Closest Presidential Elections By Popular Vote, 50 Years Of Electoral College Maps How The U S Turned Red And Blue The New York Times

Electors are supposed to but not bound to cast their vote for the candidate their electorate has chosen.

Presidential elections by year. Calhoun then dropped out of the race in a bid to get the vice presidency. A strong economy lifted reagan to a decisive re election victory in every state except mondales native minnesota. Incorporating 1789 2016 presidential election data from 270towin dave leips atlas of us.

Legal challenges eventually brought the race before the us. This does not count george washington who was elected as an independent in 17881789 and 1792 but who largely supported federalist policies and was supported by federalists. Elections and united states election project stacker ranked how close the electoral vote between the.

Theres no clear winner yet in the 2020 presidential election but democratic nominee joe biden has already made history by winning the most votes a presidential candidate has ever received in a us. This was the last presidential election to be held on different days in different states as starting with the presidential election of 1848 all states held the election on the same. The united states presidential election of 1844 saw democrat james knox polk defeat whig henry clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy with polk favoring the annexation of texas and clay opposed.

His winning total of 525 electoral votes remains the highest number of electoral votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Vote tallying was marred by inconsistencies particularly in florida where al gore demanded a recount. Percentage of electoral college votes.

In the popular vote jackson won by 152901 votes to adams 114023 clays 47217 and crawfords 46979 according to the miller center. The result of this is that there are two ways to measure the outcome of an electionthe electoral vote and the popular vote. The candidate that wins the electoral college wins the presidential election.

The electoral colleges votes decide the outcome of the election regardless of the outcome of the popular votes. Bush took 507 percent of the popular vote and is the last republican candidate to win more than half. Though most presidential elections have matched up in terms of who won both the popular and electoral majorities there have been five separate occasions when the winner lost the popular vote but was nevertheless.

For the electoral college votes jackson received 99 32 less than the total needed to win majority of the electoral votes cast. The former vice president has amassed more than 70 million votes so far breaking the. Supreme court where calls for a recount were.

In the 58 presidential elections since 1788 third party or independent candidates have won at least 50 of the vote or garnered electoral votes 12 times 21.