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Below is a
list of major party United States presidential candidates who lost their birth or resident states
. While many successful candidates have won the presidency without winning their birth state, only four (
James K. Polk
,
Woodrow Wilson
,
Richard Nixon
and
Donald Trump
) have won election despite losing their state of residence. Nixon, a lifelong Californian, had taken residence in
New York
after his
failed run
for
governor of California
, but later switched back during his presidency and ahead of his reelection.
Candidates who won the elections
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Candidates who lost the elections
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Only candidates who won at least one state (most of them not having necessarily won their birth States and most of the others not having necessarily won their resident states) in the general elections are listed here.
Candidates who lost the home states of their running mates
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- In
1796
,
John Adams
lost
South Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
Thomas Pinckney
.
Thomas Jefferson
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Aaron Burr
as well as Burr's birth state of
New Jersey
.
- In
1800
,
Thomas Jefferson
lost
New Jersey
, the birth state of his running mate
Aaron Burr
.
John Adams
lost
South Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
.
- In
1804
,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Rufus King
, as well as King's birth state of
Massachusetts
.
- In
1808
,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Rufus King
.
- In
1812
,
James Madison
lost
Massachusetts
, the home state of his running mate
Elbridge Gerry
.
DeWitt Clinton
lost
Pennsylvania
, the home state of his running mate
Jared Ingersoll
.
- In
1816
,
Rufus King
lost
Maryland
, the home state of his running mate
John Eager Howard
.
- In
1824
,
John Quincy Adams
lost
South Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
John C. Calhoun
.
Henry Clay
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Nathan Sanford
.
William H. Crawford
lost
North Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
Nathaniel Macon
.
- In
1828
,
John Quincy Adams
lost
Pennsylvania
, the home state of his running mate
Richard Rush
.
- In
1832
,
Henry Clay
lost
Pennsylvania
, the home state of his running mate
John Sergeant
.
William Wirt
lost
Pennsylvania
, the home state of his running mate
Amos Ellmaker
.
John Floyd
lost
Massachusetts
, the home state of his running mate
Henry Lee
.
- In
1836
,
Martin Van Buren
lost
Kentucky
, the home state of his running mate
Richard Mentor Johnson
.
William Henry Harrison
and
Daniel Webster
both lost
New York
, the home state of their mutual running mate
Francis Granger
, as well as Granger's birth state of
Connecticut
.
Hugh Lawson White
and
Willie Person Mangum
both lost
Virginia
, the home state of their mutual running mate
John Tyler
.
- In
1840
,
William Henry Harrison
lost
Virginia
, the home state of his running mate
John Tyler
.
- In
1844
,
Henry Clay
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Theodore Frelinghuysen
.
- In
1848
,
Lewis Cass
lost
Kentucky
, the home state of his running mate
William Orlando Butler
.
- In
1852
,
Winfield Scott
lost
North Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
William Alexander Graham
.
- In
1856
,
John C. Fremont
lost
New Jersey
, the home state of his running mate
William L. Dayton
.
Millard Fillmore
lost
Tennessee
, the home state of his running mate
Andrew Jackson Donelson
.
- In
1860
,
Stephen A. Douglas
lost
Georgia
, the home state of his running mate
Herschel Vespasian Johnson
.
John C. Breckinridge
lost
Oregon
, the home state of his running mate
Joseph Lane
.
John Bell
lost
Massachusetts
, the home state of his running mate
Edward Everett
.
- In
1864
,
George B. McClellan
lost
Ohio
, the home state of his running mate
George H. Pendleton
. In addition, due to the
American Civil War
,
Abraham Lincoln
did not receive any votes in
North Carolina
, the birth state of his running mate
Andrew Johnson
.
- In
1868
,
Ulysses S. Grant
lost
New York
, the birth state of his running mate
Schuyler Colfax
.
Horatio Seymour
lost
Missouri
, the home state of his running mate
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
- In
1876
,
Rutherford B. Hayes
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
William A. Wheeler
.
Samuel J. Tilden
lost
Ohio
, the birth state of his running mate
Thomas A. Hendricks
.
- In
1880
,
Winfield Scott Hancock
lost
Indiana
, the home state of his running mate
William Hayden English
.
- In
1884
,
Grover Cleveland
lost
Ohio
, the birth state of his running mate
Thomas A. Hendricks
.
- In
1888
,
Grover Cleveland
lost
Ohio
, the home state of his running mate
Allen G. Thurman
.
- In
1892
,
Benjamin Harrison
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Whitelaw Reid
.
James B. Weaver
lost
Virginia
, the home state of his running mate
James G. Field
.
- In
1896
,
William Jennings Bryan
lost
Maine
, the home state of his running mate
Arthur Sewall
.
- In
1900
,
William Jennings Bryan
lost
Illinois
, the home state of his running mate
Adlai Stevenson I
.
- In
1904
,
Alton B. Parker
lost
West Virginia
, the home state of his running mate
Henry Gassaway Davis
, as well as Davis' birth state of
Maryland
.
- In
1908
,
William Jennings Bryan
lost
Indiana
, the home state of his running mate
John W. Kern
.
- In
1912
,
William Howard Taft
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Nicholas Murray Butler
.
- In
1916
,
Woodrow Wilson
lost
Indiana
, the home state of his running mate
Thomas R. Marshall
.
Charles Evans Hughes
lost
Ohio
, the birth state of his running mate
Charles W. Fairbanks
.
- In
1920
,
James M. Cox
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
.
- In
1924
,
John W. Davis
lost
Nebraska
, the home state of his running mate
Charles W. Bryan
, as well as Bryan's birth state of
Illinois
.
Robert M. La Follette
lost
Montana
, the home state of his running mate
Burton K. Wheeler
, as well as Wheeler's birth state of
Massachusetts
.
- In
1932
,
Herbert Hoover
lost
Kansas
, the home state of his running mate
Charles Curtis
.
- In
1936
,
Alf Landon
lost
Illinois
, the home state of his running mate
Frank Knox
, as well as Knox's birth state of
Massachusetts
.
- In
1940
,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
lost
Iowa
, the home state of his running mate
Henry A. Wallace
.
Wendell Willkie
lost
Oregon
, the home state of his running mate
Charles L. McNary
.
- In
1956
,
Adlai Stevenson II
lost
Tennessee
, the home state of his running mate
Estes Kefauver
.
- In
1960
,
Richard Nixon
lost
Massachusetts
, the home state of his running mate
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
- In
1964
,
Barry Goldwater
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
William E. Miller
.
- In
1968
,
Richard Nixon
lost
Maryland
, the home state of his running mate
Spiro Agnew
.
George Wallace
lost
California
, the home state of his running mate
Curtis LeMay
, as well as LeMay's birth state of
Ohio
.
- In
1972
,
George McGovern
lost
Maryland
, the home state of his running mate
Sargent Shriver
.
- In
1984
,
Walter Mondale
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Geraldine Ferraro
.
- In
1988
,
Michael Dukakis
lost
Texas
, the home state of his running mate
Lloyd Bentsen
.
- In
1996
,
Bob Dole
lost
New York
, the home state of his running mate
Jack Kemp
, as well as Kemp's birth state of
California
.
- In
2004
,
John Kerry
lost
North Carolina
, the home state of his running mate
John Edwards
, as well as Edwards' birth state of
South Carolina
.
- In
2012
,
Mitt Romney
lost
Wisconsin
, the home state of his running mate
Paul Ryan
.
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