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Below is a list of major party United States presidential candidates who lost their birth or resident states . While many successful candidates have won the presidency without winning their birth state, only four (
James K. Polk ,
Woodrow Wilson ,
Richard Nixon and
Donald Trump ) have won election despite losing their state of residence. Nixon, a lifelong Californian, had taken residence in
New York after his
failed run for
governor of California , but later switched back during his presidency and ahead of his reelection.
Candidates who won the elections
Candidates who lost the elections
Only candidates who won at least one state (most of them not having necessarily won their birth States and most of the others not having necessarily won their resident states) in the general elections are listed here.
Candidates who lost the home states of their running mates
In
1796 ,
John Adams lost
South Carolina , the home state of his running mate
Thomas Pinckney .
Thomas Jefferson lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Aaron Burr as well as Burr's birth state of
New Jersey .
In
1800 ,
Thomas Jefferson lost
New Jersey , the birth state of his running mate
Aaron Burr .
John Adams lost
South Carolina , the home state of his running mate
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney .
In
1804 ,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Rufus King , as well as King's birth state of
Massachusetts .
In
1808 ,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Rufus King .
In
1812 ,
James Madison lost
Massachusetts , the home state of his running mate
Elbridge Gerry .
DeWitt Clinton lost
Pennsylvania , the home state of his running mate
Jared Ingersoll .
In
1816 ,
Rufus King lost
Maryland , the home state of his running mate
John Eager Howard .
In
1824 ,
John Quincy Adams lost
South Carolina , the home state of his running mate
John C. Calhoun .
Henry Clay lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Nathan Sanford .
William H. Crawford lost
North Carolina , the home state of his running mate
Nathaniel Macon .
In
1828 ,
John Quincy Adams lost
Pennsylvania , the home state of his running mate
Richard Rush .
In
1832 ,
Henry Clay lost
Pennsylvania , the home state of his running mate
John Sergeant .
William Wirt lost
Pennsylvania , the home state of his running mate
Amos Ellmaker .
John Floyd lost
Massachusetts , the home state of his running mate
Henry Lee .
In
1836 ,
Martin Van Buren lost
Kentucky , the home state of his running mate
Richard Mentor Johnson .
William Henry Harrison and
Daniel Webster both lost
New York , the home state of their mutual running mate
Francis Granger , as well as Granger's birth state of
Connecticut .
Hugh Lawson White and
Willie Person Mangum both lost
Virginia , the home state of their mutual running mate
John Tyler .
In
1840 ,
William Henry Harrison lost
Virginia , the home state of his running mate
John Tyler .
In
1844 ,
Henry Clay lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Theodore Frelinghuysen .
In
1848 ,
Lewis Cass lost
Kentucky , the home state of his running mate
William Orlando Butler .
In
1852 ,
Winfield Scott lost
North Carolina , the home state of his running mate
William Alexander Graham .
In
1856 ,
John C. Frémont lost
New Jersey , the home state of his running mate
William L. Dayton .
Millard Fillmore lost
Tennessee , the home state of his running mate
Andrew Jackson Donelson .
In
1860 ,
Stephen A. Douglas lost
Georgia , the home state of his running mate
Herschel Vespasian Johnson .
John C. Breckinridge lost
Oregon , the home state of his running mate
Joseph Lane .
John Bell lost
Massachusetts , the home state of his running mate
Edward Everett .
In
1864 ,
George B. McClellan lost
Ohio , the home state of his running mate
George H. Pendleton . In addition, due to the
American Civil War ,
Abraham Lincoln did not receive any votes in
North Carolina , the birth state of his running mate
Andrew Johnson .
In
1868 ,
Ulysses S. Grant lost
New York , the birth state of his running mate
Schuyler Colfax .
Horatio Seymour lost
Missouri , the home state of his running mate
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
In
1876 ,
Rutherford B. Hayes lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
William A. Wheeler .
Samuel J. Tilden lost
Ohio , the birth state of his running mate
Thomas A. Hendricks .
In
1880 ,
Winfield Scott Hancock lost
Indiana , the home state of his running mate
William Hayden English .
In
1884 ,
Grover Cleveland lost
Ohio , the birth state of his running mate
Thomas A. Hendricks .
In
1888 ,
Grover Cleveland lost
Ohio , the home state of his running mate
Allen G. Thurman .
In
1892 ,
Benjamin Harrison lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Whitelaw Reid .
James B. Weaver lost
Virginia , the home state of his running mate
James G. Field .
In
1896 ,
William Jennings Bryan lost
Maine , the home state of his running mate
Arthur Sewall .
In
1900 ,
William Jennings Bryan lost
Illinois , the home state of his running mate
Adlai Stevenson I .
In
1904 ,
Alton B. Parker lost
West Virginia , the home state of his running mate
Henry Gassaway Davis , as well as Davis' birth state of
Maryland .
In
1908 ,
William Jennings Bryan lost
Indiana , the home state of his running mate
John W. Kern .
In
1912 ,
William Howard Taft lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Nicholas Murray Butler .
In
1916 ,
Woodrow Wilson lost
Indiana , the home state of his running mate
Thomas R. Marshall .
Charles Evans Hughes lost
Ohio , the birth state of his running mate
Charles W. Fairbanks .
In
1920 ,
James M. Cox lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Franklin D. Roosevelt .
In
1924 ,
John W. Davis lost
Nebraska , the home state of his running mate
Charles W. Bryan , as well as Bryan's birth state of
Illinois .
Robert M. La Follette lost
Montana , the home state of his running mate
Burton K. Wheeler , as well as Wheeler's birth state of
Massachusetts .
In
1932 ,
Herbert Hoover lost
Kansas , the home state of his running mate
Charles Curtis .
In
1936 ,
Alf Landon lost
Illinois , the home state of his running mate
Frank Knox , as well as Knox's birth state of
Massachusetts .
In
1940 ,
Franklin D. Roosevelt lost
Iowa , the home state of his running mate
Henry A. Wallace .
Wendell Willkie lost
Oregon , the home state of his running mate
Charles L. McNary .
In
1956 ,
Adlai Stevenson II lost
Tennessee , the home state of his running mate
Estes Kefauver .
In
1960 ,
Richard Nixon lost
Massachusetts , the home state of his running mate
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
In
1964 ,
Barry Goldwater lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
William E. Miller .
In
1968 ,
Richard Nixon lost
Maryland , the home state of his running mate
Spiro Agnew .
George Wallace lost
California , the home state of his running mate
Curtis LeMay , as well as LeMay's birth state of
Ohio .
In
1972 ,
George McGovern lost
Maryland , the home state of his running mate
Sargent Shriver .
In
1984 ,
Walter Mondale lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Geraldine Ferraro .
In
1988 ,
Michael Dukakis lost
Texas , the home state of his running mate
Lloyd Bentsen .
In
1996 ,
Bob Dole lost
New York , the home state of his running mate
Jack Kemp , as well as Kemp's birth state of
California .
In
2004 ,
John Kerry lost
North Carolina , the home state of his running mate
John Edwards , as well as Edwards' birth state of
South Carolina .
In
2012 ,
Mitt Romney lost
Wisconsin , the home state of his running mate
Paul Ryan .
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