Some Facts About President Trump’s Margin of Victory
The President of the United States wants to make sure that every American is aware of the historic nature of the size of his victory in November, 2016.
I want to do my best to help him achieve this goal. As such, without editorial comment, here are the facts.
Ranking of presidential election winners by percentage of Electoral College votes :
1.Franklin Roosevelt
2.Ronald Reagan
3.Richard Nixon
4.Abraham Lincoln
5.Ronald Reagan
6.Lyndon Johnson
7.Franklin Roosevelt
8.Dwight Eisenhower
9.Franklin Pierce
10.Franklin Roosevelt
11.Herbert Hoover
12.Dwight Eisenhower
13.Woodrow Wilson
14.Franklin Roosevelt
15.Ulysses Grant
16.William Henry Harrison
17.George H. W. Bush
18.Andrew Jackson
19.Warren Harding
20.Ulysses Grant
21.Calvin Coolidge
22.Theodore Roosevelt
23.Bill Clinton
24.Bill Clinton
25.Andrew Jackson
26.Barack Obama
27.William Taft
28.William McKinley
29.Grover Cleveland
30.James Polk
31.Barack Obama
32.William McKinley
33.Abraham Lincoln
34.James Buchanan
35.Benjamin Harrison
36.James Garfield
37.Martin Van Buren
38.Harry Truman
39.Donald Trump
40.John Kennedy
41.Zachary Taylor
42.Richard Nixon
43.Jimmy Carter
44.Grover Cleveland
45.George W. Bush
46.Woodrow Wilson
47.George W. Bush
48.Rutherford Hayes
49.John Quincy Adams
Ranking of presidential election winners by margin of popular vote victory:
1.Warren Harding
2.Calvin Coolidge
3.Franklin Roosevelt
4.Richard Nixon
5.Lyndon Johnson
6.Theodore Roosevelt
7.Ronald Reagan
8.Andrew Jackson
9.Franklin Roosevelt
10.Herbert Hoover
11.Dwight Eisenhower
12.Woodrow Wilson
13.Martin Van Buren
14.Andrew Jackson
15.James Buchanan
16.Ulysses Grant
17.Dwight Eisenhower
18.Abraham Lincoln
19.Abraham Lincoln
20.Franklin Roosevelt
21.Ronald Reagan
22.William Taft
23.Bill Clinton
24.George H. W. Bush
25.Franklin Roosevelt
26.Barack Obama
27.Franklin Pierce
28.William McKinley
29.William Henry Harrison
30.Bill Clinton
31.Ulysses Grant
32.Zachary Taylor
33.Harry Truman
34.William McKinley
35.Barack Obama
36.Woodrow Wilson
37.Grover Cleveland
38.George W. Bush
39.Jimmy Carter
40.James Polk
41.Richard Nixon
42.Grover Cleveland
43.John Kennedy
44.James Garfield
45.George W. Bush
46.Benjamin Harrison
47.Donald Trump
48.Rutherford Hayes
49.John Quincy Adams
Popular Vote Totals
The top five vote totals in a Presidential election have occurred in the last four Presidential Elections. Here are those totals:
1.Barack Obama 2008 69,498,516
2.Barack Obama 2012 65,915,796
3.Hillary Clinton 2016 65,844,610
4.Donald Trump 2016 62,979,636
5.George W. Bush 2004 62,040,610
