Highest turnout
Cycles with the highest share of eligible voters casting ballots.
- 11876Rutherford B. Hayes82.6%
- 21860Abraham Lincoln81.8%
- 31868Ulysses S. Grant80.9%
- 41880James A. Garfield80.5%
- 51888Benjamin Harrison80.5%
- 61840William Henry Harrison80.3%
- 71896William McKinley79.6%
- 81856James Buchanan79.4%
- 91844James K. Polk79.2%
- 101884Grover Cleveland78.2%
- 111864Abraham Lincoln76.3%
- 121892Grover Cleveland75.8%
- 131900William McKinley73.7%
- 141848Zachary Taylor72.8%
- 151872Ulysses S. Grant72.1%
- 161852Franklin Pierce69.5%
- 172020Joe Biden66.6%
- 181908William Howard Taft65.7%
- 191904Theodore Roosevelt65.5%
- 202024Donald Trump64.1%
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