Election results vary from year to year. Some candidates are elected with just the narrowest of margins; others win by a landslide. How did you do? Consult the chart below to see how you stack up against other candidates in previous elections. The chart lists the top ten high scores and the spread between the number of electoral votes the winning candidate received and the number of votes the losing candidates received.

The chart in the program originally has the names and results for real people. Get your name into the list by beating the real people.

The first column lists the name of the new president.

The second column lists what party he or she ran under.

The third column lists how many electoral votes he or she won by.

The fourth and fifth column list the total number of electoral votes the Democrats and Republicans received in this election.

Note: On election night (or the next day) the whole country knows who the next president will be, but the outcome is not official until the members of the electoral college travel to their state capital in December and cast their official electoral votes. Then in January at a joint session of Congress, the official results are announced from all the states.

You're old enough to remember that the election in 2000 was an exception.