Losing Vice Presidential Nominees

Historical Presidents

There was no opposing nominee in 1820 or 1840 * Missing: Charles C. Pinckney, 1800 * Jared Ingersoll, 1812 * John E. Howard, 1816 * Richard Rush, 1828 * John Sergeant, 1832 * Francis Granger, 1836 * Theodore Frelinghuysen, 1844 * William O. Butler, 1848 * William A. Graham, 1852 * William L. Dayton, 1856 * Andrew Donelson, 1856 * Joseph Lane, 1860 * Herschel Johnson, 1860 * George H. Pendleton, 1864 * Benjamin Gratz Brown, 1872 * William H. English, 1880 * John A. Logan, 1884 * Allen G. Thurman, 1888 * Whitelaw Reid, 1892 * Arthur Sewall, 1896 * Henry G. Davis, 1904 * John W. Kern, 1908 * Hiram Johnson, 1912 * Charles W. Bryan, 1924 * Fielding L. Wright, 1948

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Vote RankingList Ranking  

10

1796

Aaron Burr

U.S. Vice President

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

1

1804

Rufus King

Patriot

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

1808

Rufus King

Patriot

100% (1 of 1 votes)

12

1824

John C. Calhoun

U.S. Vice President

50.0% (5 of 10 votes)

15

1836

John Tyler

U.S. President

40.0% (4 of 10 votes)

11

1868

Francis Preston Blair Jr.

Military Personnel

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

26

1876

Thomas Andrews Hendricks

U.S. Vice President

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

1900

Adlai Stevenson

U.S. Vice President

100% (1 of 1 votes)

27

1916

Charles W. Fairbanks

U.S. Vice President

0% (0 of 1 votes)

13

1920

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

U.S. President

48.53% (346 of 713 votes)

28

1928

Joseph T. Robinson

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

1932

Charles Curtis

U.S. Vice President

60.0% (3 of 5 votes)

29

1936

Frank Knox

Military Personnel

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

1940

Charles L. McNary

U.S. Senator

100% (2 of 2 votes)

30

1944

John W. Bricker

Politician

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

1948

Earl Warren

U.S. Chief Justice

0% (0 of 3 votes)

32

1952

John Sparkman

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

1956

Estes Kefauver

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

1960

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Diplomat

0% (0 of 0 votes)

35

1964

William E. Miller

U.S. Congressman

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

1968

Edmund Muskie

U.S. Senator

100% (1 of 1 votes)

24

1972

Gaylord Nelson

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

1976

Bob Dole

U.S. Senator

12.12% (4 of 33 votes)

22

1980

Walter Mondale

Politician

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

19

1984

Geraldine Ferraro

U.S. Congressman

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

17

1988

Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.

U.S. Senator

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

6

1992

Admiral James Stockdale

Hero

100% (2 of 2 votes)

21

1992

Dan Quayle

U.S. Vice President

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

25

1996

Jack Kemp

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

14

2000

Joseph Lieberman

U.S. Senator

47.46% (243 of 512 votes)

23

2004

John Edwards

U.S. Senator

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

18

2008

Sarah Palin

Politician

20.49% (2077 of 10136 votes)

9

2012

Paul Ryan

U.S. Congressman

55.56% (5 of 9 votes)

7

2016

Tim Kaine

U.S. Senator

100% (6 of 6 votes)

16

2020

Mike Pence

U.S. Vice President

31.80% (90 of 283 votes)