Closest Presidential Elections By Electoral Votes, The 12 Closest Presidential Elections In United States History

Percentage of electoral college votes.

Nevada election predictions. Calhoun then dropped out of the race in a bid to get the vice presidency. Texan republican george w. Legal challenges eventually brought the race before the us.

Of the 58 presidential elections in the history of the united states 53 of the winners took both the electoral college and the popular vote. For the electoral college votes jackson received 99 32 less than the total needed to win majority of the electoral votes cast. After two terms as president george washington refused a third term which opened the door to the first us.

525 13 electoral college vote percentage. Blue denotes states won by kennedyjohnson red denotes those won by nixonlodge orange denotes the electoral votes for byrdthurmond by alabama and mississippi unpledged electors and a vote for byrdgoldwater by an oklahoma faithless electornumbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. The election featured a controversy over who won floridas 25 electoral votes and thus the presidency the.

Adams won nine states to jeffersons seven and took 71 electoral votes one more than was needed for a majority. Incorporating 1789 2016 presidential election data from 270towin dave leips atlas of us. The margin of victory in a us.

The united states presidential election of 2000 was a contest between democratic candidate al gore then vice president and republican candidate bush narrowly won the november 7 election with 271 electoral votes to gores 266. Elections and united states election project stacker ranked how close the electoral vote between the winning presidential candidate and the runner up candidate was in each of the 58 elections in american history. In fact gore received 05 percent more of the popular vote than bush but due to the numbers of electoral college votes allotted to each state bush won the electoral vote.

Presidential election results map. His winning total of 525 electoral votes remains the highest number of electoral votes ever received by a presidential candidate. In the popular vote jackson won by 152901 votes to adams 114023 clays 47217 and crawfords 46979 according to the miller center.

But in five incredibly close electionsincluding. Presidential election with the exception below would be the difference between the number of electoral college votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes currently 270 of 538 and the number received by the second place candidate currently in the range of 2 to 538 a margin of. Vote tallying was marred by inconsistencies particularly in florida where al gore demanded a recount.

Took the win in the 2000 election race over democrat al gore by only 5 electoral votes. A strong economy lifted reagan to a decisive re election victory in every state except mondales native minnesota. The 2000 presidential election was one of the most contentious in american history and one of the closestjust days before the election pollsters said it was too close to call.