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  2. 2016 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama won in 2012 switched to Trump (Electoral College votes in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and ...

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

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    Thus it is possible for the winner of the popular vote to end up losing the election, an outcome that has occurred on five occasions, most recently in the 2016 election. This is because presidential elections are indirect elections ; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College .

  4. 2016 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The election is one of five presidential elections in American history that the winner of the popular vote did not win the presidency. Libertarian Gary Johnson won 3.3% of the popular vote, the strongest performance by a third party presidential nominee since the 1996 election.

  5. Hillary Clinton wins popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots

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    The sheer margin of Clinton's popular-vote victory is sure to intensify Democratic arguments that Trump isn't the president preferred by most Americans. Hillary Clinton wins popular vote by nearly ...

  6. How many states did Trump win? A state-by-state look ... - AOL

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    American history was changed forever in November 2016 when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. ... winner of the 2016 election and ...

  7. List of United States presidential elections in which the ...

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    Consequently, there are multiple possible ways to calculate the popular vote that each candidate received. Historian and Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote that, "It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was" and under one hypothesized scenario "Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000". [43]

  8. 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

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    In the general election, Clinton won Massachusetts with 60.01% of the vote, while Trump received 32.81%. This marked the fourth consecutive election in which the Democratic candidate won over 60% of the vote, and the seventh in a row in which they won in every single county in the state, thus making Massachusetts and Hawaii the only states in ...

  9. Here's what you need to know about the effort to override the ...

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    The 2016 Presidential election had a 56.4% voter turnout. President Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, 62,984,828 to 65,853,514. But, President trump won the Electoral vote, 304 - 227 ...