PolitiFinder
Making politics slightly easier to tolerate.
Every U.S. president, senator, governor & representative. Every election, every vote.
Featured U.S. Presidents
Donald Trump
214,511,383
career popular votes
RFlorida
Joe Biden
217,726,754
career popular votes
DDelaware
Barack Obama
139,011,767
career popular votes
DIllinois
George W. Bush
117,398,427
career popular votes
RTexas
Bill Clinton
94,875,937
career popular votes
DArkansas
George H. W. Bush
188,573,736
career popular votes
RTexas
Ronald Reagan
105,540,789
career popular votes
RCalifornia
Jimmy Carter
76,932,415
career popular votes
DGeorgia
Gerald Ford
40,438,410
career popular votes
RMichigan
Richard Nixon
187,774,258
career popular votes
RCalifornia
Lyndon B. Johnson
80,184,265
career popular votes
DTexas
John F. Kennedy
37,065,164
career popular votes
DMassachusetts
Dwight D. Eisenhower
69,656,532
career popular votes
RKansas
Harry S. Truman
51,426,085
career popular votes
DMissouri
Franklin D. Roosevelt
114,331,682
career popular votes
DNew York
Herbert Hoover
37,154,031
career popular votes
RCalifornia
Calvin Coolidge
32,404,902
career popular votes
RMassachusetts
Warren G. Harding
17,050,064
career popular votes
ROhio
Woodrow Wilson
15,656,742
career popular votes
DNew Jersey
Theodore Roosevelt
19,612,323
career popular votes
RNew York
William Howard Taft
11,165,150
career popular votes
ROhio
William McKinley
15,268,585
career popular votes
ROhio
Benjamin Harrison
10,824,041
career popular votes
RIndiana
Grover Cleveland
16,507,531
career popular votes
DNew York
Chester A. Arthur
4,454,416
career popular votes
RNew York
James A. Garfield
4,606,835
career popular votes
ROhio
Rutherford B. Hayes
4,825,351
career popular votes
ROhio
Ulysses S. Grant
6,611,301
career popular votes
RIllinois
Abraham Lincoln
4,087,203
career popular votes
RIllinois
Andrew Johnson
2,374,404
career popular votes
DTennessee
James Buchanan
1,845,878
career popular votes
DPennsylvania
Millard Fillmore
2,484,964
career popular votes
WNew York
Franklin Pierce
1,601,274
career popular votes
DNew Hampshire
Zachary Taylor
1,360,099
career popular votes
WLouisiana
John Quincy Adams
669,353
career popular votes
DRMassachusetts
James K. Polk
1,517,872
career popular votes
DTennessee
John Tyler
1,275,016
career popular votes
WVirginia
Martin Van Buren
2,730,354
career popular votes
DNew York
William Henry Harrison
1,829,085
career popular votes
WOhio
Andrew Jackson
1,500,375
career popular votes
DTennessee
James Monroe
No recorded popular vote
DRVirginia
James Madison
1,308
career popular votes
DRVirginia
Thomas Jefferson
No recorded popular vote
DRVirginia
John Adams
No recorded popular vote
FMassachusetts
George Washington
No recorded popular vote
UVirginia
Each profile leads with career total popular votes across every election; open any presidential race to compare popular vote ↔ electoral vote.
Records & rankings
Candidates who won the popular vote but lost the electionThe presidential candidates who out-polled their opponent nationwide and still lost in the electoral college.Incumbent presidents who lost re-electionThe sitting U.S. presidents who ran for another term and were turned out by the voters.Most electoral votes ever won by a presidentThe most dominant electoral-college victories in U.S. history, ranked by the raw number of electoral votes the winner received.Most popular votes ever cast for a presidential candidateThe presidential candidates who drew the most raw popular votes in a single election, winners and losers alike, since turnout keeps climbing.Closest U.S. Senate elections in historyThe tightest races for the United States Senate, ranked by the narrowest margin between the top two candidates.Closest governor elections in historyThe tightest races for governor across all 50 states, ranked by the narrowest margin between the top two candidates.
See them all in records & rankings, or read about our data & sources.
Browse every election by office
U.S. PresidentEvery presidential election, 1789–present.U.S. SenateAll 50 states, 1914–present (the popular-vote era).GovernorsAll 50 states, 1789–present.U.S. HouseAll 50 states, 1788–2024, by district.
A career follows the person across offices, so someone who served in more than one role (a governor who became president, a representative who became a senator) shows a single combined lifetime vote total.