--- description: Electoral maps dating back decades reveal a lot about political change in the U.S. as the country grew and dominant parties emerged. title: This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824 by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) and [Pratheek Rebala](/author/pratheek-rebala/) Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:06 AM CUTPublished: Nov 8, 2016 8:27 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) and [Pratheek Rebala](/author/pratheek-rebala/) Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:06 AM CUTPublished: Nov 8, 2016 8:27 PM CUT 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 "undefined")—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 "undefined") as the country grew and two dominant [political parties](http://time.com/4552683/donald-trump-gop-voter-intimidation/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined") 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. Check out election results going back nearly 200 years in the interactive below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/"},"headline":"This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824","datePublished":"2016-11-08T20:27:11.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T01:06:47.000Z","description":"Electoral maps reveal a lot about political change in the U.S.","url":"https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Pratheek Rebala","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4561347/presidential-election-results-interactive/","name":"This Map Shows How America Voted in Every Election Since 1824"}}]}] ```