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Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.
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He won 21.4% of the vote in his home state of Utah, the highest share of the vote for a third-party candidate in any state since 1992. Despite dropping out of the election following his defeat in the Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders received 5.7% of the vote in his home state of Vermont, the highest write-in draft campaign percentage ...
However, candidates have failed to get the most votes in the nationwide popular vote in a presidential election and still won. In the 1824 election, Jackson won the popular vote, but no one received a majority of electoral votes. According to the Twelfth Amendment, the House must choose the president out of the top three people in the election.
Men in military service who turned 19 during the first world war were entitled to vote in 1918 irrespective of their age as part of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which also allowed some women over the age of 30 to vote. The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 brought the voting age for women down to 21. [71]
She received 2.63% of the vote in South Dakota, her best state by percentage. Jorgensen was the only candidate to receive more than 2% of the vote in any one state. Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins was the only other third-party candidate to receive more than 1% of the vote in any state, which he did in Maine.
total vote Total vote 42.77 52.83 2.47 100 Ideology Liberals: 93 7 <1 29 Moderates: 53 41 5 26 Conservatives: 5 91 3 45 Party Democrats or lean Democrat 97 2 <1 38 Republicans or lean Republican 6 90 3 55 Independents: 40 38 14 6 Type of vote Election Day: 22 72 5 37 Early in-person 51 47 2 29 Mail: 59 38 1 34 Vote in 2016 Hillary Clinton: 98 1 ...
In 2012, the last election that featured Tester on the same ballot as the presidential election, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won by 13.64%, while Tester won by 3.72% without receiving a majority (50%) of the vote. [5] [6] [7] [8]