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In that election, Andrew Jackson lost in spite of having a plurality of both the popular vote and the number of electoral votes representing them. [209] Yet, as six states did not hold a popular election for their electoral votes, the full expression of the popular vote nationally cannot be known. [209] Some state legislatures simply chose ...
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.
Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Joe Biden: Democratic: Delaware: 81,283,501 51.31% 306 Kamala Harris: California: 306 Donald Trump (incumbent) Republican: Florida: 74,223,975 46.85% 232 Mike Pence (incumbent) Indiana: 232 Jo Jorgensen: Libertarian: South Carolina ...
The presidency is decided by vote of the Electoral College, a temporary slate of 538 electors, all chosen by their state political parties. Each elector casts one vote; a presidential candidate ...
The Electoral College, which was first created in 1787 by the Founding Fathers, was created as a compromise between picking a president through the popular vote or through Congress. It's meant to ...
Popular vote margin: Democratic +4.5%: Electoral vote: Joe Biden : 306: Donald Trump : 232: Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Biden/Harris, and red denotes states won by Trump/Pence. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state or district. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic gain ...
The 2020 census is shifting states' clout in presidential politics. The 2020 census population counts announced this week will result in 13 states seeing a change in their number of votes in the ...
On January 6, 2021, as Congress certified the Electoral College results confirming President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the winners, there was an objection to Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, brought forward by U.S. Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district and officially signed ...