How many US presidents were reelected?

Answer 1

Washington,Jefferson,Madison,Monroe,Jackson,Lincoln,Grant,Cleveland,McKinley,Wilson,

Franklin Roosevelt,Eisenhower,Nixon, Clinton and George W. Bush

were all elected twice to the presidency.

Theodore Roosevelt,Coolidge Truman, and Lyndon Johnson became president when the president died and then were elected to another term, so in a way they were re-elected.

Answer 2

Either 20 or 21, based on the inclusion of Grover Cleveland (non-consecutive terms). Of those, 4 were elected Vice President then elected President after their succession (Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson).

In the first 57 US Presidential elections (1789-2012), the incumbent president was nominated as a candidate for reelection 32 times and won reelection 22 times, representing 20 separate Presidents. That includes those presidents who first attained the presidency through ascension or appointment rather than election as president.

(Three of the 22 reelections involved the same person, Franklin D. Roosevelt -- since the 1951 ratification of the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, it is no longer legally possible to be elected US President more than twice.)

Grover Cleveland lost his campaign for reelection while an incumbent in 1888, but he re-won the presidency four years later. Including Cleveland, the total number of people who were elected President after having become President is 21.

Including 2012, these are the 32 elections which included the incumbent president as a candidate:

1792 - George Washington (ind.; won) 1

1800 - John Adams (Fed.; lost)

1804 - Thomas Jefferson (D-R; won) 2

1812 - James Madison (D-R; won) 3

1820 - James Monroe (D-R; won) 4

1828 - John Quincy Adams (N.R.; lost)

1832 - Andrew Jackson (Dem.; won) 5

1840 - Martin Van Buren (Dem.; lost)

1864 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep.; won) 6

1872 - Ulysses S. Grant (Rep.; won) 7

1888 - Grover Cleveland (Dem.; lost) *8

1892 - Benjamin Harrison (Rep.; lost)

1900 - William McKinley (Rep.; won) 9

1904 - Theodore Roosevelt (Rep.; won) 10

1912 - William Howard Taft (Rep.; lost)

1916 - Woodrow Wilson (Dem.; won) 11

1924 - Calvin Coolidge (Rep.; won) 12

1932 - Herbert Hoover (Rep.; lost)

1936 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem.; won) 13

1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem.; won)

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem.; won)

1948 - Harry S Truman (Dem.; won) 14

1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Rep.; won) 15

1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson (Dem.; won) 16

1972 - Richard M. Nixon (Rep.; won) 17

1976 - Gerald R. Ford (Rep.; lost)

1980 - Jimmy Carter (Dem.; lost)

1984 - Ronald Reagan (Rep.; won) 18

1992 - George H. W. Bush (Rep.; lost)

1996 - Bill Clinton (Dem.; won) 19

2004 - George W. Bush (Rep.; won) 20

2012 - Barack Obama (Dem.; won) 21

Most consecutive elections without the incumbent as a candidate: 5 (1844-1860)

Most consecutive elections without an incumbent win: 7 (1836-1860)

Most consecutive elections without an incumbent loss: 11 (1844-1884)

* It is interesting to note that in every US Presidential election from 1956 through 2004, either the incumbent president or the incumbent vice president was one of the two major-party candidates (Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson, Humphrey, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Clinton, Gore & Bush). In fact, since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been only five elections in which that was not the case (1908, 1920, 1928, 1952 & 2008).

* Conversely, only ONE sitting Vice president has been elected President since 1836: George H. Bush. The other three were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Van Buren.