Following is a table ofUnited States presidential elections in Michigan, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1837,Michigan has participated in every U.S. presidential election, although they did participate in the 1836 election and receive electoral votes. Michigan is tied withPennsylvania andWisconsin for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in 2004 when they backedJohn Kerry.
Winners of the state are inbold. The shading refers to thestate winner, and not the national winner.
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent ofslavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about theAmerican Civil War.
^abFor purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
^Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
^Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessfulWhig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others wereHugh Lawson White,Daniel Webster, andWillie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in Michigan.
