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1936 United States presidential election
The 1936 United States presidential election was a landslide won by incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt over Republican Alf Landon, who carried only Maine and Vermont.
1936 United States presidential election in Maine
In the 1936 United States presidential election, Maine voted for Republican Alf Landon over incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of only two states, with Vermont, to resist Roosevelt's landslide.
1936 United States Senate elections
The 1936 United States Senate elections, held on November 3 alongside President Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide reelection, left Democrats with 76 seats to 16 Republicans, one of the party's largest Senate majorities.
1938 United States Senate elections
The 1938 United States Senate elections were midterms of Roosevelt's second term, in which Republicans gained 7 seats but Democrats kept control, 69 to 23.
1940 United States presidential election
The 1940 U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican Wendell Willkie 449-82 electoral votes, with Henry Wallace as vice president, amid the third-term controversy and World War II.
1942 United States Senate elections
1942 United States Senate elections, held November 3, 1942 during FDR's third term: wartime midterms in which Republicans gained nine Senate seats while Democrats kept a reduced 57-38 majority, with record-low 33.9% turnout.
1944 United States presidential election
The 1944 U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) defeated Thomas E. Dewey (R), 432-99 electoral votes, 53.4%-45.9% popular vote; Truman became vice president and president in 1945.
1944 United States Senate elections
The 1944 United States Senate elections, held during World War II, produced no net change, leaving the Senate divided 57 Democrats, 38 Republicans, and 1 Progressive.
1946 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1946 United States House of Representatives elections, held November 5, 1946, gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 15 years, gaining 55 seats.
1948 Democratic National Convention
The 1948 Democratic National Convention, held July 12–14 in Philadelphia, nominated Harry Truman and Alben Barkley, adopted a strong civil rights plank, and prompted a Dixiecrat walkout.
1948 United States presidential election
The 1948 U.S. presidential election (November 2, 1948): Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman upset Republican Thomas E. Dewey, winning 303 electoral votes to 189, with 39 for Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond; Henry Wallace ran as a Progressive; polls wrongly favored Dewey.
1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina was won by the Dixiecrat ticket of Governor Strom Thurmond, which took 71.97% of the vote and all 8 electoral votes.
1952 United States presidential election
1952 U.S. presidential election: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon defeated Democrats Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman, 442-89 electoral votes, 54.9% popular vote, first major TV-ad campaign, K1C2 and Korea pledge.
1956 United States presidential election
The 1956 U.S. presidential election: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a rematch, winning 457 electoral votes and 57.4% of the popular vote; the first campaign built heavily on TV commercials.
1958 United States Senate elections
1958 U.S. Senate elections: midterm elections under President Eisenhower in which Democrats gained 13 seats, the largest one-party transfer in Senate history, reaching 64-34 after Alaska's admission.
1960 United States presidential election
The 1960 United States presidential election pitted John F. Kennedy against Richard Nixon, with Kennedy winning 303 electoral votes and under 0.2% of the popular vote margin.
1964 United States presidential election
The 1964 US presidential election: Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry M. Goldwater in a landslide, 486 to 52 electoral votes and 61.1% of the popular vote, fixing a racial-ideological party realignment.
1964 United States Senate elections
1964 United States Senate elections: Class 1 Senate races held November 3, 1964, alongside Johnson's 486-52 electoral-vote landslide over Goldwater, months after the 73-27 Senate passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1968 United States presidential election
1968 US presidential election: Republican Richard Nixon beat Democrat Hubert Humphrey and third-party candidate George Wallace, 301-191-46 electoral votes, amid Vietnam War turmoil, the Chicago convention violence, and Wallace's five-state American Independent sweep.
1968 United States presidential election in Ohio
1968 United States presidential election in Ohio: Richard Nixon (R) won Ohio's 26 electoral votes with 1,791,014 votes (45.2%), beating Hubert Humphrey (1,700,586, 42.9%) and George Wallace (467,495, 11.8%).
1972 United States presidential election
The 1972 United States presidential election, held November 7, 1972, saw President Richard Nixon defeat Senator George McGovern in a landslide, winning 49 states and 520 electoral votes.
1974 United States Senate elections
1974 US Senate elections, held November 5, 1974 for 34 Class 3 seats after Nixon's Watergate resignation; Democrats won 61 seats to 38, and the New Hampshire Durkin-Wyman race, decided by two votes, forced a September 1975 rerun.
1976 Republican National Convention
The 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, where President Gerald Ford narrowly beat Ronald Reagan 1,187 to 1,070 on the first ballot after defeating Rule 16C, then chose Bob Dole as running mate.
1976 United States presidential election
1976 US presidential election: Jimmy Carter (D) defeated incumbent Gerald Ford (R), 297 to 240 electoral votes, 50.1% popular vote, after Ford's narrow primary win over Reagan and the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam context.
1980 United States presidential election
1980 US presidential election (November 4, 1980): Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter 489-49 electoral votes, 50.7% to 41.0%, with independent John Anderson at 6.6%; first elected incumbent defeated since 1932.
1980 United States Senate elections
1980 United States Senate elections: 34 seats contested November 4, 1980; Republicans won 22 races and 12 Democratic-held seats, taking Senate control for the first time since 1953-1955 with only 47 percent of the nationwide senatorial vote.
1984 United States presidential election
1984 US presidential election: Republican Ronald Reagan and George Bush defeated Democrats Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, the first major-party female vice presidential nominee, on November 6, 1984, winning 525 electoral votes to 13 and every state except Minnesota and Washington, DC.
1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota
1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota: Mondale-Ferraro (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) carried Mondale's home state by 3,761 votes (49.72% to 49.54%) over Reagan-Bush, the only state Reagan lost while winning 525 electoral votes.
1988 United States presidential election
1988 United States presidential election, 51st quadrennial election, November 8, 1988: Republican George Bush and Dan Quayle beat Democrat Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen, 426-111 electoral votes, 53.4% popular vote.
1988 United States presidential election in California
1988 US presidential election in California: George H.W. Bush (R) beat Michael Dukakis (D) 51.1% to 47.6%, winning all 47 electoral votes; the last Republican presidential win in California.