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Who Did Grandma Vote For? 100 Years of Presidential Results in Illinois

October 12, 2016 12:44pm | Updated October 12, 2016 12:48pm
Democratic Women of New York wear signs for the 1944 national campaign registration. The humorous signs urge women to register and vote for Franklin Roosevelt.
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CHICAGO — What are the presidential election results between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? Check back here on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016 for updates.

In the meantime, here's how Illinois residents voted in the presidential elections going back 100 years (results rounded except 1960's Nixon vs. Kennedy):

2012

Barack Obama: 58 percent

Mitt Romney: 41 percent

2008

Barack Obama (D): 62 percent

John McCain (R): 37 percent

2004

John Kerry (D): 55 percent

George W. Bush (R): 44 percent

2000

Albert Gore Jr. (D): 55 percent

George W. Bush (R): 43 percent

1996

William Clinton (D): 54 percent

Robert Dole (R) 37 percent

1992

William Clinton (D): 49 percent

George Bush: (R) 34 percent

1988

George Bush (R): 51 percent

Michael Dukakis: (D): 49 percent

1984

Ronald Reagan (R): 56 percent

Walter MOndale (D): 43 percent

1980

Ronald Reagan (R): 50 percent

Jimmy Carter (D): 42 percent

1976

Gerald Ford (R) 50 percent

Jimmy Carter (D): 48 percent

1972

Richard Nixon (R): 59 percent

George McGovern (D): 40 percent

1968

Former presidents George HW Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are seen in this file photo from 2004.
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Richard Nixon (R): 47 percent

Hubert Humphrey: 44 percent

1964

Lyndon Johnson (D): 59 percent

Barry Goldwater (R): 41 percent

1960

John Kennedy (D): 49.98 percent

Richard Nixon (R) 49.80 percent

1956

Dwight Eisenhower (R): 60 percent

Adlai Stevenson (D): 40 percent

1952

Dwight Eisenhower (R): 55 percent

Adlai Stevenson (D): 45 percent

1948

Harry Truman (D): 51 percent

Thomas Dewey (R) 49 percent

1944

Franklin Roosevelt (D): 52 percent

Thomas Dewey (R): 48 percent

1940

Franklin Roosevelt (D): 51 percent

Wendell Wilkie (R): 49 percent

1936

Franklin Roosevelt (D): 58 percent

Alfred Landon (R): 40 percent

1932

Franklin Roosevelt (D): 55 percent

Herbert Hoover (R): 42 percent

1928

Herbert Hoover (R): 57 percent

Alfred Smith (D): 42 percent

1920

Warren Harding (r): 68 percent

James Cox (D): 26 percent

1916: 

Charles Fairbanks (R): 52 percent

Woodrow Wilson (D): 43 percent 

Source: electionatlas.org

Republican Presidential nominee Warren Harding encircled by a sousaphone. August 1920. This created an amusing image for his 'front porch' campaign in 1920.
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