George Washington won the first presidential election in 1789. The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election in the United States.

The United States presidential election of 1789 was the first presidential election in the United States of America, and was the only one to not take place in an even numbered year.

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The candidates of the 1824 presidential election in the United States were: John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun and Smith Thompson. Calhoun and Thompson withdrew before the race was over, and Andrew Jackson won the popular vote to become president.

It will be another four years until the next presidential election in the United States.