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| Keywords: PartyVotes-Presidents.png United States presidential elections The boxes which contain the year are colored in according to which party won the presidency that year Criteria for inclusion Party must have either won the presidency or have gotten more than 25 of the popular vote The name of the person who won the election and became president is listed with a gray arrow pointing to the name of a person who became president without having been elected as president 9 total of these transitions happening prior to term completion The double arrow indicates becoming president without having been elected as vice president as well Ford 5 other vice presidents who became president are underlined in black 14 total Of these 14 only 5 were elected directly into the presidency with 2 of these achieving re-election with the other 9 filling a vacancy 8 due to death 1 due to resignation Of these 9 re-election was achieved by 4 Nixon is unique in that he is the only one to become president with a gap after having left the office of Vice President Ford is unique in that he was never elected as either President or vice president This was identified as a factor in him losing his bid for re-election The black squares for the 1800 and 1824 indicate that the presidency was achieved after a tie in the electoral vote in the first case Jefferson and without having a majority of electoral votes in the second case J Q Adams In that 1824 election four candidates from the same party Democratic-Republican were voted on A blue star is shown in four elections 1824 1876 1888 and 2000 These are cases where the presidency was achieved without having a plurality of the popular vote these cases are also indicated with a double thick border around the year of that election The reason why all of these four stars are color-coded blue is because in the latter three cases the party receiving the plurality of popular votes was Democratic and while the 1824 case had Andrew Jackson in the Democratic-Republican Party receiving the plurality of votes this event led to the creation of the Democratic Party in which Jackson won the presidency in the very next election 1828 The letter 'H' indicates that the election was decided by the House of Representatives Jefferson J Q Adams and the letter 'S' indicates that the election was finalized by the Supreme Court G W Bush While the process of a presidential election being decided by the House is specifically enumerated by the Constitution there is no such power given to the Supreme Court The Supreme Court has no authority per se to decide a presidential election Its finalization of Bush was a result of their Constitutional authority to rule over a court case Bush v Gore and it is only because the election was so close with a margin of victory of hundreds of votes in a state where almost 6 million votes were cast that the ruling of 9 justices had the de facto effect of Bush being elected as president And since their decision had a 5-4 split it made for the extremely improbable case where any single justice who voted in the majority had the power to swing the ruling so this decision on whether Bush would win the election rested on a single person The asterisk next to Lincoln's name in 1864 is because for that wartime election the Republican Party chose to call themselves the National Union Party The 'Ø' symbol in 1820 indicates that there was no Federalist candidate that ran against Monroe but still got more than 16 of the popular vote This graph starts at 1788 and does not address the persons who performed the presidential roles including Head of State Executive in Chief and Commander in Chief under previous governments of the United States of America under the Articles of Confederation and prior to the 1781 ratification of that first written constitution for the country The top line of this graph has Roman numerals to indicate the election number also term number and the presidency numbers are shown as well eg Reagan-40th President <br>right 150px File Combined--Control of the U S House of Representatives - Control of the U S Senate png To see the control of the Executive Branch graphed in context with control of the House and Senate see File Combined--Control of the U S House of Representatives - Control of the U S Senate png <br><br><br>right 150px File US Presidents Map of Oaths and Exits png For a map that shows where the nine pre-term completion vice-president transitions took place see File US Presidents Map of Oaths and Exits png Data from 1788 to 1820 from http //www ourcampaigns com/ <br> Data from 1824 to 2008 from http //www uselectionatlas org/ <br> Data from 2012 from various news sources 2013-11-08 12 08 00 File PartyVotes png ChrisnHouston 120px File PartyVotes-PresidentsWhoHadBeenVicePresidents png - Same graph but highlighted to show Vice Presidents who became President<br/> 120px File PartyVotes png - Original without text<br/> 120px File US Presidential Elections by Popular Vote he svg - Reversed in Hebrew cc-zero Graphs of political parties in the United States United States presidential election statistics Presidents of the United States | ||||
