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The appointment of electors is a matter for each state's legislature to determine; in 1872 and in every presidential election since 1880, all states have used a popular vote to do so. The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and
2020. California restores voting rights to citizens serving parole. [65] Washington, D.C. passes a law to allow incarcerated felons to vote. [65] People with a felony conviction have their right to vote in Iowa restored with some restrictions and each potential voter must have completed their sentence. [65]
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote, compared to Trump's 232 electoral votes and 46.8% of the popular vote. Biden won every state that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election , as well as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and ...
However, candidates have failed to get the most votes in the nationwide popular vote in a presidential election and still won. In the 1824 election, Jackson won the popular vote, but no one received a majority of electoral votes. According to the Twelfth Amendment, the House must choose the president out of the top three people in the election.
A map of voter turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election by state (no data for Washington, D.C.) Approximately 161 million people were registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 96.3% ballots were submitted, totaling 158,427,986 votes. Roughly 81 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot. [3]
The timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election has been split into three parts for convenience: Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (2017–2019) Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (January–October 2020) Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (November 2020–January 2021)
This was the first time since 1948 that Democrats won the popular vote in four elections in a row. Biden was the second former vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to win the presidency, as well as the first vice president since George H. W. Bush in 1988 to be elected president. [329]