Popular Vote for President of the United States

Highest Popular Votes by Year
(All years with total exceeding 100 million votes; numbers rounded off to nearest 1,000)

2016) 136,297,000

2008) 131,314,000

2012) 129,085,000

2004) 122,295,000

2000) 105,405,000

1992) 104,427,000



Popular Vote Totals by Candidates, Ranked
(Numbers rounded off to nearest 1,000)

69,499,000  ...(2008) Barack Obama

65,916,000  ...(2012) Barack Obama

65,747,000 ...(2016) Hillary Clinton

62,905,000 ...(2016) Donald Trump

62,041,000 ...(2004) George W Bush

60,934,000  ...(2012) Mitt Romney

59,948,000  ...(2008) John McCain

59,028,000  ...(2004) John Kerry

54,455,000 ...(1984) Ronald Reagan

51,000,000 ...(2000) Al Gore

50,456,000 ...(2000) George W Bush

48,886,000 ...(1988) George H W Bush

47,402,000 ...(1996) Bill Clinton

46,740,000 ...(1972) Richard Nixon

44,910,000 ...(1992) Bill Clinton

43,643,000 ...(1980) Ronald Reagan

42,825,000 ...(1964) Lyndon Johnson

41,809,000 ...(1988) Michael Dukakis

40,826,000 ...(1976) Jimmy Carter

39,199,000 ...(1996) Bob Dole

39,148,000 ...(1976) Gerald Ford

39,105,000 ...(1992) George H W Bush

37,577,000 ...(1984) Walter Mondale

35,590,000 ...(1956) Dwight Eisenhower

35,481,000 ...(1980) Jimmy Carter