United States presidential elections in New Hampshire

Presidential elections in New Hampshire

Number of elections	59
Voted Democratic	20
Voted Republican	28
Voted Democratic-Republican	5
Voted Federalist	4
Voted other	2 [lower-alpha 1]
Voted for winning candidate	43
Voted for losing candidate	16

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in New Hampshire, ordered by year.

Winners of the state are in bold.

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [lower-alpha 2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
2020 [1]	Joe Biden	424,921	52.71	Donald Trump	365,654	45.36	—			4
2016 [2]	Donald Trump [lower-alpha 3]	345,790	46.46	Hillary Clinton	348,526	46.83	—			4
2012 [3]	Barack Obama	369,561	51.98	Mitt Romney	329,918	46.40	—			4
2008 [4]	Barack Obama	384,826	54.13	John McCain	316,534	44.52	—			4
2004 [5]	George W. Bush	331,237	48.87	John Kerry	340,511	50.24	—			4
2000 [6]	George W. Bush [lower-alpha 3]	273,559	48.07	Al Gore	266,348	46.80	—			4
1996 [7]	Bill Clinton	246,214	49.32	Bob Dole	196,532	39.37	Ross Perot	48,390	9.69	4
1992	Bill Clinton	209,040	38.91	George H. W. Bush	202,484	37.69	Ross Perot	121,337	22.59	4
1988	George H. W. Bush	281,537	62.49	Michael Dukakis	163,696	36.33	—			4
1984	Ronald Reagan	267,051	68.66	Walter Mondale	120,395	30.95	—			4
1980	Ronald Reagan	221,705	57.74	Jimmy Carter	108,864	28.35	John B. Anderson	49,693	12.94	4
1976	Jimmy Carter	147,635	43.47	Gerald Ford	185,935	54.75	—			4
1972	Richard Nixon	213,724	63.98	George McGovern	116,435	34.86	—			4
1968	Richard Nixon	154,903	52.10	Hubert Humphrey	130,589	43.93	George Wallace	11,173	3.76	4
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	184,064	63.89	Barry Goldwater	104,029	36.11	—			4
1960	John F. Kennedy	137,772	46.58	Richard Nixon	157,989	53.42	—			4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	176,519	66.11	Adlai Stevenson II	90,364	33.84	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors [lower-alpha 4]	111	0.04	4
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	166,287	60.92	Adlai Stevenson II	106,663	39.08	—			4
1948	Harry S. Truman	107,995	46.66	Thomas E. Dewey	121,299	52.41	Strom Thurmond	7 [lower-alpha 5]	<0.01	4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	119,663	52.11	Thomas E. Dewey	109,916	47.87	—			4
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	125,292	53.22	Wendell Willkie	110,127	46.78	—			4
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	108,460	49.73	Alf Landon	104,642	47.98	—			4
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	100,680	48.99	Herbert Hoover	103,629	50.42	—			4
1928	Herbert Hoover	115,404	58.65	Al Smith	80,715	41.02	—			4
1924	Calvin Coolidge	98,575	59.83	John W. Davis	57,201	34.72	Robert M. La Follette	8,993	5.46	4
1920	Warren G. Harding	95,196	59.84	James M. Cox	62,662	39.39	Parley P. Christensen	—	—	4
1916	Woodrow Wilson	43,781	49.12	Charles E. Hughes	43,725	49.06	—			4
1912	Woodrow Wilson	34,724	39.48	Theodore Roosevelt	17,794	20.23	William H. Taft	32,927	37.43	4
1908	William H. Taft	53,149	59.32	William Jennings Bryan	33,655	37.56	—			4
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	54,163	60.07	Alton B. Parker	34,074	37.79	—			4
1900	William McKinley	54,799	59.33	William Jennings Bryan	35,489	38.42	—			4
1896	William McKinley	57,444	68.66	William Jennings Bryan	21,650	25.88	—			4
1892	Grover Cleveland	42,081	47.11	Benjamin Harrison	45,658	51.11	James B. Weaver	293	0.33	4
1888	Benjamin Harrison [lower-alpha 3]	45,728	50.34	Grover Cleveland	43,456	47.84	—			4
1884	Grover Cleveland	39,198	46.34	James G. Blaine	43,254	51.14	—			4
1880	James A. Garfield	44,856	51.94	Winfield S. Hancock	40,797	47.24	James B. Weaver	528	0.61	5
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes [lower-alpha 3]	41,540	51.83	Samuel J. Tilden	38,510	48.05	—			5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	37,168	53.94	Horace Greeley	31,425	45.61	—			5
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	37,718	55.2	Horatio Seymour	30,575	44.8	—			5
1864	Abraham Lincoln	36,596	52.6	George B. McClellan	33,034	47.4	—			5

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	37,519	56.9	Stephen A. Douglas	25,887	39.3	John C. Breckinridge	2,125	3.2	John Bell	412	0.6	5

Elections from 1828 to 1856

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [lower-alpha 2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856	James Buchanan	31,891	45.71	John C. Frémont	37,473	53.71	Millard Fillmore	410	0.59	5
1852	Franklin Pierce	28,503	56.4	Winfield Scott	15,486	30.64	John P. Hale	6,546	12.95	5
1848	Zachary Taylor	14,781	29.5	Lewis Cass	27,763	55.41	Martin Van Buren	7,560	15.09	6
1844	James K. Polk	27,160	55.22	Henry Clay	17,866	36.32	—			6
1840	William Henry Harrison	26,310	43.88	Martin Van Buren	32,774	54.66	—			7
1836	Martin Van Buren	18,697	75.01	William Henry Harrison	6,228	24.99	various [lower-alpha 6]			7
1832	Andrew Jackson	24,855	56.67	Henry Clay	18,938	43.24	William Wirt	no ballots		7
1828	Andrew Jackson	20,212	45.9	John Quincy Adams	23,823	54.1	—			8

Election of 1824

The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become President, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1824	Andrew Jackson	no ballots		John Quincy Adams	9,389	93.59	Henry Clay		no ballots	William H. Crawford	643	6.41	8

Elections from 1788-89 to 1820

In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed. The popular vote was primarily directed to filling the office of Vice President. The sole electoral vote against Monroe came from William Plumer, an elector from New Hampshire and former United States senator and New Hampshire governor. Plumer cast his electoral ballot for Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. While some accounts claim incorrectly that this was to ensure that George Washington would remain the only American president unanimously chosen by the Electoral College, that was not Plumer's goal. In fact, Plumer simply thought that Monroe was a mediocre president and that Adams would be a better one. ^[8] Plumer also refused to vote for Tompkins for Vice President as "grossly intemperate", not having "that weight of character which his office requires," and "because he grossly neglected his duty" in his "only" official role as President of the Senate by being "absent nearly three-fourths of the time"; ^[9] Plumer instead voted for Richard Rush.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Runner-up (nationally)	Electoral Votes	Notes
1820	James Monroe	—	9	Monroe effectively ran unopposed. One elector voted for John Quincy Adams (see above).
1816	James Monroe	Rufus King	8
1812	James Madison	DeWitt Clinton	8
1808	James Madison	Charles C. Pinckney	7
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Charles C. Pinckney	7
1800	Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	6
1796	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	6
1792	George Washington	—	6	Washington effectively ran unopposed.
1788-89	George Washington	—	5	Washington effectively ran unopposed.

See also

• New Hampshire portal

• Elections in New Hampshire

Notes

1. George Washington, 1788-89, 1792.
2. 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.
3. Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
4. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
5. As a write-in candidate
6. Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were Hugh Lawson White, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in New Hampshire.

References

1. "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times . 3 November 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
2. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. "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.
6. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
7. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
8. Turner (1955) p 253.
9. "Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President (1817-1825)" United States Senate web site.