The dominant political party in presidential elections was the Republican party.
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Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
Richard Nixon is the most voted for politician in American history. With 2 successfull runs for Congress (House then Senate), 2 successful terms as Eisenhower's Vice-President, an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1960, and unsuccessful Gubenatorial run in 1962. A successful presidential run in 1968 followed by a landslide re-election to the presidency in 1972, Richard Nixon has been voted more times than any other politician in American history.
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In 1876 the Electoral College made Hayes president in the course of one of the most contentious elections in national history. He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, but won an intensely disputed electoral-college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes.
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in Presidential elections, Illinois is most often a blue state; however, it frequently votes red in gubernatorial elections.
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The person who ran for a major-party presidential nomination more than anyone else was Harold Stassen, who sought the Republican Party nomination twelve times from 1944 to 2000.Lyndon LaRouche was a candidate in eight U.S. presidential elections from 1976 to 2004.Five people have received at least one electoral vote in four different U.S. presidential elections: John Adams, George Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, Charles C. Pinckney and Franklin D. Roosevelt.Franklin D. Roosevelt won four U.S. presidential elections.
In the recent 2016 election the Republicans gained the most seats.