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Of the five winners who lost the popular vote, three (Adams, Harrison, and Trump) ran for reelection four years later and lost the popular vote, one (Bush) ran and won the election as well as the popular vote, and one (Hayes) did not run for re-election. Trump ran for reelection eight years later, winning the election and the popular vote.
Since 1824, the national popular vote has been recorded, [1] but the national popular vote does not determine the winner of the presidential election. There have been five presidential elections in which the winner did not win a majority or a plurality of the popular vote.
Data included in the BBC article shows Trump won 49.9% of the popular vote while his Democratic challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris, won 48.3% of the popular vote. The data is sourced from ...
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. As the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win a presidential election in the United States, winning 39.8 percent of the popular vote and defeating the nearest of his three ...
In 2020, President Joe Biden won the popular vote in Vermont with more than 240,000 individual votes, while Trump won more than 110,000, according to FEC data.
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.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won the popular vote in Massachusetts with more than 2.3 million individual votes, while Trump won more than 1.1 million, according to FEC data.