Incumbent President Richard Nixon won reelection in the 1972 presidential election defeating George McGovern. In the 1972 presidential election Richard Nixon received 520 electoral votes and George McGovern received 17 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 47,169,911 and McGovern 29,170,383. McGovern won 14 electoral votes from Massachusetts and 3 electoral votes from District of Columbia.
1) It was the first national level election to be held in the United States in 2008. 2) It was the last national level election to be held in the United States in 2008.
Alf Landon and his running mate, Frank Knox, carried two states in the 1936 election: Maine and Vermont.
Every two years, one U.S. Senate seat of each of two thirds of the states comes up for election.
Woodrow Wilson had that distinction. The last two of the 48 states, New Mexico and Arizona, were admitted in 1912 before the election, so the 1912 election was the first in which 48 states voted.
He lost the 1990 election, after being Prime Minister for only two months.
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In a two-party system such as that in the United States, this is referred to as a "third party".
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Senators in the United States are selected through direct election by the people of each state. Each state elects two Senators to represent them in the Senate. Senators serve staggered six-year terms to ensure that only one-third of the Senate is up for election every two years.
The ONLY two Federalists to win the presidential election were John Adams and of course George Washington.
The only states in the United States that have exactly two consonants in their names are Iowa and Ohio. These states have the consonants "w" and "h" in common. Other states may have two consonants, but they also have additional vowels or consonants in their names.
Those states were Pennsylvania (28) and Virginia (24).