The outset American presidential election was held betwixt Dec 15th 1788 together with Jan tenth 1789. The winner was the non-partisan George Washington. Time's How America Voted inwards Every Election Since 1824 doesn't quite instruct dorsum that far inwards history precisely it does demonstrate the electoral college history for every U.S.A. election since John Quincy Adams was elected president inwards 1824.
The 1824 election was the outset fourth dimension that a candidate won the presidency without receiving a plurality of the vote. One eventual trial of this was that Andrew Jackson (who won the pop vote) eventually led a faction which split upwards from the Democratic-Republican political party to shape the Democratic Party.
The Time animated map showing how America has voted inwards every election since 1824 colors each soil inwards each election yesteryear the political party of the candidate who won the close votes. You tin hover over a soil on the map to run across which candidate won inwards the chosen twelvemonth together with how many electoral college votes that they won.
