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Here are some interesting statistics from five past elections. The table shows for each state how many electoral votes the Republicans received and how many electoral votes the Democrats received. It also shows what percentage of the voters voted Republican and what percentage of the voters voted Democratic.

Click the Reference tool and then click Results.

For each state, the table shows the number of electoral votes cast for each of the candidates and the proportion of the popular vote cast for each candidate.

To view the winner of a previous election:

Click an election year in the upper left corner to select it. This will display the vote totals of the winning party at the top of your screen. The first number in blue (Democrat) or red (Republican) is the total electoral votes the winning party received, and the second number is the total number of states the winning party received.(Remember that Washington D.C. counts as a state for this purpose.)

To sort alphabetically by state:

Click Sort
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To sort by electoral votes by state:

Click Sort
Select Electoral Votes

To sort by highest percentage of popular vote for one of the parties:

Click Sort
Select Dem Part or Rep Par

Note: You can compare your score at the end of your campaign to other candidates who ran in previous elections. Was your race as close as the one in 2000? Did you get as much of the popular vote as Reagan did in 1984? (In 1984, Reagan had the highest popular vote of all time 54,455,075, and he was the candidate with the highest electoral vote in this same election 525. Reagan carried 49 states in 1984, the same number Nixon carried in the election of 1972.)

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See Also:
State Winners
Popular Vote