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1868 United States presidential election in New York
In the 1868 United States presidential election in New York, Democratic nominee and former governor Horatio Seymour narrowly won the state's 33 electoral votes over Ulysses S. Grant.
1872 United States presidential election
1872 United States presidential election: incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horace Greeley, nominee of the Liberal Republicans and endorsed by Democrats; Greeley died before electors met, scattering 63 electoral votes.
1876 United States presidential election
1876 United States presidential election: Rutherford B. Hayes versus Samuel J. Tilden, resolved by an Electoral Commission awarding 20 disputed votes, giving Hayes 185 to 184 despite Tilden's popular-vote lead, ending Reconstruction.
1880 United States presidential election
The 1880 United States presidential election was won by Republican James A. Garfield, who narrowly defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock by 214 to 155 electoral votes in the closest popular vote ever recorded.
1880 United States presidential election in New York
New York's vote in the 1880 U.S. presidential election: Garfield/Arthur beat Hancock/English 555,544 to 534,511 (50.3% to 48.4%), taking all 35 electoral votes in the pivotal swing state.
1884 United States presidential election
1884 United States presidential election: Grover Cleveland (Democrat) defeated James G. Blaine (Republican), 219 to 182 electoral votes, winning New York by 1,149 votes; first Democratic presidential victory since 1856.
1888 United States presidential election
1888 US presidential election: Republican Benjamin Harrison beat incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland, winning the Electoral College 233-168 while losing the popular vote by about 90,000; tariff policy dominated, and Cleveland won the 1892 rematch.
1890 United States House of Representatives elections
1890 U.S. House elections: Democratic landslide in which Democrats took 238 of 332 seats, Republicans fell to 86, and 8 Populists entered, a reaction to the McKinley Tariff; even tariff author William McKinley lost his seat.
1892 United States presidential election
1892 U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland (Democrat) defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison (Republican) and Populist James Weaver, winning 277 electoral votes and becoming the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
1892 United States presidential election in Colorado
Colorado's 1892 presidential vote: Populist James Weaver won 53,584 votes (57.1%) and all 4 electoral votes; Grover Cleveland was not on the ballot, and Benjamin Harrison took 38,620 votes (41.1%).
1894 United States House of Representatives elections
1894 United States House of Representatives elections: midterms under Grover Cleveland during the Panic of 1893 depression, in which Democrats lost about 116 House seats (also reported as 117 or 125), Republicans took a 254-93 House majority, and the 54th Congress faced a record 38 contested-election cases.
1896 United States presidential election
1896 United States presidential election: McKinley (R) defeated William Jennings Bryan (D/Populist) in November 1896, 271-176 electoral votes, in the gold-versus-silver "battle of the standards" that began the Fourth Party System.
1898 United States House of Representatives elections
1898 U.S. House elections: wartime midterms under President McKinley during the Spanish-American War. Republicans lost 21 seats but kept the House majority (187–161 in the 357-seat 56th Congress) while gaining in the Senate.
1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1899 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate election: the General Assembly held 79 ballots from January 17 to April 20, 1899 without electing Matthew Quay, who was later appointed by the governor but refused his Senate seat, leaving the seat vacant until 1901.
1900 United States presidential election
The 1900 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan 292 to 155 electoral votes in their 1896 rematch, with Theodore Roosevelt as vice president, on issues of imperialism, free silver, and trusts.
1904 United States presidential election
The 1904 United States presidential election, held November 8, was won by incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt over Democrat Alton B. Parker, 336 electoral votes to 140.
1908 United States presidential election
1908 US presidential election: Republican William Howard Taft beat Democrat William Jennings Bryan 321-162 electoral votes, 51.6% to 43.0% popular vote; Bryan's third loss, first both-candidates campaign trail election.
1910 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1910 United States House of Representatives elections, held November 8, 1910, gave Democrats a majority of about 40 seats, ending fifteen years of Republican control.
1910–11 United States Senate elections
The 1910–11 United States Senate elections, the last full cycle under legislative election, saw Democratic gains narrowing the Senate to 52-44, a deadlocked president pro tempore fight, and Senate passage of the direct-election amendment, 64-24, on June 12, 1911.
1912 United States presidential election
1912 United States presidential election: Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) defeated Taft (Republican), Roosevelt (Progressive Bull Moose), and Debs (Socialist), winning 435 of 531 electoral votes with 41.8% after the Republican split.
1912 United States presidential election in California
California's 1912 presidential election: Roosevelt edged Wilson by 174 votes (283,610 vs 283,436), but direct election of 13 electors split the delegation 11 Roosevelt, 2 Wilson, the only divided electoral delegation of the 1912 election.
1912–13 United States Senate elections
The 1912–13 U.S. Senate elections were the last held under legislative election, coinciding with the Seventeenth Amendment's ratification in April 1913; Democrats took a 51-44 Senate majority ending 18 years of Republican control.
1916 United States presidential election
1916 US presidential election: incumbent Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall narrowly defeated Republican Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks, 277 to 254 electoral votes, decided by a 3,420-vote California plurality.
1920 United States presidential election
1920 US presidential election: Republican Warren G. Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox, 404-127 electoral votes, 60.3%-34.1% popular; first election after women's nationwide suffrage; Coolidge and FDR as running mates.
1924 Democratic National Convention
The 1924 Democratic National Convention, nicknamed "Klanbake," nominated John W. Davis on a record 103 ballots at Madison Square Garden, New York City, in 1924.
1924 United States presidential election
1924 U.S. presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge won a full term with 382 electoral votes and 54.0% of the popular vote, defeating Democrat John W. Davis (136) and Progressive Robert M. La Follette (13).
1928 United States presidential election
The 1928 U.S. presidential election: Republican Herbert Hoover beat Democrat Al Smith 444-87 electoral votes and 58.2%-40.8% popular; first Catholic major-party nominee, Prohibition and religion dominated.
1930 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1930 United States House of Representatives elections saw Democrats gain 52 seats and take the House majority by the time the 72nd Congress convened.
1932 United States presidential election
1932 U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner defeated Herbert Hoover 472–59 electoral votes, 57.4%–39.6%, beginning the New Deal coalition and Democratic realignment.
1932 United States Senate elections
1932 United States Senate elections, held November 8, 1932 with the FDR-Hoover presidential race, gave Democrats control of the previously one-vote Republican Senate, starting the New Deal realignment, with 48-47 lame-duck counts and contested Alabama, Minnesota, and Louisiana seats.