Post by mmorado on Feb 10, 2014 5:36:30 GMT
4 times in our history has the winner of the presidential election lost the popular vote.
1824 John Quincy Adams won by getting neither the popular or electoral vote.(Andrew Jackson got it by 99-84 electoral vote, and recieved 38,000 more votes, but still lost the election)
1876 Rutherford B Hayes won the election by 1 electoral vote, even though Samual Tilden had 250,000 more votes
1888 Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.
2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.
1824 John Quincy Adams won by getting neither the popular or electoral vote.(Andrew Jackson got it by 99-84 electoral vote, and recieved 38,000 more votes, but still lost the election)
1876 Rutherford B Hayes won the election by 1 electoral vote, even though Samual Tilden had 250,000 more votes
1888 Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.
2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.