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** DECEMBER 14, 2020
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When the Electoral College ([link removed]) meets today and confirms Democrat Joe Biden ([link removed]) as the president-elect, it will mark just the second time since 1892 that a president’s political party has held the White House for just a single term. The only other time this happened in either the 20th or 21st century came in 1976 when Democrat Jimmy Carter ([link removed]) narrowly defeated Republican Gerald Ford ([link removed]) .[1] ([link removed])

A recent column for the _Deseret News_ noted a number of similarities between this year’s election and the results in 1976. It also noted similarities between President-elect Biden and the candidates in 1976—Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.[2] ([link removed])

In the late-19th century, there were three consecutive times when the president’s party held the White House for just a single term. In 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland ([link removed]) was elected after the Republicans had won six consecutive elections. Cleveland was then narrowly defeated in 1888 by Republican Benjamin Harrison ([link removed]) . Cleveland, however, came back in 1892 to win another term in office for himself and the Democrats.[3] ([link removed])

Following that transition period, the Republicans then won four consecutive presidential elections and seven of the next nine.[3] ([link removed])

An earlier Number of the Day ([link removed]) noted that 2020 marked the 9th consecutive presidential election where the winning candidate received 53% of the vote or less. That was the longest such streak in history. The previous record was seven consecutive elections from 1876 to 1900. That particular stretch included the three elections involving Grover Cleveland.

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