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An election contest is an opportunity for constituents to vote for a political party or candidate for a governmental office or seat, or the ability to run for a governmental office or seat (as is the case with primaries). For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on Election contest.
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| x United States presidential election, 2008 |
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Barack Obama | Nov 4, 2008 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior...
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| x Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008 |
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Barack Obama | 2008 | President of the United States |
The 2008 Democratic presidential primaries were the process by which the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won and became the party's...
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| x Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008 |
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John McCain | 2008 | President of the United States |
The 2008 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as...
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| x 2002 Libertarian Primary, California’s 13th Assembly District | Chris Maden | Mar 5, 2002 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2002 Election, California’s 13th Assembly District | Mark Leno | Nov 5, 2002 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2004 Libertarian Primary, California’s 12th Assembly District | Chris Maden | Mar 2, 2004 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2004 Election, California’s 12th Assembly District | Leland Yee | Nov 2, 2004 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x United States presidential election, 2000 |
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George W. Bush | Nov 7, 2000 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989–1993), and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President.
Bill...
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| x United States presidential election, 2004 |
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George W. Bush | Nov 2, 2004 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party...
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| x Surrey Cloverdale Riding 2005 | 2005 | Member of the Legislative Assembly | |||
| x United States presidential election, 1996 |
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Bill Clinton | 1996 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of...
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| x United States presidential election, 1988 |
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George H. W. Bush | Nov 8, 1988 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan could not seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W....
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| x United States presidential election, 1876 |
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Rutherford B. Hayes | 1876 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral...
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| x United States presidential election, 1789 |
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George Washington | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1788–1789 was the first presidential election in the United States of America and the only election to ever take place in a year that is not a multiple of four. The election took place following the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1792 |
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George Washington | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1792 was the second presidential election in the United States, and the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors (in addition to newly-added states of Kentucky and Vermont). It is...
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| x United States presidential election, 1796 |
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John Adams | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets. The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1800 |
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Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States |
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic...
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| x United States presidential election, 1804 |
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Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1804 pitted incumbent Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson against Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Jefferson easily defeated Pinckney in the first presidential election conducted...
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| x United States presidential election, 1808 |
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James Madison | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1808, the Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1812 |
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James Madison | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1812 took place in the shadow of the War of 1812. It featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1816 |
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James Monroe | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1824 |
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John Quincy Adams | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The previous years had seen a one-party government in the United States,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1828 |
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Andrew Jackson | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election. With no other major candidates, Jackson and his chief ally Martin Van...
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| x United States presidential election, 1832 |
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Andrew Jackson | 1832 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1832 saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky. Jackson won 219 of the 286 electoral votes cast, defeating Clay, the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1836 |
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Martin Van Buren | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1836 ushered Martin Van Buren into the White House. Martin Van Buren had 170 electoral votes.William Henry Harrison and other whigs had 122 electoral votes. Martin Van Buren had 764,000 votes. William Henry...
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| x United States presidential election, 1840 |
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William Henry Harrison | 1840 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison and his "log cabin campaign"....
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| x United States presidential election, 1844 |
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James K. Polk | 1844 | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.
Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran...
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| x United States presidential election, 1848 |
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Zachary Taylor | 1848 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1848 was an open race. President James K. Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving...
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| x United States presidential election, 1852 |
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Franklin Pierce | 1852 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1852 bore important similarities to the election of 1844. Once again, the incumbent president was a Whig who had succeeded to the presidency upon the death of his war-hero predecessor. In this case, it was...
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| x United States presidential election, 1856 |
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James Buchanan | 1856 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1856 was an unusually heated contest that led to the election of James Buchanan, the ambassador to the United Kingdom. Republican candidate John C. Frémont condemned the Kansas–Nebraska Act and crusaded...
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| x United States presidential election, 1860 |
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Abraham Lincoln | Nov 6, 1860 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election, held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
The nation had been divided...
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| x United States presidential election, 1864 |
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Abraham Lincoln | 1864 | President of the United States |
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. The election was held during the Civil War. Lincoln ran under the National Union ticket against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan, his former top...
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| x United States presidential election, 1868 |
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Ulysses S. Grant | Nov 3, 1868 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place after the American Civil War, during the period referred to as Reconstruction. Three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia...
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| x United States presidential election, 1872 |
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Ulysses S. Grant | Nov 5, 1872 | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1872, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a split within the Republican Party that...
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| x United States presidential election, 1880 |
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James Garfield | 1880 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the end of Reconstruction in Southern states carried out by the Republicans. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting...
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| x United States presidential election, 1884 |
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The United States presidential election of 1884 saw the first election of a Democrat as President of the United States since the election of 1856. The campaign was marred by exceptional political acrimony and personal invective.
New York Governor...
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| x United States presidential election, 1888 |
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The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana. The...
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| x United States presidential election, 1892 |
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In the United States presidential election of 1892, former President Grover Cleveland ran for re-election against the incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, who was also running for re-election. Cleveland defeated Harrison, thus becoming the only...
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| x United States presidential election, 1896 |
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The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American...
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| x United States presidential election, 1900 |
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The United States presidential election of 1900 was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish...
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| x United States presidential election, 1904 |
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The United States presidential election of 1904 held on November 8, 1904, resulted in the election to a full term for President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt had succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of William McKinley. The Republican...
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| x United States presidential election, 1908 |
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The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close...
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| x United States presidential election, 1912 |
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The United States presidential election of 1912 was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed...
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| x United States presidential election, 1916 |
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The United States presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I. Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the British and French (allied) forces, due to the harsh treatment of civilians...
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| x United States presidential election, 1920 |
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The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I and a hostile response to certain policies of Democratic president Woodrow Wilson, as well as the massive reaction against the reformist zeal of the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1924 |
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The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate.
Coolidge was vice-president under Warren G. Harding and became president in 1923 when Harding died in office. Coolidge was...
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| x United States presidential election, 1928 |
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The United States presidential election of 1928 pitted Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith. The Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from Anti...
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| x United States presidential election, 1932 |
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The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues...
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| x United States presidential election, 1936 |
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The United States presidential election of 1936 was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States in terms of electoral votes. In terms of the popular vote, it was the third biggest victory since the election of 1820,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1940 |
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The United States presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of World War II (in Europe) as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), a Democrat, broke with tradition and...
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| x United States presidential election, 1944 |
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The United States presidential election of 1944 took place while the United States was preoccupied with fighting World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) had been in office longer than any other president, but remained popular. Unlike...
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| x United States presidential election, 1948 |
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Harry S. Truman | Nov 2, 1948 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1948 was the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican...
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| x United States presidential election, 1952 |
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The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become...
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| x United States presidential election, 1956 |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1956 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1956 saw a popular Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully run for re-election. The 1956 election was a rematch of 1952, as Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whom Eisenhower had defeated...
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| x United States presidential election, 1960 |
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John F. Kennedy | Nov 8, 1960 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 34th American presidential election, held on November 8, 1960, for the term beginning January 20, 1961, and ending January 20, 1965. The incumbent president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1964 |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1964 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1964 was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had come to office less than a year earlier following the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. Johnson, who had...
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| x United States presidential election, 1968 |
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Richard Nixon | 1968 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Coming four years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won in a historic landslide, it saw Johnson forced out of the race and Republican...
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| x United States presidential election, 1972 |
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Richard Nixon | Nov 7, 1972 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1972 was the 47th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party's nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, who ran...
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| x United States presidential election, 1976 |
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The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against...
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| x United States presidential election, 1980 |
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The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran...
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