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  2. List of United States presidential elections by popular vote ...

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    In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. However, the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...

  3. 2009 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district. Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.

  4. Electoral history of Barack Obama - Wikipedia

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    Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously represented by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive ...

  5. List of United States presidential candidates by number of ...

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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.

  6. List of United States presidential elections by Electoral ...

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    The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...

  7. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    Unlike simple congressional district comparisons, the district plan popular vote bonus in the 2008 election would have given Obama 56% of the Electoral College versus the 68% he did win; it "would have more closely approximated the percentage of the popular vote won [53%]". [222]

  8. 111th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    January 8, 2009: Joint session counted the Electoral College votes of the 2008 presidential election. [9] January 20, 2009: Barack Obama became 44th President of the United States. February 24, 2009: President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress; April 28, 2009: Senator Arlen Specter switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic ...

  9. United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    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.