United States presidential elections in Iowa explained

State:	Iowa
Number Of Elections:	45
Voted Democratic:	14
Voted Republican:	31
Voted Other:	0
Voted Winning:	33
Voted Losing:	12

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Iowa, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1846, Iowa has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Elections from 1864 to present

data-sort-type="number"	Year	Winner (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Other national candidates	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	data-sort-type="number"	Electoral Votes	Notes
2020^[1]		759,061	44.89	Donald Trump	897,672	53.09	—			6
2016^[2]	Donald Trump	800,983	51.15		653,669	41.74	-			6
2012^[3]	Barack Obama	822,544	51.99		730,617	46.18	-			6
2008^[4]	Barack Obama	828,940	53.93		682,379	44.39	-			7
2004^[5]	George W. Bush	751,957	49.90		741,898	49.23	-			7
2000^[6]		634,373	48.22	Al Gore	638,517	48.54	-			7
1996^[7]	Bill Clinton	620,258	50.26		492,644	39.92		105,159	8.52	7
	Bill Clinton	586,353	43.29		504,891	37.27		253,468	18.71	7
		545,355	44.50	Michael Dukakis	670,557	54.71	-			8
	Ronald Reagan	703,088	53.27		605,620	45.89	-			8
	Ronald Reagan	676,026	51.31		508,672	38.60		115,633	8.78	8
		619,931	48.46	Gerald Ford	632,863	49.47	-			8
	Richard Nixon	706,207	57.61		496,206	40.48	-			8
	Richard Nixon	619,106	53.01		476,699	40.82		66,422	5.69	9
	Lyndon B. Johnson	733,030	61.88		449,148	37.92	-			9
		550,565	43.22	Richard Nixon	722,381	56.71	-			10
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	729,187	59.06		501,858	40.65		3,202	0.26	10
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	808,906	63.75		451,513	35.59	-			10
	Harry S. Truman	522,380	50.31		494,018	47.58		-		10
		499,876	47.49	Thomas E. Dewey	547,267	51.99	-			10
		578,800	47.62	Wendell Willkie	632,370	52.03	-			11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	621,756	54.41		487,977	42.7	-			11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	598,019	57.69		414,433	39.98	-			11
	Herbert Hoover	623,570	61.77		379,311	37.57	-			13
	Calvin Coolidge	537,635	55.03		162,600	16.64		272,243	27.87	13
	Warren G. Harding	634,674	70.91		227,921	25.46		10,321	1.15	13
		218,699	42.55	Charles E. Hughes	280,439	54.57	-			13
	Woodrow Wilson	185,325	37.64		161,819	32.87		119,805	24.33	13
	William H. Taft	275,209	55.62		200,771	40.58	-			13
	Theodore Roosevelt	308,158	63.39		149,276	30.71	-			13
	William McKinley	307,808	58.04		209,265	39.46	-			13
	William McKinley	289,293	55.47		223,741	42.9	-			13
		196,367	44.31	Benjamin Harrison	219,795	49.6		20,595	4.65	13
	Benjamin Harrison	211,603	52.36		179,877	44.51	-			13
		177,316	47.01	James G. Blaine	197,089	52.25	-			13
	James A. Garfield	183,904	56.99		105,845	32.8		32,327	10.02	11
	Rutherford B. Hayes	171,326	58.50		112,121	38.28	-			11
	Ulysses S. Grant	131,566	60.81		81,636	37.73	-			11
	Ulysses S. Grant	120,399	61.92		74,040	38.08	-			8
	Abraham Lincoln	83,858	63.08		49,089	36.92	-			8

Election of 1860

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

data-sort-type="number"	Year	Winner (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	data-sort-type="number"	Electoral Votes
style"text-align:left"	1860	Abraham Lincoln	70,302	54.6	Stephen A. Douglas	55,639	43.2	John C. Breckinridge	1,035	0.8	John Bell	1,763	1.4	4

Elections prior to 1860

data-sort-type="number"	Year	Winner (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Other national candidates	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	data-sort-type="number"	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856		37,568	40.7	John C. Frémont	45,073	48.83		9,669	10.47	4
1852	Franklin Pierce	17,763	50.23		15,856	44.84		1,606	4.54	4
1848		9,930	44.59	Lewis Cass	11,238	50.46		1,103	4.95	4

See also

• Elections in Iowa

Notes and References

1. News: Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins. The New York Times. 3 November 2020 . November 15, 2020.
2. https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf 2016 official Federal Election Commission report
3. http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf 2012 official Federal Election Commission report
4. http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf 2008 official Federal Election Commission report
5. Web site: Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. May 2005 . Federal Elections Commission.
6. Web site: 2000 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
7. Web site: 1996 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.