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The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but although Cleveland received 5,534,488 popular votes against 5,443,892 votes for Harrison, a 90,596 vote lead, he lost in the Electoral College. Harrison won 233 electoral votes, Cleveland only 168. Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election. Harrison took the side of ...
The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. It is sorted to display elections by their presidential term/year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.
Lost the popular vote and electoral college, but won the contingent election. Adams was the last member of the Democratic-Republican party elected president and the only member of the National Republican party elected president.
—1824: Andrew Jackson won pluralities of both the popular vote and the Electoral College, but not a majority, sending the election to the House of Representatives.
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 ...
In 2016, though Trump won the presidency, Clinton clinched the popular vote by 2.9 million votes, according to a USA TODAY report. Biden won the popular vote and electoral vote in 2020 with ...
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 ...
Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress as it convened to count the electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021. ... lost the popular vote in 2000 but defeated Democrat Al ...