Vice President-elect of the United States

Vice President-elect of the United States is the title used for an incoming vice president of the United States between the general election on Election Day in November and noon Eastern Standard Time on Inauguration Day of January 20. During this time, the elected nominee is not in office yet.

Vice President-elect of the United States
Incumbent Vacant since January 20, 2025
Style	The Honorable
Term length	In the period between the general election on Election Day in November and Noon (Eastern Standard Time) on Inauguration Day
Inaugural holder	John Adams January 10, 1789
Formation	No official formation
Salary	None

The term corresponds to the term "president-elect of the United States", used for those elected president of the United States for the same period between their election and inauguration.

If the current vice president has won re-election alongside the current president, they are not given the title of vice president-elect because they are already in office and is not waiting to become vice president.

Vice President-designate of the United States

Since 1967, the vice presidency has been vacant twice, and a successor was nominated to fill the vacancy in with the 25th Amendment. The first was in 1973 when Gerald Ford was nominated by President Richard Nixon to succeed Spiro Agnew, who had resigned. The second came in 1974, when Ford, who had succeeded to the presidency following Nixon's resignation, nominated Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him.^[1][2] During both vacancies, the nominee was called vice president-designate, instead of vice president-elect, as neither had been elected to the office.

List of vice presidents-elect

Vice President-elect[a]		Party		Election	Inauguration
1	John Adams		Nonpartisan	Election of 1788–89[b]	George Washington's first inauguration
2	Thomas Jefferson		Democratic-Republican	Election of 1796	John Adams's inauguration
3	Aaron Burr			Election of 1800[c]	Thomas Jefferson's first inauguration
4	George Clinton			Election of 1804	Thomas Jefferson's second inauguration
5	Elbridge Gerry			Election of 1812	James Madison's second inauguration
6	Daniel D. Tompkins			Election of 1816	James Monroe's first inauguration
7	John C. Calhoun			Election of 1824[c]	John Quincy Adams's inauguration
8	Martin Van Buren		Democratic	Election of 1832	Andrew Jackson's second inauguration
9	Richard Mentor Johnson			Election of 1836	Martin Van Buren's inauguration
10	John Tyler		Whig	Election of 1840	William Henry Harrison's inauguration
11	George M. Dallas		Democratic	Election of 1844	James K. Polk's inauguration
12	Millard Fillmore		Whig	Election of 1848	Zachary Taylor's inauguration
13	William R. King		Democratic	Election of 1852	Oath of office administered March 24, 1853[d]
14	John C. Breckinridge			Election of 1856	James Buchanan's inauguration
15	Hannibal Hamlin		Republican	Election of 1860	Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration
16	Andrew Johnson		National Union	Election of 1864	Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration
17	Schuyler Colfax		Republican	Election of 1868	Ulysses S. Grant's first inauguration
18	Henry Wilson			Election of 1872	Ulysses S. Grant's second inauguration
19	William A. Wheeler			Election of 1876[e]	Rutherford B. Hayes's inauguration
20	Chester A. Arthur			Election of 1880	James A. Garfield's inauguration
21	Thomas A. Hendricks		Democratic	Election of 1884	Grover Cleveland's first inauguration
22	Levi P. Morton		Republican	Election of 1888	Benjamin Harrison's inauguration
23	Adlai Stevenson I		Democratic	Election of 1892	Grover Cleveland's second inauguration
24	Garret Hobart		Republican	Election of 1896	William McKinley's first inauguration
25	Theodore Roosevelt			Election of 1900	William McKinley's second inauguration
26	Charles W. Fairbanks			Election of 1904	Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration
27	James S. Sherman			Election of 1908	William Howard Taft's inauguration
28	Thomas R. Marshall		Democratic	Election of 1912	Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration
29	Calvin Coolidge		Republican	Election of 1920	Warren G. Harding's inauguration
20	Charles G. Dawes			Election of 1924	Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration
31	Charles Curtis			Election of 1928	Herbert Hoover's inauguration
32	John Nance Garner		Democratic	Election of 1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inauguration
33	Henry A. Wallace			Election of 1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inauguration
34	Harry S. Truman			Election of 1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth inauguration
35	Alben W. Barkley			Election of 1948	Harry S. Truman's second inauguration
36	Richard Nixon		Republican	Election of 1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower's first inauguration
37	Lyndon B. Johnson		Democratic	Election of 1960	John F. Kennedy's inauguration
38	Hubert Humphrey			Election of 1964	Lyndon B. Johnson's second inauguration
39	Spiro Agnew		Republican	Election of 1968	Richard Nixon's first inauguration
40	Walter Mondale		Democratic	Election of 1976	Jimmy Carter's inauguration
41	George H. W. Bush		Republican	Election of 1980	Ronald Reagan's first inauguration
42	Dan Quayle			Election of 1988	George H. W. Bush's inauguration
43	Al Gore		Democratic	Election of 1992	Bill Clinton's first inauguration
44	Dick Cheney		Republican	Election of 2000[f]	George W. Bush's first inauguration
45	Joe Biden		Democratic	Election of 2008	Barack Obama's first inauguration
46	Mike Pence		Republican	Election of 2016	Donald Trump's first inauguration
47	Kamala Harris		Democratic	Election of 2020	Joe Biden's inauguration
48	JD Vance		Republican	Election of 2024	Donald Trump's second inauguration
Notes: Column counts number of vice president-elect. Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller are not counted because they entered office intra-term and were never elected to the vice presidency. Also after a delay in the certification of the electoral votes by Congress. Also after a contingent election in the House of Representatives. Ill with tuberculosis, William King traveled to Cuba after the 1852 election in an effort to regain his health, and was not able to be in Washington, D.C. to take his oath of office on March 4, 1853. By an Act of Congress, he was allowed to take the oath outside the United States, and was sworn in on March 24, 1853 near Matanzas, Cuba. He is the only vice president to take his oath of office in a foreign country. Also after a dispute over 20 electoral votes from four states was resolved by a special Electoral Commission established by Congress. Also after a dispute over Florida's 25 electoral votes was resolved by the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, which halted the Florida vote recount that was under way.[3]