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Since 1824, how many winning presidential candidates have lost their home state?
a. Zero
b. One
c. Three
d. Five

Since the popular vote was first recorded in 1824, there have been three candidates who won the presidency without carrying their home state: James Polk (D-Tenn.) in 1844, Woodrow Wilson (D-N.J.) in 1916, and Donald Trump (R-N.Y.) in 2016.

The best home-state performance in presidential election history was Andrew Jackson's (D-Tenn.) 95.42% of the vote in Tennessee during his re-election campaign in 1832, up from 95.19% in 1828. Jackson is the only presidential candidate to have won over 90% of the vote in his home state. Since 1900, seven winning presidential candidates have received 60% or more of the vote in their home states: Calvin Coolidge (R-Mass.) in 1924, Herbert Hoover (R-Calif.) in 1928, John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 1960, Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) in 1964, Jimmy Carter (D-Ga.) in 1976, George W. Bush (R-Texas) in 2004, and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in 2008.

Four winning presidential candidates carried their home state without winning a majority of the vote; Grover Cleveland (D-N.Y.) in 1884 and 1892, Benjamin Harrison (R-Ind.) in 1888, Woodrow Wilson (D-N.J.) in 1912, and Richard Nixon (R-Calif.) in 1968.[1] The average home-state vote share across all winning presidential candidates between 1824 and 2016 is 56.23%.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, "Presidential Election Results," accessed August 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, "The Presidents," accessed August 19, 2019
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