Republican Party: vote totals & records

Totals are computed at the race level: each general election is counted once, with its votes credited to the party on that ballot line. We do not add up politicians’ career totals (which would double-count presidential running mates), and we exclude primaries. Candidates who switched parties are counted under the party they ran with in each race. Where a state’s fusion voting files a major party’s nominee under a cross- endorsement line (chiefly New York and Connecticut), that vote is credited to the major party the candidate represents. We report president, U.S. Senate, governor, and U.S. House separately and never publish a single all-office total. Vote share is each party’s share of all recorded votes for that office that cycle. Presidential figures span U.S. history; Senate figures begin in 1914 under the 17th Amendment; House and governor figures extend as far back as the cross-checked record allows.