| Election year |
President |
Opponent |
| 1789 | George Washington | John Adams |
| 1792 | George Washington | John Adams |
| 1796 | John Adams (Federalist) | Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) |
| 1800 | Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) | John Adams (Federalist) |
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) | Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) |
| 1808 | James Madison (Democratic-Republican) | Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) |
| 1812 | James Madison (Democratic-Republican) | DeWitt Clinton (Federalist) |
| 1816 | James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) | Rufus King (Federalist) |
| 1820 | James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) | (unopposed) |
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams (Whig) | Andrew Jackson (Democrat) |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson (Democrat) | John Quincy Adams (Whig) |
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson (Democrat) | Henry Clay (Whig) |
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren (Democrat) | William Henry Harrison (Whig) |
| 1840 | William Henry Harrison (Whig) | Martin Van Buren (Democrat) |
| 1844 | James K. Polk (Democrat) | Henry Clay (Whig) |
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor (Whig) | Lewis Cass (Democrat) |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce (Democratic) | Winfield Scott (Whig) |
| 1856 | James Buchanan (Democratic) | John C. Fremont (Republican) |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln (Republican) | John C. Breckinridge (Democratic) |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln (Republican) | George B. McClellan (Democrat) |
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) | Horatio Seymour (Democratic) |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) | Horace Greeley (Democrat) |
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) | Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) |
| 1880 | James Garfield (Republican) | Winfield S. Hancock (Democrat) |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (Democrat) | James G. Blaine (Republican) |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison (Republican) | Grover Cleveland (Democrat) |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (Democrat) | Benjamin Harrison (Republican) |
| 1896 | William McKinley (Republican) | William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) |
| 1900 | William McKinley (Republican) | William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) | Alton B. Parker (Democrat) |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft (Republican) | William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) | Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) |
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) | Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding (Republican) | James M. Cox (Democrat) |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge (Republican) | John W. Davis (Democrat) |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (Republican) | Alfred E. Smith (Democrat) |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) | Herbert Hoover (Republican) |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) | Alfred M. Landon (Republican) |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) | Wendell L. Wilkie (Republican) |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) | Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) |
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman (Democrat) | Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) | Adlai Stevenson (Democrat) |
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) | Adlai Stevenson (Democrat) |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy (Democrat) | Richard M. Nixon (Republican) |
| 1964 | Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) | Barry M. Goldwater (Republican) |
| 1968 | Richard M. Nixon (Republican) | Hubert H. Humphrey (Democrat) |
| 1972 | Richard M. Nixon (Republican) | George McGovern (Democrat) |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter (Democrat) | Gerald R. Ford (Republican) |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan (Republican) | Jimmy Carter (Democrat) |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan (Republican) | Walter F. Mondale (Democrat) |
| 1988 | George Bush (Republican) | Michael S. Dukakis (Democrat) |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton (Democrat) | George Bush (Republican) |
| 1996 | Bill Clinton (Democrat) | Bob Dole (Republican) |
| 2000 | George W. Bush (Republican) | Al Gore (Democrat) |