Incorrect

Sorry! You didn't pick the right answer.
We're sure you'll do better next time. Find the correct answer below.

Trivia answer

Which was the most recent presidential election where both parties renominated their candidates from the last election?
a. 1892
b. 1836
c. 1956
d. 1972

Since nominating conventions were first adopted in the 1832 presidential election, there have been four elections where both major parties renominated their candidate from the last election. The most recent such election was in 1956, when the Republican Party renominated incumbent Dwight Eisenhower and the Democratic Party nominated Adlai Stevenson II, setting up a rematch of the 1952 election. As in the 1952 election, Eisenhower defeated Stevenson to win re-election.

In the 1900 election, the Democratic Party nominated William Jennings Bryan to run against incumbent William McKinley (R) in a rematch of the 1896 election. McKinley won both elections.

The other presidential rematches had a mixed result. In 1888, Benjamin Harrison (R) defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland (D). Cleveland won the Democratic nomination to challenge Harrison in 1892 and defeated him to become the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. In 1836, Harrison's grandfather William Henry Harrison won the Whig nomination to run against Martin Van Buren (D). While Van Buren defeated Harrison in 1836, Harrison unseated him in 1840.

A fifth rematch election took place before the convention system had developed. In 1824, John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay to win the presidency. All four candidates had run as members of the Democratic-Republican Party. In 1828, Jackson (D) defeated Adams (National Republican) to win the presidency.