Electoral College Percentage

George Washington is the only president to win 100% of the Electoral College Votes, and he did it twice.
In 1824, none of the presidential candidates reached 50%. John Quincy Adams was selected by the House of Representatives.
The average Electoral College victory percentage is 71%.
Five presidents never won an election for president - Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur, and Ford.

Rank	#	President	Year	Percentage
1	1	George Washington	1789	100.00%
1	1	George Washington	1792	100.00%
3	5	James Monroe	1820	99.57%
4	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1936	98.49%
5	40	Ronald Reagan	1984	97.58%
6	37	Richard M. Nixon	1972	96.65%
7	3	Thomas Jefferson	1804	92.05%
8	16	Abraham Lincoln	1864	90.99%
9	40	Ronald Reagan	1980	90.89%
10	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	1964	90.33%
11	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1932	88.89%
12	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1956	86.06%
13	14	Franklin Pierce	1852	85.81%
14	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1940	84.56%
15	5	James Monroe	1816	84.33%
16	31	Herbert Hoover	1928	83.62%
17	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1952	83.24%
18	18	Ulysses S. Grant	1872	81.95%
19	28	Woodrow Wilson	1912	81.92%
20	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1944	81.36%
21	9	William Henry Harrison	1840	79.59%
22	41	George H. W. Bush	1988	79.18%
23	7	Andrew Jackson	1832	76.57%
24	29	Warren G. Harding	1920	76.08%
25	18	Ulysses S. Grant	1868	72.79%
26	30	Calvin Coolidge	1924	71.94%
27	26	Theodore Roosevelt	1904	70.59%
28	42	Bill Clinton	1996	70.45%
29	4	James Madison	1808	69.71%
30	42	Bill Clinton	1992	68.77%
31	7	Andrew Jackson	1828	68.20%
32	44	Barack Obama	2008	67.84%
33	27	William H. Taft	1908	66.46%
34	25	William McKinley	1900	65.32%
35	24	Grover Cleveland	1892	62.39%
36	11	James K. Polk	1844	61.82%
37	44	Barack Obama	2012	61.71%
38	25	William McKinley	1896	60.63%
39	16	Abraham Lincoln	1860	59.41%
40	4	James Madison	1812	58.99%
41	15	James Buchanan	1856	58.78%
42	23	Benjamin Harrison	1888	58.10%
43	20	James A. Garfield	1880	57.99%
44	8	Martin Van Buren	1836	57.82%
45	33	Harry S. Truman	1948	57.06%
46	46	Joe Biden		56.88%
47	45	Donald J. Trump	2016	56.50%
48	35	John F. Kennedy	1960	56.42%
49	12	Zachary Taylor	1848	56.21%
50	37	Richard M. Nixon	1968	55.95%
51	39	Jimmy Carter	1976	55.20%
52	22	Grover Cleveland	1884	54.61%
53	43	George W. Bush	2004	53.16%
54	3	Thomas Jefferson	1800	52.90%
55	28	Woodrow Wilson	1916	52.17%
56	2	John Adams	1796	51.45%
57	43	George W. Bush	2000	50.37%
58	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	1876	50.14%
59	6	John Quincy Adams	1824	32.18%
-	10	John Tyler		No presidential election win.
-	13	Millard Fillmore		No presidential election win.
-	17	Andrew Johnson		No presidential election win.
-	21	Chester A. Arthur		No presidential election win.
-	38	Gerald R. Ford		No presidential election win.

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