United States presidential elections in Iowa

Presidential elections in Iowa

Number of elections	45
Voted Democratic	14
Voted Republican	31
Voted other	0
Voted for winning candidate	33
Voted for losing candidate	12

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Iowa, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1846, Iowa has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [a]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
2024 [1]	Donald Trump	927,019	55.73	Kamala Harris	707,278	42.52	-			6
2020 [2]	Joe Biden	759,061	44.89	Donald Trump	897,672	53.09	—			6
2016 [3]	Donald Trump [b]	800,983	51.15	Hillary Clinton	653,669	41.74	-			6
2012 [4]	Barack Obama	822,544	51.99	Mitt Romney	730,617	46.18	-			6
2008 [5]	Barack Obama	828,940	53.93	John McCain	682,379	44.39	-			7
2004 [6]	George W. Bush	751,957	49.90	John Kerry	741,898	49.23	-			7
2000 [7]	George W. Bush [b]	634,373	48.22	Al Gore	638,517	48.54	-			7
1996 [8]	Bill Clinton	620,258	50.26	Bob Dole	492,644	39.92	Ross Perot	105,159	8.52	7
1992	Bill Clinton	586,353	43.29	George H. W. Bush	504,891	37.27	Ross Perot	253,468	18.71	7
1988	George H. W. Bush	545,355	44.50	Michael Dukakis	670,557	54.71	-			8
1984	Ronald Reagan	703,088	53.27	Walter Mondale	605,620	45.89	-			8
1980	Ronald Reagan	676,026	51.31	Jimmy Carter	508,672	38.60	John B. Anderson	115,633	8.78	8
1976	Jimmy Carter	619,931	48.46	Gerald Ford	632,863	49.47	-			8
1972	Richard Nixon	706,207	57.61	George McGovern	496,206	40.48	-			8
1968	Richard Nixon	619,106	53.01	Hubert Humphrey	476,699	40.82	George Wallace	66,422	5.69	9
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	733,030	61.88	Barry Goldwater	449,148	37.92	-			9
1960	John F. Kennedy	550,565	43.22	Richard Nixon	722,381	56.71	-			10
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	729,187	59.06	Adlai Stevenson II	501,858	40.65	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors [c]	3,202	0.26	10
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	808,906	63.75	Adlai Stevenson II	451,513	35.59	-			10
1948	Harry S. Truman	522,380	50.31	Thomas E. Dewey	494,018	47.58	Strom Thurmond	-		10
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	499,876	47.49	Thomas E. Dewey	547,267	51.99	-			10
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	578,800	47.62	Wendell Willkie	632,370	52.03	-			11
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	621,756	54.41	Alf Landon	487,977	42.7	-			11
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	598,019	57.69	Herbert Hoover	414,433	39.98	-			11
1928	Herbert Hoover	623,570	61.77	Al Smith	379,311	37.57	-			13
1924	Calvin Coolidge	537,635	55.03	John W. Davis	162,600	16.64	Robert M. La Follette	272,243	27.87	13
1920	Warren G. Harding	634,674	70.91	James M. Cox	227,921	25.46	Parley P. Christensen	10,321	1.15	13
1916	Woodrow Wilson	218,699	42.55	Charles E. Hughes	280,439	54.57	-			13
1912	Woodrow Wilson	185,325	37.64	Theodore Roosevelt	161,819	32.87	William H. Taft	119,805	24.33	13
1908	William H. Taft	275,209	55.62	William Jennings Bryan	200,771	40.58	-			13
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	308,158	63.39	Alton B. Parker	149,276	30.71	-			13
1900	William McKinley	307,808	58.04	William Jennings Bryan	209,265	39.46	-			13
1896	William McKinley	289,293	55.47	William Jennings Bryan	223,741	42.9	-			13
1892	Grover Cleveland	196,367	44.31	Benjamin Harrison	219,795	49.6	James B. Weaver	20,595	4.65	13
1888	Benjamin Harrison [b]	211,603	52.36	Grover Cleveland	179,877	44.51	-			13
1884	Grover Cleveland	177,316	47.01	James G. Blaine	197,089	52.25	-			13
1880	James A. Garfield	183,904	56.99	Winfield S. Hancock	105,845	32.8	James B. Weaver	32,327	10.02	11
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes [b]	171,326	58.50	Samuel J. Tilden	112,121	38.28	-			11
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	131,566	60.81	Horace Greeley	81,636	37.73	-			11
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	120,399	61.92	Horatio Seymour	74,040	38.08	-			8
1864	Abraham Lincoln	83,858	63.08	George B. McClellan	49,089	36.92	-			8

Election of 1860

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1860	Abraham Lincoln	70,302	54.6	Stephen A. Douglas	55,639	43.2	John C. Breckinridge	1,035	0.8	John Bell	1,763	1.4	4

Elections prior to 1860

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [a]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856	James Buchanan	37,568	40.7	John C. Frémont	45,073	48.83	Millard Fillmore	9,669	10.47	4
1852	Franklin Pierce	17,763	50.23	Winfield Scott	15,856	44.84	John P. Hale	1,606	4.54	4
1848	Zachary Taylor	9,930	44.59	Lewis Cass	11,238	50.46	Martin Van Buren	1,103	4.95	4

See also

• Elections in Iowa

Notes

1. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
2. Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
3. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina

References

1. "Official Canvass by County" (PDF). Iowa SOS. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
2. 2020 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
6. "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
7. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
8. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.