Chronological List of Losing Presidential Candidates of the United States

This chronological list contains entries for each presidential hopeful and the year in which they ran.

ELECTION YEAR	CANDIDATE
1796	Thomas Jefferson
1800	Aaron Burr
1804	Charles C. Pinckney
1808	Charles C. Pinckney
1812	DeWitt Clinton
1816	Rufus King
1820	John Quincy Adams
1824	Henry Clay William H. Crawford Andrew Jackson
1828	John Quincy Adams
1832	Henry Clay
1836	William H. Harrison
1840	Martin Van Buren
1844	Henry Clay
1848	Lewis Cass
1852	Winfield Scott
1856	John C. Fremont
1860	John Bell John C. Breckinridge Stephen A. Douglas
1864	George McClellan
1868	Horatio Seymour
1872	Horace Greeley
1876	Samuel J. Tilden
1880	Winfield S. Hancock
1884	James G. Blaine
1888	Grover Cleveland
1892	Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver
1896	William J. Bryan
1900	William J. Bryan
1904	Alton B. Parker
1908	William J. Bryan
1912	Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft
1916	Charles E. Hughes
1920	James M. Cox
1924	John W. Davis Robert M. Lafollette
1928	Alfred E. Smith
1932	Herbert Hoover Norman Thomas
1936	Alfred M. Landon
1940	Wendell L. Willkie
1944	Thomas E. Dewey
1948	J. Strom Thurmond Henry A. Wallace
1952	Adlai E. Stevenson
1956	Adlai E. Stevenson
1960	Richard M. Nixon
1964	Barry M. Goldwater
1968	Hubert H. Humphrey George C. Wallace
1972	George S. McGovern
1976	Gerald R. Ford
1980	John Anderson Jimmy Carter
1984	Walter F. Mondale
1988	Michael Dukakis
1992	George H. W. Bush H. Ross Perot
1996	Robert J. Dole H. Ross Perot
2000	Albert Gore Ralph Nader
2004	John Kerry Ralph Nader
2008	John McCain Ralph Nader
2012	Mitt Romney
2016	Hillary Rodham Clinton
2020	Donald Trump

Also Rans: Losing Presidential Candidates of the United States