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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 ...
A viral post shared on Threads claims President-elect Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2% in the 2024 election. ... and only won because of the electoral college means that he is a DEI ...
Republican support for replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote dropped significantly, from 54% in 2011 to 19% in 2016, which Gallup attributed to a partisan response to the 2016 result, where the Republican candidate Donald Trump won the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. [91]
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.
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 ...
Who won the popular vote in 2024? As of 1:51 p.m. ET on Nov. 6, Trump had 71,790,131 popular votes and Harris had 66,985,924. Trump currently leads Harris by approximately 4.8 million votes. Who ...