National Political Party Platforms

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Of Parties Receiving Electoral Votes and Others of Significance: 1840 - 2024

Year	Party (link to document)	Download	Nominee	Electoral Votes	# Words
2024	Democratic	pdf	Kamala Harris	TBD	42,203
2024	Republican	pdf	Donald Trump	TBD	5,201
2020	Democratic	pdf	Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	306	42,092
2020	Republican (see 2016)**	pdf	Donald Trump	232	n/a
2016	Democratic	pdf	Hillary Clinton	227	26,058
2016	Republican	pdf	Donald Trump	304	35,467
2012	Democratic	pdf	Barack Obama	332	26,558
2012	Republican	pdf	Mitt Romney	206	30,563
2008	Democratic	pdf	Barack Obama	365	25,997
2008	Republican	pdf	John McCain	173	23,585
2004	Democratic	pdf	John F. Kerry	251	17,751
2004	Republican	pdf	George W. Bush	286	41,156
2000	Democratic		Albert Gore, Jr.	266	24,220
2000	Republican		George W. Bush	271	34,555
1996	Democratic		William J. Clinton	379	18,107
1996	Republican		Robert Dole	159	27,817
1992	Democratic		William J. Clinton	370	8,555
1992	Republican		George Bush	168	28,531
1988	Democratic		Michael Dukakis	111	4,838
1988	Republican		George Bush	426	35,838
1984	Democratic		Walter F. Mondale	13	37,231
1984	Republican		Ronald Reagan	525	27,383
1980	Democratic		Jimmy Carter	49	38,180
1980	Republican		Ronald Reagan	489	34,558
1976	Democratic		Jimmy Carter	297	21,202
1976	Republican		Gerald R. Ford	240	20,463
1972	Democratic		George McGovern	17	25,615
	Libertarian		John Hospers	1	2,542
	Republican		Richard Nixon	520	24,407
1968	American Independent		George Wallace	45	12,818
	Democratic		Hubert H. Humphrey	191	16,791
	Republican		Richard Nixon	301	10,013
1964	Democratic		Lyndon B. Johnson	486	20,126
1964	Republican		Barry Goldwater	52	8,740
1960	Democratic		John F. Kennedy	303	16,098
1960	Republican		Richard Nixon	219	10,680
1956	Democratic		Adlai Stevenson	73	12,839
1956	Republican		Dwight D. Eisenhower	457	11,390
1952	Democratic		Adlai Stevenson	89	8,878
1952	Republican		Dwight D. Eisenhower	442	5,988
1948	Democratic		Harry S. Truman	303	4,256
	Republican		Thomas E. Dewey	189	2,739
	States' Rights		Strom Thurmond	39	495
	Progressive		Henry A. Wallace	0	7,495
1944	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	432	1,366
1944	Republican		Thomas E. Dewey	99	4,216
1940	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	449	4,667
1940	Republican		Wendell L. Willkie	82	3,284
1936	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	523	2,310
1936	Republican		Alfred M. Landon	8	3,030
1932	Democratic		Franklin D. Roosevelt	472	1,489
1932	Republican		Herbert Hoover	59	7,832
1928	Democratic		Alfred E. Smith	87	5,613
1928	Republican		Herbert Hoover	444	7,401
1924	Democratic		John W. Davis	136	5,819
	Progressive		Robert LaFollette	13	2,004
	Republican		Calvin Coolidge	382	5,227
1920	Democratic		James M. Cox	127	7,118
1920	Republican		Warren G. Harding	404	6,391
1916	Democratic		Woodrow Wilson	277	4,570
1916	Republican		Charles E. Hughes	254	2,377
1912	Democratic		Woodrow Wilson	435	4,696
	Progressive		Theodore Roosevelt	88	4,693
	Republican		William Howard Taft	8	3,393
1908	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	162	4,555
1908	Republican		William Howard Taft	321	4,092
1904	Democratic		Alton B. Parker	140	3,058
1904	Republican		Theodore Roosevelt	336	2,254
1900	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	155	2,580
1900	Republican		William McKinley	292	2,299
1896	Democratic		William Jennings Bryan	176	1,929
1896	Republican		William McKinley	271	1,933
1892	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	277	2,510
	Populist		James B. Weaver	22	1,488
	Republican		Benjamin Harrison	145	1,342
1888	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	168	1,379
1888	Republican		Benjamin Harrison	233	2,391
1884	Democratic		Grover Cleveland	219	2,695
1884	Republican		James G. Blane	182	1,538
1880	Democratic		Winfield S. Hancock	155	692
1880	Republican		James A. Garfield	214	1,471
1876	Democratic		Samuel Tilden	184	1,867
1876	Republican		Rutherford B. Hayes	185	1,363
1872	Democratic		Horace Greeley	66*	633
	Liberal Republican		Horace Greeley	66*	624
	Republican		Ulysses S. Grant	286	1,270
1868	Democratic		Horatio Seymour	80	1,422
1868	Republican		Ulysses S. Grant	214	924
1864	Democratic		George McClellan	21	506
1864	Republican		Abraham Lincoln	212	895
1860	Constitutional Union		John Bell	39	211
	Democratic		Stephen Douglas	12	372
	Republican		Abraham Lincoln	180	1,194
	Southern Democratic		John Breckinridge	72	363
1856	American ("Know Nothing")		Millard Fillmore	8	698
	Democratic		James Buchanan	174	2,433
	Republican		John C. Fremont	114	952
	Whig		Millard Fillmore	8	566
1852	Democratic		Franklin Pierce	254	1,367
1852	Whig		Winfield Scott	42	650
1848	Democratic		Lewis Cass	127	1,865
	Whig		Zachary Taylor	163	784
	Free Soil		Martin Van Buren	0	1,183
1844	Democratic		James K. Polk	170	938
1844	Whig		Henry Clay	105	357
1840	Democratic		Martin Van Buren	60	536
* Horace Greeley died on November 29, 1872, between the date the popular votes were cast and the electoral votes were cast. 63 of his electoral votes were cast for other Democrats, while 3 were cast posthumously for Greeley. ** On June 10, 2020, the executive committee of the Republican National Committee chose not to adopt a new platform in 2020 and left the 2016 platform in place for the 2020 election. (link) On August 24, 2020, the Republican National Committee issued a resolution regarding this decision. Word counts include the preamble (if any). Excluded is the table of contents, list of committee members, and any dedication material before the preamble. Dedication material included within, or after the preamble, is included. Microsoft Word was used to compute word counts. Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Political Party Platforms of Parties Receiving Electoral Votes." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2024. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/324129 Media That Have Cited These Data: • The Washington Post—"What Republicans and Democrats Have Disagreed On, from 1856 to Today" by Ted Mellnik, Chris Alcantara and Kevin Uhrmacher. July 15, 2016