No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
they can potentially be won by either major-party candidate
The 1808 US Presidential Election was contested between Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison, and Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Madison won the election with 122 electoral votes to Pinckney's 47.
Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election.
The nominee for president was from Arizona and and the VP candidate was from Alaska.
It's a political party
Both Willkie and Roosevelt promised to keep the United States out of the European conflict.
George Washington won the first presidential election in 1789. The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election in the United States.
Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election .
John McCain was the United States presidential candidate that was known as a maverick.