Electoral history of Donald Trump
This is the electoral history of Donald Trump. Trump served as the 45th president of the United States (2017–2021).
Trump first ran for President in the 2000 United States presidential election as a candidate for the Reform Party of the United States. Trump withdrew from the race before the primaries. Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election running for Republican party, but lost the popular vote. Trump lost the 2020 United States presidential election to Joe Biden. Trump won the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries and is their candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election.
2000 presidential election
[edit]During the campaign, Trump qualified for the Michigan and California Reform Party presidential primaries. Both of these elections were held after Trump exited the race.[1] On February 22, Trump won the Michigan Primary with 2,164 votes defeating uncommitted with 948 votes. Trump won the California primary on March 7 with 15,311 votes. Eventual Reform nominee Pat Buchanan was not listed on either ballot. [2][3] A slate of Trump supporters petitioned to list Trump on the New York Independence Party presidential primary ballot but were denied on a technicality.[4]
Reform Party primaries
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform Party of the United States | Donald Trump | 2,164 | 69.54% | |
| Reform Party of the United States | Uncommitted | 948 | 30.46% | |
| Total votes | 3,112 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform Party of the United States | Donald Trump | 15,311 | 44.28% | |
| Reform Party of the United States | George D. Weber | 9,390 votes | 27.16% | |
| Reform Party of the United States | Robert M. Bowman | 4,879 votes | 14.11%% | |
| Reform Party of the United States | John B. Anderson | 3,158 votes | 9.13% | |
| Reform Party of the United States | Charles E. Collins | 1,837 votes | 5.31%% | |
| Total votes | 34,575 | 100.00% | ||
2016 presidential election
[edit]Republican presidential primaries
[edit]Candidates listed received at least 0.01% of the total vote:
| Candidate | Total votes | Total delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Trump | 14,015,993 (44.95%) | 1,457 |
| Ted Cruz | 7,822,100 (25.08%) | 553 |
| John Kasich | 4,290,448 (13.76%) | 160 |
| Marco Rubio | 3,515,576 (11.27%) | 166 |
| Ben Carson | 857,039 (2.75%) | 7 |
| Jeb Bush | 286,694 (0.92%) | 4 |
| Rand Paul | 66,788 (0.21%) | 2 |
| Chris Christie | 57,637 (0.18%) | 0 |
| Mike Huckabee | 51,450 (0.16%) | 1 |
| Carly Fiorina | 40,666 (0.13%) | 1 |
| Jim Gilmore | 18,369 (0.06%) | 0 |
| Rick Santorum | 16,627 (0.05%) | 0 |
| Lindsey Graham | 5,666 (0.01%) | 0 |
| Elizabeth Gray | 5,449 (0.01%) | 0 |
General election
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Notes:
- ^ Pence received 305 electoral votes for vice president, but only 304 as part of the Trump–Pence ticket; one faithless elector from Texas voted for Ron Paul as president instead of Trump, and is recorded separately below.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Received electoral vote(s) from a faithless elector
- ^ a b c d e f g h Candidate received votes as a write-in. The exact numbers of write-in votes have been published for three states: California, New Hampshire, and Vermont.[7]
- ^ a b c Two faithless electors from Texas cast their presidential votes for Ron Paul and John Kasich, respectively. Chris Suprun said he cast his presidential vote for John Kasich and his vice presidential vote for Carly Fiorina. The other faithless elector in Texas, Bill Greene, cast his presidential vote for Ron Paul but cast his vice presidential vote for Mike Pence, as pledged. John Kasich received recorded write-in votes in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
2020 presidential election
[edit]Presidential primaries
[edit]The table below shows the four candidates that have either (a) held public office, (b) been included in a minimum of five independent national polls, or (c) received substantial media coverage. The president's challengers withdrew from the race after the primaries started, or in the case of De la Fuente, accepted one or more 3rd party nominations.[8][9][10]
| Candidates | .jpg) Donald Trump |
 Bill Weld |
.jpg) Rocky De La Fuente |
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Total delegates, pledged (unpledged/total), and votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pledged delegates (unpledged / soft total)[11] (Total awarded: 2,312)[12] |
2,311 (38 / 2,273) 90.63% |
1 (0 / 1) 0.04% |
0 (0 / 0) 0% |
0 (0 / 0) 0% |
2,443 (107 / 2,550) (90.67% awarded) 19,321,267 votes |
| Popular votes[11] | 18,159,752 (93.99%) |
454,402 (2.35%) |
108,357 (0.56%) |
173,519 (0.90%) |
General election
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Candidates are listed individually below if they received more than 0.1% of the popular vote. Popular vote totals are from the Federal Election Commission report.[13]
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Joe Biden | Democratic | Delaware | 81,283,501 | 51.31% | 306 | Kamala Harris | California | 306 |
| Donald Trump (incumbent) |
Republican | Florida | 74,223,975 | 46.85% | 232 | Mike Pence (incumbent) |
Indiana | 232 |
| Jo Jorgensen | Libertarian | South Carolina | 1,865,535 | 1.18% | 0 | Spike Cohen | South Carolina | 0 |
| Howie Hawkins | Green | New York | 407,068 | 0.26% | 0 | Angela Nicole Walker | South Carolina | 0 |
| Other | 649,552 | 0.41% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 158,429,631 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
2024 presidential election
[edit]Presidential primaries
[edit]Popular Vote
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Donald Trump | 17,015,756 | 76.42% | |
| Republican | Nikki Haley | 4,381,799 | 19.68% | |
| Republican | Ron DeSantis | 353,615 | 1.59% | |
| N/A | Uncommitted | 154,815 | 0.70% | |
| Republican | Chris Christie | 139,541 | 0.63% | |
| Republican | Vivek Ramaswamy | 96,954 | 0.44% | |
| Republican | Asa Hutchinson | 22,044 | 0.10% | |
| Republican | Perry Johnson | 4,051 | 0.02% | |
| Republican | Tim Scott | 1,598 | 0.01% | |
| Republican | Doug Burgum | 502 | 0.00% | |
| Republican | Mike Pence | 404 | 0.00% | |
| N/A | Other candidates | 93,796 | 0.42% | |
| Total votes | 22,264,875 | 100.00% | ||
See also
[edit]- Electoral history of Hillary Clinton
- Electoral history of Mike Pence
- Electoral history of Joe Biden
- Electoral history of Kamala Harris
- Electoral history of Pat Buchanan
- Electoral history of Mitt Romney
- Electoral history of George W. Bush
- Electoral history of Barack Obama
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "2000 Presidential Primary Dates by State". FEC. June 23, 2000. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ "Michigan Presidential Primary Facts and Statistics" (PDF). Michigan Department of State Bureau of Elections. June 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ "Primary 2000 – Statewide Totals". CA Secretary of State. June 2, 2000. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ Winger, Richard (December 25, 2011). "Donald Trump Ran For President in 2000 in Several Reform Party Presidential Primaries". Ballot Access News. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ a b c "FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2016 -- Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. December 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
- ^ Lau, Ryan (February 3, 2018). "Ron Paul Attacks Libertarian Leadership in Response to Controversy". 71Republic. Archived from the original on February 4, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
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- ^ CA: [2] and [3] NH: [4] VT: [5]
- ^ Burns, Alexander; Flegenheimer, Matt; Lee, Jasmine C.; Lerer, Lisa; Martin, Jonathan (January 21, 2019). "Who's Running for President in 2020?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ Scherer, Michael; Uhrmacher, Kevin; Schaul, Kevin (May 14, 2018). "Who is hoping to challenge Trump for president in 2020?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ "2020 presidential election: Track which candidates are running". Axios. January 11, 2019. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ a b "Republican Convention 2020". www.thegreenpapers.com. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ^ "The Math Behind the Republican Delegate Allocation - 2020". The Green Papers. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2020" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. October 2022.
- ^ "Republican Convention 2024". The Green Papers. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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