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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.

Presidential elections by year list. The electoral colleges votes decide the outcome of the election regardless of the outcome of the popular votes. 525 13 electoral college vote percentage. 11 electoral votes trump leads by 75 percentage points.

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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. 5520 carters win over the incumbent gerald ford was the only presidential election victory for the democrats in the six elections that took place from 1968 to 1988. For purposes of this article we are using electoral votes as a measure and not the popular vote.

The first us presidential election in 1789 was a unanimous win for george washington with 69 seats in the electoral college at the time. 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. 6 electoral votes trump leads by 96 percentage points.

His winning total of 525 electoral votes remains the highest number of electoral votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Fittingly the first election would become the only election in us history to see a unanimous victory. Here are the top 10 presidential elections based on the electoral college votes.

297 to 240 percentage of electoral college votes. In presidential elections a landslide election is generally agreed to be one in which the winning candidate secures at least 375 or 70 percent of the 538 electoral votes in the electoral college. Vote tallying was marred by inconsistencies particularly in florida where al gore demanded a recount.

Legal challenges eventually brought the race before the us. The margin of victory in a us. 3 electoral votes trump leads by 78 percentage points.

A strong economy lifted reagan to a decisive re election victory in every state except mondales native minnesota. Heres a look at the 17 closest presidential elections. How biden and trump are polling in the closest states states electoral votes average poll margin percentage points kansas.

Throughout our countrys short history we have had more than our fair share of presidential elections that were too close to call. Obama the incumbent earned a narrow victory at the polls but won big in the electoral college.