--- title: Election Map: How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 description: Electoral maps dating back decades reveal a lot about political change in the U.S. as the country grew and dominant parties emerged. canonical: https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T20:27:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T01:06:47.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 og:description: Electoral maps reveal a lot about political change in the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 twitter:description: Electoral maps reveal a lot about political change in the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) and [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:06 AM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2016 8:27 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) and [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:06 AM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2016 8:27 PM UTC The U.S. wasn’t always [divided between blue and red states](http://time.com/4560399/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-final-day-polls/?xid=homepage)—the parties that dominated the national conversation once included Whig, National Republican, Democratic-Republican and more. Electoral maps dating back decades reveal a lot about [political change in the U.S.](http://time.com/4561301/donald-trump-twitter-barack-obama/?xid=homepage) as the country grew and two dominant [political parties](http://time.com/4552683/donald-trump-gop-voter-intimidation/) emerged. In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won the Electoral College tally by taking traditionally Democratic states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. For some presidents, elections ended in landslide wins. Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1936 election with 523 electoral votes, while his [opponent](http://time.com/4560707/donald-trump-election-loss-rigged/) Alfred M. Landon received 8\. Decades later, the country turned almost entirely red, when incumbent Republican candidate Ronald Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, with 525 electoral votes. He was the second candidate to do so, following Richard Nixon, who took 520 electoral votes in the 1972 election. 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