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Which of the following presidential candidates did not carry any state by a margin larger than 90%?
a. Andrew Jackson
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Dwight Eisenhower

The only candidate above who did not carry a state by a margin of more than 90% was Dwight Eisenhower (R), whose largest-ever margin of victory was 44.35% in Vermont in 1956.

An electoral margin-of-victory (MOV) is the difference between the share of votes cast for the winning candidate and the second-place candidate in an election. For example, if Candidate A wins an election with 55 percent of the vote and Candidate B, the second-place finisher, wins 45 percent of the vote, the winner's margin of victory is 10 percent.

Andrew Jackson (D) carried his home state of Tennessee by a margin of 90% or more in each of his three runs for the presidency (1824, 1828, and 1832). Jackson carried Georgia by a similar margin in 1828 and Tennessee in 1832. In the 1832 election, Jackson was the only candidate on the ballot in Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri and therefore won 100% of the vote, making it the only election since the popular vote was first recorded in 1824 where a candidate won every vote in a state.

In both the 1912 and the 1916 elections, Woodrow Wilson (D) carried South Carolina by a margin of 90% or greater. Meanwhile, Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) carried South Carolina and Mississippi by 90% or more in 1932, 1936, and 1940.

South Carolina has been the state with the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate in 12 elections, the most of any state. South Carolina's largest margins all took place around the turn of the 20th century; it had the largest margin of any state in 1884 and 1888, as well as in each of the 10 elections between 1900 and 1936.

The District of Columbia was carried by a larger margin than any state in 12 of the 14 elections since it first participated in the 1964 presidential election, including every election from 1976 on.

See the below table for information on which state was decided by the largest margin in each presidential election since 1824.

  1. ↑ Thurmond was the nominee of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
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