An excerpt from my video, Using Science to Win the White House, where I break down all 60 U.S. presidential elections to uncover what separates the winners from the losers. I analyzed key factors like war, the economy, and voter turnout—and, for a bit of fun, I also looked at facial hair.

A summary of the facial hair analysis is shown below:

Out of all 60 US presidential elections:

  • 45 elections – Both candidates clean-shaven
  • 15 elections – At least one candidate had facial hair
    • 8 elections – Both candidates had facial hair
    • 7 elections – One clean-shaven, one had facial hair
      • 5 elections – cleanshaven wins
      • 2 elections – facial hair wins

Source is linked here.

Tools: Python and Canva

Posted by NotLaurenceFishburne

4 comments
  1. Seems to correlate closely with the overall popularity of facial hair among US men, which peaked at a vast majority around 1870-1900. Wonder if there’s causation in one direction or another.

  2. JD vance had a beard as of election night. Why don’t we see a half bubble for 2024?

  3. Dewey had a mustache – last one with an actual beard was Charles Evans in 1916.

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