The following never lost a U.S. presidential election, although some of them failed attempts to win their party's nomination:
- everybody who never ran in one
- George Washington (He received one vote in 1796, but he was not a candidate.)
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- James K. Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James A. Garfield
- William McKinley
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (He lost a vice-presidential election.)
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Ronald Reagan (He received one vote in 1976, but he was not a candidate, having lost the nomination to Gerald Ford.)
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Barack Obama
