Non-voters compared to voters in presidential elections
Year	Voting age	Cast Ballots	% CB	Non-voters	% of EV	% Non-voters compared to 'Winner'	Winner (of Cast Ballots)	Cast Ballots	% of EV	Second Place Candidate	Cast Ballots	% of EV	Third Place Candidate		Cast Ballots	% of EV	Other	% of EV
2012	235,248,000	129,218,783	0.549	106,029,217	0.451	161%	Barack Obama (D)	65,917,257	0.280	Mitt Romney (R)	60,932,235	0.259	Gary Johnson (Libertarian)		1,275,893	0.005	1,093,398	0.005
2008	225,499,000	131,237,603	0.582	94,261,397	0.418	136%	Barack Obama (D)	69,456,897	0.308	John McCain (R)	59,934,814	0.266	Ralph Nader (Independent)		738,771	0.003	1,845,892	0.008
2004	215,694,000	122,267,553	0.567	93,426,447	0.433	151%	George W. Bush (R)	62,040,610	0.288	John F. Kerry (D)	59,028,444	0.274	Ralph Nader (Reform/Populist/Independent)		465,650	0.002	732,849	0.003
2000	202,609,000	105,405,100	0.520	97,203,900	0.480	191%	George W. Bush (R)	50,999,897	0.252	Al Gore (D)	50,456,002	0.249	Ralph Nader (Green)		2,882,955	0.014	1,066,246	0.005
1996	193,651,000	96,277,634	0.497	97,373,366	0.503	205%	William 'Bill' Clinton	47,402,357	0.245	Robert 'Bob' Dole	39,198,755	0.202	Henry Ross Perot (Reform)	Reform(c)	8,085,402	0.042	1,591,120	0.008
1992	189,493,000	104,423,923	0.551	85,069,077	0.449	189%	William 'Bill' Clinton	44,909,806	0.237	George H.W. Bush	39,104,550	0.206	Henry Ross Perot (Reform)		19,743,821	0.104	665,746	0.004
1988	181,956,000	91,594,686	0.503	90,361,314	0.497	185%	George H.W. Bush	48,886,597	0.269	Michael S. Dukakis	41,809,476	0.230	Ron Paul (Libertarian)		431,750	0.002	466,863	0.003
1984	173,995,000	92,653,233	0.533	81,341,767	0.467	149%	Ronald Reagan (R)	54,455,472	0.313	Walter Mondale	37,577,352	0.216	David Bergland (Libertarian)		228,111	0.001	392,298	0.002
1980	163,945,000	86,574,904	0.528	77,370,096	0.472	176%	Ronald Reagan (R)	43,903,230	0.268	James 'Jimmy' Carter, Jr.	35,480,115	0.216	John Bayard Anderson		5,719,850	0.035	1,471,709	0.009
1976	152,308,000	81,531,584	0.535	70,776,416	0.465	173%	James 'Jimmy' Carter, Jr.	40,831,881	0.268	Gerald Ford	39,148,634	0.257	Eugene McCarthy		740,460	0.005	810,609	0.005
1972	140,777,000	77,744,027	0.552	63,032,973	0.448	134%	Richard Nixon	47,168,710	0.335	George McGovern	29,173,222	0.207	John G. Schmitz (American Independent)		1,100,868	0.008	301,227	0.002
1968	120,285,000	73,199,998	0.609	47,085,002	0.391	148%	Richard Nixon	31,783,783	0.264	Hubert Humphrey	31,271,839	0.260	George Wallace (American Independent)		9,901,118	0.082	243,258	0.002
1964	114,090,000	70,651,298	0.619	43,438,702	0.381	101%	Lyndon Johnson	43,127,041	0.378	Barry Goldwater	27,175,754	0.238	Eric Hass (Socialist Labor)		45,189	0.000	303,314	0.003
1960	109,672,000	68,895,628	0.628	40,776,372	0.372	119%	John Kennedy	34,220,984	0.312	Richard Nixon	34,108,157	0.311	Orval Faubus ('States' Rights)		44,984	0.000	521,503	0.005
1956	104,515,000	62,021,328	0.593	42,493,672	0.407	119%	Dwight Eisenhower	35,579,180	0.340	Adlai Stevenson II	26,028,028	0.249	T. Coleman Andrews (States' Rights)		107,929	0.001	306,191	0.003
1952	99,929,000	61,769,147	0.618	38,159,853	0.382	112%	Dwight Eisenhower	34,075,529	0.341	Adlai Stevenson II	27,375,090	0.274	Vincent Hallinan ('Progressive)		140,746	0.001	177,782	0.002
1948	95,573,000	48,793,535	0.511	46,779,465	0.489	193%	Harry Truman	24,179,347	0.253	Thomas Dewey	21,991,292	0.230	James Thurmond (Dixiecrat)		1,175,930	0.012	1,446,966	0.015
1944	85,654,000	47,977,063	0.560	37,676,937	0.440	147%	Franklin Roosevelt	25,612,916	0.299	Thomas Dewey	22,017,929	0.257	Norman Thomas (Socialist)		79,017	0.001	267,201	0.003
1940	84,728,000	49,902,113	0.589	34,825,887	0.411	128%	Franklin Roosevelt	27,313,945	0.322	Wendell Willkie	22,347,744	0.264	Norman Thomas (Socialist)		116,599	0.001	123,825	0.001
1936	80,174,000	45,647,699	0.569	34,526,301	0.431	124%	Franklin Roosevelt	27,752,648	0.346	Alfred Landon	16,681,862	0.208	William Lemke (Union)		892,378	0.011	320,811	0.004
1932	75,768,000	39,751,898	0.525	36,016,102	0.475	158%	Franklin Roosevelt	22,821,277	0.301	Herbert Hoover	15,761,254	0.208	Norman Thomas (Socialist)		884,885	0.012	284,482	0.004
1928	64,687,191	36,807,012	0.569	27,880,179	0.431	130%	Herbert Hoover (Republican)	21,427,123	0.331	Alfred E. Smith (Democratic)	15,015,464	0.232	Norman Thomas (Socialist)		267,478	0.004	96,947	0.001
1924	59,553,030	29,121,432	0.489	30,431,598	0.511	194%	(John) Calvin Coolidge (Republican)	15,723,789	0.264	John W Davis (Democratic)	8,386,242	0.141	Robert M LaFollette (Progressive)		4,831,706	0.081	179,695	0.003
1920	54,400,772	26,765,180	0.492	27,635,592	0.508	171%	Warren G Harding (Republican)	16,144,093	0.297	James Cox (Democratic)	9,139,661	0.168	Eugene Debs (Socialist)		913,693	0.017	567,733	0.010
1916	30,091,859	18,536,585	0.616	11,555,274	0.384	127%	(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)	9,126,868	0.303	Charles Hughes (Republican)	8,548,728	0.284	Allan L Benson (Socialist)		590,524	0.020	270,465	0.009
1912	25,593,255	15,048,834	0.588	10,544,421	0.412	167%	(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)	6,296,284	0.246	Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)	4,122,721	0.161	William Howard Taft (Republican)		3,486,242	0.136	1,143,587	0.045
1908	22,766,454	14,889,261	0.654	7,877,193	0.346	103%	William Howard Taft	7,678,395	0.337	William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)	6,408,984	0.282	Eugene Debs (Socialist)		420,793	0.018	381,089	0.017
1904	20,743,868	13,525,002	0.652	7,218,866	0.348	95%	Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)	7,630,457	0.368	Alton Parker (Democratic)	5,083,880	0.245	Eugene Debs (Socialist)		402,810	0.019	407,855	0.020
1900	19,122,167	13,997,426	0.732	5,124,741	0.268	71%	William McKinley (Republican)	7,228,864	0.378	William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)	6,370,932	0.333	John G Woolley (Prohibition)		210,864	0.011	186,766	0.010
1896	17,574,335	13,936,448	0.793	3,637,887	0.207	51%	William McKinley (Republican)	7,112,138	0.405	William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist)	6,510,807	0.370	John McCauley Palmer (National Democratic)		133,730	0.008	179,773	0.010
1892	16,155,337	12,068,037	0.747	4,087,300	0.253	74%	Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)	5,553,898	0.344	Benjamin Harrison (Republican)	5,190,819	0.321	James Baird Weaver (Populist)		1,026,595	0.064	296,725	0.018
1888	14,354,754	11,383,320	0.793	2,971,434	0.207	55%	Benjamin Harrison (Republican)	5,443,892	0.379	Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)	5,534,488	0.386	Clinton B Fisk (Prohibition)		249,819	0.017	155,121	0.011
1884	12,967,425	10,049,754	0.775	2,917,671	0.225	60%	Grover Cleveland (Democratic)	4,874,621	0.376	James G Blaine (Republican)	4,848,936	0.374	Benjamin F Butler (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly)		175,096	0.014	151,101	0.012
1880	11,600,820	9,211,051	0.794	2,389,769	0.206	54%	James Garfield (Republican)	4,446,158	0.383	Winfield Scott Hancock (Democratic)	4,444,260	0.383	James Baird Weaver (Greenback Labor)		305,997	0.026	14,636	0.001
1876	10,284,964	8,413,101	0.818	1,871,863	0.182	46%	Rutherford B Hayes (Republican)	4,034,311	0.392	Samuel J Tilden (Democratic)	4,288,546	0.417	Peter Cooper (Greenback Labor)		75,973	0.007	14,271	0.001
1872	9,071,077	6,467,678	0.713	2,603,399	0.287	72%	Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)	3,598,235	0.397	Horace Greeley (Democratic/Liberal Republican)	2,834,761	0.313	Charles O'Conor (Bourbon Democratic)		18,602	0.002	16,080	0.002
1868	8,025,863	5,722,440	0.713	2,303,423	0.287	76%	Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)	3,013,650	0.375	Horatio Seymour (Democratic)	2,708,744	0.338	Other		46	0.000	0	0.000
1864	5,463,262	4,031,887	0.738	1,431,375	0.262	65%	Abraham Lincoln ('National Union)	2,218,388	0.406	George B McClellan (Democratic)	1,812,807	0.332	Other		692	0.000	0	0.000
1860	5,770,395	4,685,561	0.812	1,084,834	0.188	58%	Abraham Lincoln ('Republican)	1,865,908	0.323	Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democratic)	1,380,202	0.239	John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democratic)		848,019	0.147	591,432	0.102
1856	5,138,970	4,054,647	0.789	1,084,323	0.211	59%	James Buchanan (Democratic)	1,836,072	0.357	John Charles Frémont (Republican)	1,342,345	0.261	Millard Fillmore (American/Whig)		873,053	0.170	3,177	0.001
1852	4,542,859	3,161,830	0.696	1,381,029	0.304	86%	Franklin Pierce (Democratic)	1,607,510	0.354	Winfield Scott (Whig)	1,386,942	0.305	John Parker Hale (Free Soil)		155,210	0.034	12,168	0.003
1848	3,960,363	2,879,184	0.727	1,081,179	0.273	79%	Zachary Taylor (Whig)	1,361,393	0.344	Lewis Cass (Democratic)	1,223,460	0.309	Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)		291,501	0.074	2,830	0.001
1844	3,426,691	2,703,659	0.789	723,032	0.211	54%	James K. Polk (Democratic)	1,339,494	0.391	Henry Clay (Whig)	1,300,004	0.379	James G. Birney (Liberty)		62,103	0.018	2,058	0.001
1840	3,007,241	2,411,808	0.802	595,433	0.198	47%	William Henry Harrison (Whig)	1,275,390	0.424	Martin Van Buren (Democratic)	1,128,854	0.375	James G. Birney (Liberty)		6,797	0.002	767	0.000
1836	2,601,269	1,503,534	0.578	1,097,735	0.422	144%	Martin Van Buren (Democratic)	764,176	0.294	William Henry Harrison (Whig)	550,816	0.212	Hugh Lawson White (Whig)		146,107	0.056	42,435	0.016
1832	2,335,691	1,293,973	0.554	1,041,718	0.446	148%	Andrew Jackson (Democratic)	701,780	0.300	Henry Clay ('National Republican)	484,205	0.207	William Wirt (Anti-Masonic)		100,715	0.043	7,273	0.003
1828	1,993,087	1,148,018	0.576	845,069	0.424	132%	Andrew Jackson (Democratic)	642,553	0.322	John Quincy Adams (National Republican)	500,897	0.251	Other		4,568	0.002	0	0.000
1824		365,833		53,909			John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican)	113,122		Andrew Jackson ( Democratic-Republican)	151,271		Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)		47,531
1820							James Monroe (Democratic/Republican)			John Quincy Adams (Independent (no party))
1816							James Monroe (Democratic/Republican)			Rufus King (Federalist)
1812							James Madison (Democratic/Republican)			De Witt Clinton (Federalist)
1808							James Madison (Democratic/Republican)			Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist)
1804							Thomas Jefferson (Democratic/Republican)			Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist)
1800							Thomas Jefferson (Democratic/Republican)			Aaron Burr (Democratic/Republican)			John Adams (Federalist)
1796							John Adams (Federalist)			Thomas Jefferson (Democratic/Republican)			Thomas Pinckney (Federalist)
1792							George Washington (None)			John Adams (Federalist)			George Clinton (Federalist)
1789							George Washington (None)	38,818		John Adams (Federalist)			John Jay (Federalist)