Statistics for U.S. Presidential Runners-Up

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Year	Winner	Runner-Up	% Correct
2020	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	100%
2016	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton	100%
1820	James Monroe	N/A	100%
2012	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	94%
1960	John F. Kennedy	Richard Nixon	94%
2000	George W. Bush	Al Gore	91%
1812	James Madison	DeWitt Clinton	91%
1992	Bill Clinton	George H.W. Bush	88%
2008	Barack Obama	John McCain	88%
1976	Jimmy Carter	Gerald Ford	82%
1980	Ronald Reagan	Jimmy Carter	82%
1792	George Washington	John Adams	76%
1800	Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	76%
1789	George Washington	John Adams	76%
1828	Andrew Jackson	John Quincy Adams	76%
1984	Ronald Reagan	Walter Mondale	76%
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Herbert Hoover	74%
1988	George H.W. Bush	Michael Dukakis	74%
1912	Woodrow Wilson	Theodore Roosevelt	74%
1796	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	74%
2004	George W. Bush	John Kerry	71%
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adlai Stevenson	68%
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adlai Stevenson	68%
1968	Richard Nixon	Hubert Humphrey	68%
1996	Bill Clinton	Bob Dole	65%
1948	Harry S. Truman	Thomas E. Dewey	62%
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Thomas E. Dewey	62%
1888	Benjamin Harrison	Grover Cleveland	59%
1824	John Quincy Adams	Andrew Jackson	56%
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	Barry Goldwater	56%
1892	Grover Cleveland	Benjamin Harrison	56%
1836	Martin Van Buren	William Henry Harrison	56%
1972	Richard Nixon	George McGovern	53%
1840	William Henry Harrison	Martin Van Buren	53%
1928	Herbert Hoover	Al Smith	44%
1896	William McKinley	William Jennings Bryan	35%
1900	William McKinley	William Jennings Bryan	35%
1908	William H. Taft	William Jennings Bryan	35%
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Alf Landon	32%
1844	James K. Polk	Henry Clay	29%
1832	Andrew Jackson	Henry Clay	29%
1860	Abraham Lincoln	John C. Breckinridge	29%
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Wendell Willkie	29%
1864	Abraham Lincoln	George B. McClellen	24%
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes	Samuel J. Tilden	24%
1808	James Madison	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	21%
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	21%
1856	James Buchanan	John C. Fremont	21%
1816	James Monroe	Rufus King	21%
1852	Franklin Pierce	Winfield Scott	21%
1924	Calvin Coolidge	John W. Davis	18%
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	Alton Brooks Parker	15%
1916	Woodrow Wilson	Charles Evans Hughes	15%
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	Horace Greeley	15%
1884	Grover Cleveland	James G. Blaine	15%
1848	Zachary Taylor	Lewis Cass	15%
1880	James A. Garfield	Winfield Scott Hancock	15%
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	Horatio Seymour	12%
1920	Warren G. Harding	James M. Cox	12%