Electoral history of Donald Trump
Elections featuring President of the US
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Donald Trump, the 45th (2017–2021) and 47th (2025–present) president of the United States, first ran for president in the 2000 election as a candidate for the Reform Party of the United States. He withdrew from the race before the primaries. Trump won the 2016 election running as the Republican Party nominee, despite losing the popular vote. Trump ran for re-election in 2020, but lost to former vice president Joe Biden. He subsequently won the 2024 election against vice president Kamala Harris to serve a non-consecutive second term as president, again as a Republican candidate.
2000 presidential election
During the campaign, Trump qualified for the Michigan and California Reform Party presidential primaries. Both of these elections were held after Trump exited the race.[1] On February 22, Trump won the Michigan Primary with 2,164 votes defeating uncommitted with 948 votes. Trump won the California primary on March 7 with 15,311 votes. Eventual Reform nominee Pat Buchanan was not listed on either ballot. [2][3] A slate of Trump supporters petitioned to list Trump on the New York Independence Party presidential primary ballot but were denied on a technicality.[4]
Reform Party primaries
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Donald Trump | 15,311 | 44.28% | |
| Reform | George D. Weber | 9,390 | 27.16% | |
| Reform | Robert M. Bowman | 4,879 | 14.11% | |
| Reform | John B. Anderson | 3,158 | 9.13% | |
| Reform | Charles E. Collins | 1,837 | 5.31% | |
| Total votes | 34,575 | 100.00% | ||
2016 presidential election


Republican presidential primaries
Candidates listed received at least 0.01% of the total vote:
| Candidate | Total votes | Total delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Trump | 14,015,993 (44.95%) | 1,457 |
| Ted Cruz | 7,822,100 (25.08%) | 553 |
| John Kasich | 4,290,448 (13.76%) | 160 |
| Marco Rubio | 3,515,576 (11.27%) | 166 |
| Ben Carson | 857,039 (2.75%) | 7 |
| Jeb Bush | 286,694 (0.92%) | 4 |
| Rand Paul | 66,788 (0.21%) | 2 |
| Chris Christie | 57,637 (0.18%) | 0 |
| Mike Huckabee | 51,450 (0.16%) | 1 |
| Carly Fiorina | 40,666 (0.13%) | 1 |
| Jim Gilmore | 18,369 (0.06%) | 0 |
| Rick Santorum | 16,627 (0.05%) | 0 |
| Lindsey Graham | 5,666 (0.01%) | 0 |
| Elizabeth Gray | 5,449 (0.01%) | 0 |
General election

Notes:
- Received electoral vote(s) from a faithless elector
- Two faithless electors from Texas cast their presidential votes for Ron Paul and John Kasich, respectively. Chris Suprun said he cast his presidential vote for John Kasich and his vice presidential vote for Carly Fiorina. The other faithless elector in Texas, Bill Greene, cast his presidential vote for Ron Paul but cast his vice presidential vote for Mike Pence, as pledged. John Kasich received recorded write-in votes in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
2020 presidential election

Republican presidential primaries
The table below shows the four candidates that have either (a) held public office, (b) been included in a minimum of five independent national polls, or (c) received substantial media coverage. The president's challengers withdrew from the race after the primaries started, or in the case of De la Fuente, accepted one or more 3rd party nominations.[8][9][10]
| Candidates | Trump |
Weld |
De La Fuente |
Walsh |
Total delegates, pledged (unpledged/total), and votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pledged delegates (unpledged / soft total)[11] (Total awarded: 2,312)[12] |
2,311 (38 / 2,273) 90.63% |
1 (0 / 1) 0.04% |
0 (0 / 0) 0% |
0 (0 / 0) 0% |
2,443 (107 / 2,550) (90.67% awarded) 19,321,267 votes |
| Popular votes[11] | 18,159,752 (93.99%) |
454,402 (2.35%) |
108,357 (0.56%) |
173,519 (0.90%) |
General election

Candidates are listed individually below if they received more than 0.1% of the popular vote. Popular vote totals are from the Federal Election Commission report.[13]
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Joe Biden | Democratic | Delaware | 81,283,501 | 51.31% | 306 | Kamala Harris | California | 306 |
| Donald Trump (incumbent) |
Republican | Florida | 74,223,975 | 46.85% | 232 | Mike Pence (incumbent) |
Indiana | 232 |
| Jo Jorgensen | Libertarian | South Carolina | 1,865,535 | 1.18% | 0 | Spike Cohen | South Carolina | 0 |
| Howie Hawkins | Green | New York | 407,068 | 0.26% | 0 | Angela Nicole Walker | South Carolina | 0 |
| Other | 649,552 | 0.41% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 158,429,631 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
2024 presidential election
Republican presidential primaries

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Donald Trump | 17,015,756 | 76.42% | |
| Republican | Nikki Haley | 4,381,799 | 19.68% | |
| Republican | Ron DeSantis | 353,615 | 1.59% | |
| N/A | Uncommitted | 154,815 | 0.70% | |
| Republican | Chris Christie | 139,541 | 0.63% | |
| Republican | Vivek Ramaswamy | 96,954 | 0.44% | |
| Republican | Asa Hutchinson | 22,044 | 0.10% | |
| Republican | Perry Johnson | 4,051 | 0.02% | |
| Republican | Tim Scott | 1,598 | 0.01% | |
| Republican | Doug Burgum | 502 | 0.00% | |
| Republican | Mike Pence | 404 | 0.00% | |
| N/A | Other candidates | 93,796 | 0.42% | |
| Total votes | 22,264,875 | 100.00% | ||
General election

| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Donald Trump | Republican | Florida | 77,302,580 | 49.81% | 312 | JD Vance | Ohio | 312 |
| Kamala Harris | Democratic | California | 75,017,613 | 48.33% | 226 | Tim Walz | Minnesota | 226 |
| Jill Stein | Green | Massachusetts | 782,068 | 0.5% | 0 | Butch Ware | California | 0 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Independent | New York | 755,018 | 0.5% | 0 | Nicole Shanahan | California | 0 |
| Other | — | Other | — | |||||
| Total | 100% | 538 | 538 | |||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
See also
- Electoral history of Hillary Clinton
- Electoral history of Mike Pence
- Electoral history of Joe Biden
- Electoral history of Kamala Harris
- Electoral history of JD Vance
- Electoral history of Pat Buchanan
- Electoral history of John McCain
- Electoral history of Mitt Romney
- Electoral history of Bill Clinton
- Electoral history of George W. Bush
- Electoral history of Barack Obama