- Calvin Coolidge (R) 27.48% (28.25%)
1928: Al Smith (D) 40.58% -- Herbert Hoover (R) 26.81% (13.77%)
1932: Franklin Roosevelt (D) 66.17% -- Norman Thomas (S) 12.78% (53.39%)

 

[Jasen777]

JQA has open a gap...