Iowa's Popular Vote for President
ELECTIONS 379 IOWA’S POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
Year Candidate Party Votes
1848 Zachary Taylor ...... Whig ...... 12,052 Lewis Cass ...... Democrat ...... 10,626
1852 Franklin Pierce ...... Democrat ...... 17,823 Winfield Scott ...... Whig ...... 15,895
1856 John C. Fremont ...... Republican ...... 45,073 James Buchanan ...... Democrat ...... 37,568
1860 Abraham Lincoln ...... Republican ...... 70,118 Stephen Douglas ...... Democrat ...... 55,639
1864 Abraham Lincoln ...... Republican ...... 88,500 George B. McClellan ...... Democrat ...... 49,525
1868 Ulysses S. Grant ...... Republican ...... 120,399 Horatio Seymour ...... Democrat ...... 74,040
1872 Ulysses S. Grant ...... Republican ...... 131,566 Horace Greeley ...... Democrat ...... 71,179
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes ...... Republican ...... 171,326 Sam J. Tilden ...... Democrat ...... 112,121
1880 James A. Garfield ...... Republican ...... 183,904 Winfield Hancock ...... Democrat ...... 105,845
1884 James G. Blaine ...... Republican ...... 197,088 Grover Cleveland ...... Democrat ...... 177,316
1888 Benjamin Harrison ...... Republican ...... 211,603 Grover Cleveland ...... Democrat ...... 197,877
1892 Benjamin Harrison ...... Republican ...... 219,795 Grover Cleveland ...... Democrat ...... 196,365
1896 William McKinley ...... Republican ...... 289,293 William J. Bryan ...... Democrat ...... 223,741
1900 William McKinley ...... Republican ...... 307,808 William J. Bryan ...... Democrat ...... 209,265
1904 Theodore Roosevelt ...... Republican ...... 307,907 Alton B. Parker ...... Democrat ...... 149,141
1908 William H. Taft ...... Republican ...... 275,210 William J. Bryan ...... Democrat ...... 200,771
1912 Woodrow Wilson ...... Democrat ...... 185,325 Theodore Roosevelt ...... Progressive ...... 161,819 William H. Taft ...... Republican ...... 119,805
1916 Charles E. Hughes ...... Republican ...... 280,439 Woodrow Wilson ...... Democrat ...... 221,699 380 IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER
1920 Warren Harding ...... Republican ...... 634,674 James M. Cox ...... Democrat ...... 227,921
1924 Calvin Coolidge ...... Republican ...... 537,458 John W. Davis ...... Democrat ...... 160,352
1928 Herbert Hoover ...... Republican ...... 623,570 Al Smith ...... Democrat ...... 379,311
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt ...... Democrat ...... 598,019 Herbert Hoover ...... Republican ...... 414,483
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt ...... Democrat ...... 621,756 Alfred Landon ...... Republican ...... 487,977
1940 Wendell Willkie ...... Republican ...... 632,370 Franklin D. Roosevelt ...... Democrat ...... 578,800
1944 Thomas Dewey ...... Republican ...... 547,267 Franklin D. Roosevelt ...... Democrat ...... 499,876
1948 Harry Truman ...... Democrat ...... 522,380 Thomas Dewey ...... Republican ...... 494,018
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower ...... Republican ...... 808,906 Adali Stevenson ...... Democrat ...... 451,513
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower ...... Republican ...... 729,187 Adlai Stevenson ...... Democrat ...... 501,858
1960 Richard M. Nixon ...... Republican ...... 722,381 John F. Kennedy ...... Democrat ...... 550,565
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson ...... Democrat ...... 733,030 Barry M. Goldwater ...... Republican ...... 449,148
1968 Richard M. Nixon ...... Republican ...... 619,106 Hubert H. Humphrey ...... Democrat ...... 476,699 George C. Wallace ...... American Independent ...... 66,422
1972 Richard M. Nixon ...... Republican ...... 706,207 George S. McGovern ...... Democrat ...... 496,206 John G. Schmitz ...... American Independent ...... 22,056
1976 Gerald R. Ford ...... Republican ...... 632,852 Jimmy Carter ...... Democrat ...... 619,874 Eugene J. McCarthy ...... Nominated by Petition ...... 19,828
1980 Ronald Reagan ...... Republican ...... 676,026 Jimmy Carter ...... Democrat ...... 508,672 John Anderson ...... Nominated by Petition ...... 115,633
1984 Ronald Reagan ...... Republican ...... 703,088 Walter F. Mondale ...... Democrat ...... 605,620
1988 Michael S. Dukakis ...... Democrat ...... 670,557 George Bush...... Republican ...... 545,355 ELECTIONS 381
1992 William J. Clinton ...... Democrat ...... 586,353 George Bush...... Republican ...... 504,891 H. Ross Perot ...... Nominated by Petition ...... 253,468
1996 William J. Clinton ...... Democrat ...... 620,258 Robert Dole ...... Republican ...... 492,644 H. Ross Perot ...... Reform ...... 105,159
IOWA’S POPULAR VOTE FOR SENATOR
United States Senators in Iowa were elected in joint session of the House and Senate of the General Assembly from 1846 to 1909. Starting in 1914, their election has been by popular vote. Terms are for six years.
Year Candidate Party Votes
1962 Bourke B. Hickenlooper ...... Republican ...... 431,364 E.B. Smith ...... Democrat ...... 376,602
1966 Jack Miller ...... Republican ...... 522,339 E.B. Smith ...... Democrat ...... 324,114
1968 Harold E. Hughes ...... Democrat ...... 574,884 David M. Stanley ...... Republican ...... 568,469
1972 Dick Clark ...... Democrat ...... 662,637 Jack Miller ...... Republican ...... 530,525 William A. Rocap, Jr...... American Independent ...... 8,954
1974 John Culver...... Democrat ...... 462,947 David M. Stanley ...... Republican ...... 420,546
1978 Roger Jepsen ...... Republican ...... 421,598 Dick Clark ...... Democrat ...... 395,066
1980 Charles E. Grassley ...... Republican ...... 683,014 John Culver...... Democrat ...... 581,545
1984 Tom Harkin ...... Democrat ...... 716,883 Roger Jepsen ...... Republican ...... 564,381
1986 Charles E. Grassley ...... Republican ...... 588,880 John P. Roehrick ...... Democrat ...... 299,406
1990 Tom Harkin ...... Democrat ...... 529,571 Tom Tauke ...... Republican ...... 453,273
1992 Charles E. Grassley ...... Republican ...... 899,761 Jean Lloyd-Jones ...... Democrat ...... 351,561 Stuart Zimmerman ...... Natural Law ...... 16,403
1996 Tom Harkin ...... Democrat ...... 634,166 Jim Ross Lightfoot ...... Republican ...... 571,807 382 IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER IOWA’S POPULAR VOTE FOR GOVERNOR
Year Candidate Party Votes
1960 Norman A. Erbe ...... Republican ...... 645,026 E. J. McManus ...... Democrat ...... 592,063
1962 Harold E. Hughes ...... Democrat ...... 430,899 Norman A. Erbe ...... Republican ...... 338,955
1964 Harold E. Hughes ...... Democrat ...... 794,610 Evan Hultman ...... Republican ...... 365,131
1966 Harold E. Hughes ...... Democrat ...... 494,259 William G. Murray ...... Republican ...... 394,518
1968 Robert D. Ray ...... Republican ...... 614,328 Paul Franzenburg ...... Democrat ...... 521,216
1970 Robert D. Ray ...... Republican ...... 403,394 Robert D. Fulton ...... Democrat ...... 368,911 Robert D. Dilley ...... American Independent ...... 18,933
1972 Robert D. Ray ...... Republican ...... 707,177 Paul Franzenburg ...... Democrat ...... 487,282 Robert D. Dilley ...... American Independent ...... 15,715
1974 Robert D. Ray ...... Republican ...... 534,518 James Schaben ...... Democrat ...... 377,553
1978 Robert D. Ray ...... Republican ...... 491,713 Jerome D. Fitzgerald ...... Democrat ...... 345,519
1982 Terry E. Branstad ...... Republican ...... 548,313 Roxanne Conlin ...... Democrat ...... 483,291
1986 Terry E. Branstad ...... Republican ...... 472,712 Lowell L. Junkins ...... Democrat ...... 436,987
1990 Terry E. Branstad ...... Republican ...... 591,852 Donald D. Avenson ...... Democrat ...... 379,372
1994 Terry E. Branstad ...... Republican ...... 566,395 Bonnie Campbell ...... Democrat ...... 414,493
1998 Tom Vilsack ...... Democrat ...... 500,231 Jim Ross Lightfoot ...... Republican ...... 444,787 Jim Hennager ...... Reform...... 5,606 Jim Schaefer ...... Natural Law ...... 3,144 Mark Kennis ...... Nominated by Petition ...... 2,006