Abbreviations

General abbreviations

Nom: Major-party nominee
Qual: Qualified candidacy
Win: General-election winner

Statistical categories

CS: Campaign score
CV%: Chance of victory
EV: Electoral votes
EV%: Percentage of electoral votes
EV*EQ: Equalized electoral votes
PI: Potential index
P-State: Personal state index
PV: Popular votes
PV%: Percentage of popular votes
PV% (rest): Percentage of popular votes in the rest of the nation
PV% (state): Percentage of popular votes in a given state
PV*EQ: Equalized popular votes
ROP: Return on potential
SC: States carried
Tot EV: Total electoral votes cast
Tot PV: Total popular votes cast

Political parties

AI: American Independent
AM: Anti-Masonic
AW: American-Whig
CU: Constitutional Union
D: Democratic
DR: Democratic-Republican
F: Federalist
FL: Farmer-Labor
FS: Free Soil
GBK: Greenback
GRN: Green
I: Independent
LIB: Libertarian
LR: Liberal Republican
LTY: Liberty
NR: National Republican
NU: National Unity
P: Progressive
POP: Populist
PRO: Prohibition
R: Republican
REF: Reform
SD: Southern Democratic
SOC: Socialist
SRD: States’ Rights Democratic
TC: Taxpayers and Constitution
U: Union
W: Whig

Note: If two party abbreviations are linked by a hyphen, the candidate ran simultaneously on both tickets. If they’re separated by a slash, the candidate began the year in one party before switching to the second.