There have been five United States presidential elections in which the successful presidential candidate did not receive a plurality of the popular vote, including the 1824 election, which was the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded.[1] In these cases, the successful candidate secured less of the national popular vote than another candidate who received more votes, either a majority, more than half the vote, or a plurality of the vote.[2][3] In the U.S. presidential election system, instead of the nationwide popular vote determining the outcome of the election, the president of the United States is determined by votes cast by electors of the Electoral College. Alternatively, if no candidate receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, the election is determined by the House of Representatives. These procedures are governed by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It is important to note that the U.S. Constitution does not require states to hold a popular vote,[4] however, since 1880, electors in every state have been chosen based on a popular election held on Election Day.[5] When American voters cast ballots in a general presidential election, they are choosing electors. In 48 of the 50 states, state laws mandate the winner of the plurality of its statewide popular vote shall receive all of that state's electors;[6] in Maine and Nebraska, two electors are assigned in this manner, while the remaining electors are allocated based on the plurality of votes in each of their congressional districts.[7] The federal district, Washington, D.C., allocates its 3 electoral votes to the winner of its single district election. States generally require electors to pledge to vote for that state's winning ticket; to avoid faithless electors, most states have adopted various laws to enforce the electors’ pledge.[8] The "national popular vote" is the sum of all the votes cast in the general election, nationwide. The presidential elections of 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 produced an Electoral College winner who did not receive the most votes in the general election.[9][10][11] Additionally, in 14 other presidential elections (1844, 1848, 1856, 1860, 1880, 1884, 1892, 1912, 1916, 1948, 1960, 1968, 1992, and 1996), the winner received a plurality but not a majority of the total popular votes cast. Of the five winners who lost the popular vote, three (Adams, Harrison, and Trump) ran for reelection four years later and lost the popular vote again and lost the election as well, one (Bush) ran and won the election as well as the popular vote, and one (Hayes) did not run for reelection. As of 2020, no incumbent president has won re-election without winning the popular vote, and no president has won two terms in office without winning the popular vote at least once.[original research] In 1824, there were six states in which electors were legislatively appointed rather than popularly elected, meaning the 'national' popular vote in that election does not include all states, so its significance is uncertain. When no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in 1824, the House of Representatives decided the election. These circumstances distinguish the 1824 election from the latter four elections, which were all held after all states had instituted the popular selection of electors, and in which a single candidate won an outright majority of electoral votes, thus becoming president without a contingent election in the House of Representatives.[12] The true national popular vote total was also uncertain in the 1960 election, and the plurality winner depends on how votes for Alabama electors are allocated.[13]
Andrew Jackson (left) won 10.5% more of the popular vote than elected President John Quincy Adams (right) in 1824. The 1824 presidential election, held on October 26, 1824, was the first election in American history in which the popular vote mattered, as 18 states chose presidential electors by popular vote (six states still left the choice up to their state legislatures). When the final votes were tallied in those 18 states on December 1, Andrew Jackson polled 152,901 popular votes to John Quincy Adams's 114,023; Henry Clay won 47,217, and William H. Crawford won 46,979. However, the electoral college returns gave Jackson only 99 votes, 32 fewer than he needed for a majority of the total votes cast. Adams won 84 electoral votes, followed by 41 for Crawford, and 37 for Clay when the Electoral College met on December 1, 1824.[14] All four candidates in the election identified with the Democratic-Republican Party. As no candidate secured the required number of votes (131 total) from the Electoral College, the House of Representatives decided the election under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. As the 12th Amendment states that the top three candidates in the electoral vote are candidates in the contingent election, Henry Clay, who finished fourth, was eliminated. However, as Speaker of the House, Clay was still the most important player in determining the election outcome. The contingent election was held on February 9, 1825, with each state having one vote, as determined by the wishes of the majority of each state's congressional representatives. Adams narrowly emerged as the winner, with majorities of the Representatives from 13 out of 24 states voting in his favor. Most of Clay's supporters, joined by several old Federalists, switched their votes to Adams in enough states to give him the election. Soon after his inauguration as President, Adams appointed Henry Clay as his secretary of state.[14] This result became a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a "corrupt bargain," and were inspired to create the Democratic Party.[15][16] 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden (left) won 6.3% more of the popular vote than elected President Rutherford B. Hayes (right) in 1876. The 1876 presidential election, held on November 7, 1876, was one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history. The result of the election remains among the most disputed ever. However, there is no question that Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, with Tilden winning 4,288,546 votes and Hayes winning 4,034,311. Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote.[17] After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states: in the case of Florida (4 votes), Louisiana (8 votes), and South Carolina (7 votes), each party reported its candidate had won the state. In Oregon, one elector was declared illegal (as an "elected or appointed official") and replaced. The question of who should have been awarded these 20 electoral votes is at the heart of the ongoing debate about the election of 1876. The 15-man Electoral Commission was formed on January 29, 1877, to debate about the 20 electoral votes that were in dispute. The Commission consisted of five men from the House and the Senate, plus five Supreme Court justices. Eight members were Republicans; seven were Democrats. The voter returns accepted by the Commission put Hayes' margin of victory in Oregon at 1,057 votes, Florida at 922 votes, Louisiana at 4,807 votes, and South Carolina at 889 votes; the closest popular vote margin in a decisive state in U.S. history until the presidential election of 2000. In late February, the Commission voted along party lines by a vote of 8 to 7 to award all 20 of the disputed electoral votes to Hayes, thus assuring his electoral victory by a margin of 185–184. On March 2, an informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877. In return for the Democrats' acquiescence in Hayes' election (who agreed to serve only one four-year term as President and not to seek reelection as a provision of the deal), the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. The Compromise effectively ceded power in the Southern states to the Democratic Redeemers, who went on to pursue their agenda of returning the South to a political economy resembling that of its pre-war condition, including the disenfranchisement of black voters and setting the groundwork for what would be known as the Jim Crow era.[18][19] 1888: Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland (left) won 0.8% more of the popular vote than elected President Benjamin Harrison (right) in 1888. In the 1888 election, held on November 6, 1888, Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, tried to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana. The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but although Cleveland received 5,534,488 popular votes against 5,443,892 votes for Harrison, a 90,596 vote lead, he lost in the Electoral College. Harrison won 233 electoral votes, Cleveland only 168. Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election. Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers. His opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps. Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest states, losing the popular vote only in Connecticut (by 336 votes) and New Jersey (by 7,148 votes), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York (by 14,373 votes) and Indiana (by 2,348 votes) (Cleveland and Harrison's respective home states) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote (New York with 36 electoral votes and Indiana with 15 electoral votes). Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the 36 electoral votes of his home state.[20][21] Cleveland would later successfully seek a second term in the 1892 presidential election, becoming the only president in US history to serve two non-consecutive terms. 2000: George W. Bush
Al Gore (left) won 0.5% more of the popular vote than elected President George W. Bush (right) in 2000. The 2000 presidential election, held on November 7, 2000, pitted Republican candidate George W. Bush (the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush) against Democratic candidate Al Gore (the incumbent vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton). Despite Gore having received 543,895 more votes (a lead of 0.51 percent of all votes cast), the Electoral College chose Bush as president by a vote of 271 to 266.[22] Vice President Gore secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease. Bush was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and despite a contentious primary battle with Senator John McCain and other candidates, secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. Many third-party candidates also ran, most prominently Ralph Nader. Bush chose former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney as his running mate, and Gore chose Senator Joe Lieberman as his. Both major-party candidates focused primarily on domestic issues, such as the budget, tax relief, and reforms for federal social-insurance programs, though foreign policy was not ignored.[23] The result of the election hinged on voting in Florida, where Bush's narrow margin of victory of just 537 votes out of almost six million votes cast on election night triggered a mandatory recount. Litigation in select counties started additional recounts. This litigation ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court. The Court's contentious decision in Bush v. Gore, announced on December 12, 2000, ended the recounts, effectively awarding Florida's 25 Electoral College votes to Bush and granting him the victory. Later studies have reached conflicting opinions on who would have won the recount had it been allowed to proceed.[24] Nationwide, George Bush received 50,456,002 votes (47.87%) and Gore received 50,999,897 (48.38%).[22] 2016: Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton (left) won 2.1% more of the popular vote than elected President Donald Trump (right) in 2016. The 2016 presidential election, held on November 8, 2016, featured Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (former U.S. Senator from New York, Secretary of State, and First Lady to President Bill Clinton) and Republican nominee Donald Trump, a businessman (owner of the Trump Organization)[25][26] from New York City. Both nominees had turbulent journeys in primary races,[27][28] and were seen unfavorably by the general public.[29] The election saw multiple third-party candidates,[30] and there were over a million write-in votes cast.[31] During the 2016 election, "pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent."[32] National polls were generally accurate, showing a Clinton lead of about 3% in the national popular vote (she ultimately won the two-party national popular vote by 2.2%).[32] State-level polls "showed a competitive, uncertain contest ... but clearly under-estimated Trump's support in the Upper Midwest."[32] Trump exceeded expectations on Election Day by winning the traditionally Democratic Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins.[33] Clinton recorded large margins in large states such as California, Illinois, and New York, winning California by a margin of nearly 4.3 million votes, while coming closer to winning Texas, Arizona, and Georgia than any Democratic nominee since the turn of the millennium, but still losing by a significant margin.[34] Clinton also won the Democratic medium-sized states such as Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington with vast margins. Clinton managed to edge out Trump in Virginia, a swing state where her running mate Tim Kaine had served as Governor. Trump also won the traditional bellwether state of Florida, as well as the recent battleground state of North Carolina, further contributing to the electoral flip of the popular vote. Trump won by a large margin in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. When the Electoral College cast its votes on December 19, 2016,[35] Trump received 304 votes to Clinton's 227 with seven electors defecting to other choices, the most faithless electors (2 from Trump, 5 from Clinton) in any presidential election in over a hundred years. Clinton had nonetheless received almost three million more votes (65,853,514 − 62,984,828 = 2,868,686) in the general election than Trump, giving Clinton a popular vote lead of 2.1% over Trump.[36] During his first meeting with Congressional leaders after the election, Trump used the occasion "to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority".[37][38] Trump repeated this debunked claim in a meeting with members of Congress in 2017,[37] in a speech in April 2018,[39] and in a television interview in June 2019.[40]
There is disagreement about whether Richard Nixon (left) or elected President John F. Kennedy (right) won more of the popular vote in 1960. In the 1960 United States presidential election, Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy defeated Republican candidate Richard Nixon, winning 303 Electoral College votes to Nixon's 219. Kennedy is generally considered to have won the popular vote as well, by a narrow margin of 0.17 percent (the second narrowest winning margin ever, after the 1880 election), but based on the unusual nature of the election in Alabama, political journalists such as John Fund, Sean Trende and Patrick Novotny were able to later argue that Nixon actually won the popular vote.[42][43][44] Alabama's Pledged and Unpledged ElectorsThe most well-known controversy stemmed from the fact that ballots in Alabama listed the individual electors pledged to the candidates, rather than a single slate of electors for each candidate as in all the other states. There were 11 Republican electors pledged to Nixon, 6 unpledged Democratic electors, and 5 Democratic electors pledged to Kennedy, from which each voter could choose up to 11.[45] Consequently, there are multiple possible ways to calculate the popular vote that each candidate received. Historian and Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote that, "It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was" and under one hypothesized scenario "Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000".[46] The 15 Electoral College vote for Democrat Byrd – who was not a candidate nor did he campaign – provide the fodder for arguing with regard to various scenarios. According to political scientist Steven Schier, "If one divides the Alabama Democratic votes proportionately between the Kennedy and Byrd slates, Nixon ekes out a 50,000 vote popular plurality"; this margin of 0.07 percent would have been the narrowest margin ever in a presidential election, with no impact on the Electoral College results.[47][48] The Congressional Quarterly calculated the popular vote in this manner at the time of the 1960 election.[42] In the event, the state's electoral votes were awarded to the Democratic slate, of which the six unpledged electors cast their votes for non-candidate Harry F. Byrd as a protest against Kennedy's support for civil rights, while the other five electors voted for Kennedy. Georgia's "Freed" ElectorsA lesser known argument against the declaration of a Kennedy plurality in the popular vote comes from the assignment of votes for Georgia's slate of Democratic presidential electors. As Patrick Novotny notes in his assessment of the election, Georgia's Democratic electors voted in a primary to "free" their electors from their pledges to the national candidates, whether or not they knew the meaning of the ballot question's wording[44]. However, despite "Georgia's twelve electors [being] unpledged under state law[,] Gov[ernor] S. Ernest Vandiver and other state leaders had announced their intentions before Tuesday's balloting to [vote the Democratic electors as a way to] vote for Senator Kennedy", and all twelve electors ultimately did make the decision to vote for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in the Electoral College [49]. The votes for these "freed" Democratic electors are included in Kennedy's reported national vote total because of their final decision to back him, but excluding these votes under the justification that they were for unpledged electors leaves Kennedy with a 340,000 vote deficit against Nixon, even if all of Alabama's Democratic votes went to Kennedy.
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You can view and copy the source of this page: ==Presidential elections== ===1824: John Quincy Adams=== {{Main|1824 United States presidential election}} {{multiple image | total_width = 210 | image1 = Andrew Jackson Daguerrotype-crop.jpg | width1 = 107 | alt1 = Andrew Jackson | image2 = JQA Photo.tif | width2 = 103 | alt2 = John Quincy Adams | footer = [[Andrew Jackson]] (left) won 10.5% more of the popular vote than elected President [[John Quincy Adams]] (right) in 1824. }} The [[1824 United States presidential election|1824 presidential election]], held on October 26, 1824, was the first election in American history in which the popular vote mattered, as 18 states chose presidential electors by popular vote (six states still left the choice up to their state legislatures). When the final votes were tallied in those 18 states on December 1, [[Andrew Jackson]] polled 152,901 popular votes to [[John Quincy Adams]]'s 114,023; [[Henry Clay]] won 47,217, and [[William H. Crawford]] won 46,979. However, the electoral college returns gave Jackson only 99 votes, 32 fewer than he needed for a majority of the total votes cast. Adams won 84 electoral votes, followed by 41 for Crawford, and 37 for Clay when the Electoral College met on December 1, 1824.<ref name=JQAMC>{{cite web|title=John Quincy Adams: Campaigns and Elections|date=October 4, 2016|publisher=Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia|url=http://millercenter.org/president/biography/jqadams-campaigns-and-elections#contributor|access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-date=February 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223125212/http://millercenter.org/president/biography/jqadams-campaigns-and-elections#contributor|url-status=live}}</ref> All four candidates in the election identified with the [[Democratic-Republican Party]]. As no candidate secured the required number of votes (131 total) from the Electoral College, the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] decided the election under the provisions of the [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution]]. As the 12th Amendment states that the top three candidates in the electoral vote are candidates in the [[Contingent election#Presidential election of 1824|contingent election]], Henry Clay, who finished fourth, was eliminated. However, as [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]], Clay was still the most important player in determining the election outcome. The contingent election was held on February 9, 1825, with each state having one vote, as determined by the wishes of the majority of each state's congressional representatives. Adams narrowly emerged as the winner, with majorities of the Representatives from 13 out of 24 states voting in his favor. Most of Clay's supporters, joined by several old [[Federalist Party|Federalists]], switched their votes to Adams in enough states to give him the election. Soon after his inauguration as President, Adams appointed Henry Clay as his [[United States Secretary of State|secretary of state]].<ref name=JQAMC/> This result became a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a "[[Corrupt bargain#Election of 1824|corrupt bargain]]," and were inspired to create the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>[http://history1800s.about.com/od/leaders/a/electionof1824.htm "The Election of 1824 Was Decided in the House of Representatives: The Controversial Election was Denounced as 'The Corrupt Bargain'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307212214/http://history1800s.about.com/od/leaders/a/electionof1824.htm |date=2009-03-07 }}, Robert McNamara, About.com.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Stenberg | first1 = R. R. | title = Jackson, Buchanan, and the "Corrupt Bargain" Calumny | journal = The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography | volume = 58 | issue = 1 | pages = 61–85 | year = 1934| jstor = 20086857 }}</ref> ===1876: Rutherford B. Hayes=== {{Main|1876 United States presidential election}} {{multiple image | total_width = 210 | image1 = SamuelJonesTilden.jpg | width1 = 100 | alt1 = Samuel J. Tilden | image2 = President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored (cropped).jpg | width2 = 100 | alt2 = Rutherford B. Hayes | footer = [[Samuel J. Tilden]] (left) won 6.3% more of the popular vote than elected President [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] (right) in 1876. | align = | direction = | caption1 = | caption2 = }} The [[1876 United States presidential election|1876 presidential election]], held on November 7, 1876, was one of the most contentious and controversial [[United States presidential election|presidential elections]] in American history. The result of the election remains among the most disputed ever. However, there is no question that [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Samuel J. Tilden]] of New York outpolled Ohio's [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] in the popular vote, with Tilden winning 4,288,546 votes and Hayes winning 4,034,311. Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote.<ref>Faber, Richard and Bedford, Elizabeth. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q0BBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 Domestic Programs of the American Presidents: A Critical Evaluation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809022917/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q0BBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |date=2020-08-09 }}'', p. 81 (McFarland 2008): "While other presidential candidates have received a plurality of popular votes and lost, Tilden has been the only presidential candidate to receive a majority of the popular vote and lose."</ref> After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 [[United States Electoral College|electoral votes]] to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states: in the case of Florida (4 votes), Louisiana (8 votes), and South Carolina (7 votes), each party reported its candidate had won the state. In Oregon, one elector was declared illegal (as an "elected or appointed official") and replaced. The question of who should have been awarded these 20 electoral votes is at the heart of the ongoing debate about the election of 1876. The 15-man [[Electoral Commission (United States)|Electoral Commission]] was formed on January 29, 1877, to debate about the 20 electoral votes that were in dispute. The Commission consisted of five men from the House and the Senate, plus five Supreme Court justices. Eight members were Republicans; seven were Democrats. The voter returns accepted by the Commission put Hayes' margin of victory in Oregon at 1,057 votes, Florida at 922 votes, Louisiana at 4,807 votes, and South Carolina at 889 votes; the closest popular vote margin in a decisive state in U.S. history until the presidential election of 2000. In late February, the Commission voted along party lines by a vote of 8 to 7 to award all 20 of the disputed electoral votes to Hayes, thus assuring his electoral victory by a margin of 185–184. On March 2, an informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the [[Compromise of 1877]]. In return for the Democrats' acquiescence in Hayes' election (who agreed to serve only one four-year term as President and not to seek reelection as a provision of the deal), the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]. The Compromise effectively ceded power in the Southern states to the Democratic [[Redeemers]], who went on to pursue their agenda of returning the South to a political economy resembling that of its pre-war condition, including the disenfranchisement of black voters and setting the groundwork for what would be known as the [[Jim Crow]] era.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Freedman|first2=Eric|title=Presidents and Black America|date=2011|publisher=[[CQ Press]]|isbn=9781608710089|page=[https://archive.org/details/presidentsblacka0000jone/page/218 218]|quote=In an eleventh-hour compromise between party leaders - considered the "Great Betrayal" by many blacks and southern Republicans ...|url=https://archive.org/details/presidentsblacka0000jone/page/218}}</ref><ref>Downs, 2012{{full citation needed|date=November 2016}}</ref> ===1888: Benjamin Harrison=== {{Main|1888 United States presidential election}} {{multiple image | total_width = 210 | image1 = StephenGroverCleveland.png | width1 = 107 | alt1 = Grover Cleveland | image2 = Pach Brothers - Benjamin Harrison.jpg | width2 = 99 | alt2 = Benjamin Harrison | footer = [[Grover Cleveland]] (left) won 0.8% more of the popular vote than elected President [[Benjamin Harrison]] (right) in 1888. }} In the [[1888 United States presidential election|1888 election]], held on November 6, 1888, [[Grover Cleveland]] of [[New York (state)|New York]], the incumbent president and a Democrat, tried to secure a second term against the Republican nominee [[Benjamin Harrison]], a former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Indiana]]. The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but although Cleveland received 5,534,488 popular votes against 5,443,892 votes for Harrison, a 90,596 vote lead, he lost in the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]]. Harrison won 233 electoral votes, Cleveland only 168. [[Tariff in United States history|Tariff policy]] was the principal issue in the election. Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers. His opposition to [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[pension]]s and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states and appealed to former Republican [[Mugwumps]]. Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest states, losing the popular vote only in Connecticut (by 336 votes) and New Jersey (by 7,148 votes), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York (by 14,373 votes) and Indiana (by 2,348 votes) (Cleveland and Harrison's respective home states) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]] (New York with 36 electoral votes and Indiana with 15 electoral votes). Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the [[Tammany Hall]] political machine in [[New York City]] helped deny Cleveland the 36 electoral votes of his home state.<ref>Calhoun, page 43{{full citation needed|date=November 2016}}</ref><ref>Socolofsky & Spetter, page 13{{full citation needed|date=November 2016}}</ref> Cleveland would later successfully seek a second term in the [[1892 United States presidential election|1892 presidential election]], becoming the only president in US history to serve two non-consecutive terms. ===2000: George W. Bush=== {{Main|2000 United States presidential election}} {{multiple image | total_width = 210 | image1 = Al Gore, Vice President of the United States, official portrait 1994.jpg | width1 = 108 | alt1 = Al Gore | image2 = George-W-Bush.jpeg | width2 = 102 | alt2 = George W. Bush | footer = [[Al Gore]] (left) won 0.5% more of the popular vote than elected President [[George W. Bush]] (right) in 2000. }} The [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 presidential election]], held on November 7, 2000, pitted Republican candidate [[George W. Bush]] (the incumbent [[governor of Texas]] and son of former president [[George H. W. Bush]]) against Democratic candidate [[Al Gore]] (the incumbent [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]] under [[Bill Clinton]]). Despite Gore having received 543,895 more votes (a lead of 0.51 percent of all votes cast), the Electoral College chose Bush as president by a vote of 271 to 266.<ref name=el2000>{{cite web|title=2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL AND POPULAR VOTE|url=http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/elecpop.htm|publisher=[[Federal Election Commission]]|access-date=March 22, 2017|archive-date=May 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516164452/http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/elecpop.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Vice President Gore secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease. Bush was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and despite a contentious primary battle with Senator [[John McCain]] and other candidates, secured the nomination by [[Super Tuesday]]. Many third-party candidates also ran, most prominently [[Ralph Nader]]. Bush chose former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Dick Cheney]] as his running mate, and Gore chose Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] as his. Both major-party candidates focused primarily on domestic issues, such as the budget, tax relief, and reforms for federal [[social insurance|social-insurance]] programs, though foreign policy was not ignored.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/us/once-close-to-clinton-gore-keeps-a-distance.html|title=Once Close to Clinton, Gore Keeps a Distance|date=October 20, 2000|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 10, 2016|archive-date=November 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110082723/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/us/once-close-to-clinton-gore-keeps-a-distance.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The result of the election hinged on [[2000 United States presidential election in Florida|voting in Florida]], where Bush's narrow margin of victory of just 537 votes out of almost six million votes cast on [[election day|election night]] triggered a mandatory recount. Litigation in select counties started additional recounts. This litigation ultimately reached the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]]. The Court's contentious decision in ''[[Bush v. Gore]]'', announced on December 12, 2000, ended the recounts, effectively awarding Florida's 25 Electoral College votes to Bush and granting him the victory. Later studies have reached conflicting opinions on who would have won the recount had it been allowed to proceed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html|title=Who really won Bush-Gore election?|author=Wade Payson-Denney|date=October 31, 2015|work=CNN|access-date=November 10, 2016|archive-date=November 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110082724/http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Nationwide, George Bush received 50,456,002 votes (47.87%) and Gore received 50,999,897 (48.38%).<ref name=el2000/> ===2016: Donald Trump=== {{Main|2016 United States presidential election}} {{multiple image | total_width = 210 | image1 = Hillary Clinton crop.jpg | width1 = 91 | alt1 = Hillary Clinton | image2 = Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg | width2 = 98 | alt2 = Donald Trump | footer = [[Hillary Clinton]] (left) won 2.1% more of the popular vote than elected President [[Donald Trump]] (right) in 2016. }} The [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]], held on November 8, 2016, featured Democratic nominee [[Hillary Clinton]] (former [[List of United States senators from New York|U.S. Senator from New York]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], and [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] to President [[Bill Clinton]]) and Republican nominee [[Donald Trump]], a businessman (owner of the [[The Trump Organization|Trump Organization]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lczUCwAAQBAJ&q=trump+organization&pg=PT12|title=Donald Trump: Life and Business Lessons|last=Rockefeller|first=J. D.|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=J.D. Rockefeller|isbn=9781519453945|language=en|access-date=October 18, 2020|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111024820/https://books.google.com/books?id=lczUCwAAQBAJ&q=trump+organization&pg=PT12|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=duilDQAAQBAJ&q=trump+organization&pg=PA21|title=Donald Trump: Outspoken Personality and President|last=Sherman|first=Jill|date=April 1, 2017|publisher=Lerner Publications|isbn=9781512438574|language=en|access-date=October 18, 2020|archive-date=November 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110124101/https://books.google.com/books?id=duilDQAAQBAJ&q=trump+organization&pg=PA21|url-status=live}}</ref> from [[New York City]]. Both nominees had turbulent journeys in primary races,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-democratic-platform-orlando-story.html|title=Sanders backers frustrated by defeats at Orlando platform meeting|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|access-date=July 25, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730045059/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-democratic-platform-orlando-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-cruz-idUSKCN0VC1Z6|title=Trump accuses Cruz of stealing Iowa caucuses through 'fraud'|first=Amy|last=Tennery|date=February 4, 2016|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=July 2, 2017|archive-date=February 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203215800/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-cruz-idUSKCN0VC1Z6|url-status=live}}</ref> and were seen unfavorably by the general public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president/clintontrumpfavorability.html|title=Clinton & Trump: Favorability Ratings|website=[[Real Clear Politics]]|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-date=November 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119064653/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president/clintontrumpfavorability.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The election saw multiple third-party candidates,<ref>{{cite web|first=Tessa|last=Berenson|url=http://time.com/4562735/third-parties-election-results-gary-johnson-jill-stein-evan-mcmullin/|title=Third Parties Faded to the Background in a Shocking Election|magazine=Time|date=November 9, 2016|access-date=January 28, 2017|archive-date=February 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219062432/http://time.com/4562735/third-parties-election-results-gary-johnson-jill-stein-evan-mcmullin/|url-status=live}}</ref> and there were over a million [[Write-in candidate|write-in votes]] cast.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Warner|first1=Claire|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/190417-ralph-nader-got-the-most-write-in-votes-for-president-ever-but-election-write-ins-have-a-long|title=Ralph Nader Got The Most Write-In Votes For President Ever, But Election Write-Ins Have A Long History|access-date=December 2, 2016|archive-date=December 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203123640/https://www.bustle.com/articles/190417-ralph-nader-got-the-most-write-in-votes-for-president-ever-but-election-write-ins-have-a-long|url-status=live}}</ref> During the 2016 election, "pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent."<ref name="Kennedy">{{Cite web|first=Courtney|last=Kennedy|display-authors=etal|url=https://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/Reports/An-Evaluation-of-2016-Election-Polls-in-the-U-S.aspx|title=An Evaluation of 2016 Election Polls in the U.S.|publisher=[[American Association for Public Opinion Research]], Ad Hoc Committee on 2016 Election Polling|access-date=2018-04-14|archive-date=2018-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415063428/https://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/Reports/An-Evaluation-of-2016-Election-Polls-in-the-U-S.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> National polls were generally accurate, showing a Clinton lead of about 3% in the national popular vote (she ultimately won the two-party national popular vote by 2.2%).<ref name="Kennedy"/> State-level polls "showed a competitive, uncertain contest ... but clearly under-estimated Trump's support in the [[Upper Midwest]]."<ref name="Kennedy"/> Trump exceeded expectations on Election Day by winning the traditionally Democratic [[Rust Belt]] states of [[2016 United States presidential election in Michigan|Michigan]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], and [[2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] by narrow margins.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-blue-wall |title=Trump stomps all over the Democrats' Blue Wall |work=[[CNN]] |date=November 9, 2016 |access-date=December 28, 2016 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220121025/http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-blue-wall |url-status=live }}</ref> Clinton recorded large margins in large states such as [[2016 United States presidential election in California|California]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Illinois|Illinois]], and [[2016 United States presidential election in New York|New York]], winning California by a margin of nearly 4.3 million votes, while coming closer to winning [[2016 United States presidential election in Texas|Texas]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Arizona|Arizona]], and [[2016 United States presidential election in Georgia|Georgia]] than any Democratic nominee since the turn of the millennium, but still losing by a significant margin.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president|title=Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 20, 2016|archive-date=February 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227084943/http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president|url-status=live}}</ref> Clinton also won the Democratic medium-sized states such as [[2016 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], [[2016 United States presidential election in New Jersey|New Jersey]], and [[2016 United States presidential election in Washington (state)|Washington]] with vast margins. Clinton managed to edge out Trump in Virginia, a swing state where her running mate [[Tim Kaine]] had served as Governor. Trump also won the traditional bellwether state of [[2016 United States presidential election in Florida|Florida]], as well as the recent battleground state of [[2016 United States presidential election in North Carolina|North Carolina]], further contributing to the electoral flip of the popular vote. Trump won by a large margin in [[2016 United States presidential election in Indiana|Indiana]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Missouri|Missouri]], [[2016 United States presidential election in Ohio|Ohio]], and [[2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee|Tennessee]]. When the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] cast its votes on December 19, 2016,<ref>{{cite web|title=Electoral College Timeline of Key Dates|url=https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/resources/2016-key-dates.pdf|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register|access-date=2016-11-10|archive-date=2016-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220050926/https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/resources/2016-key-dates.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Trump received 304 votes to Clinton's 227 with seven electors defecting to other choices, the most [[faithless elector]]s (2 from Trump, 5 from Clinton) in any presidential election in over a hundred years. Clinton had nonetheless received almost three million more votes (65,853,514 − 62,984,828 = 2,868,686) in the [[2016 United States presidential election|general election]] than Trump, giving Clinton a popular vote lead of 2.1% over Trump.<ref name=e2016>{{cite web|title=FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2016 -- Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives|url=https://www.fec.gov/documents/1889/federalelections2016.pdf|publisher=[[Federal Elections Commission]]|date=December 2017|access-date=August 12, 2020}}</ref> <!-- ====================================== PLEASE NOTE: Many users have this page on their watchlists. Before making substantial changes to the following paragraph, consult this article's Talk page to see the local consensus on [[WP:Verifiability]]. The claim by Donald Trump is false and was deceptively presented as fact, making it a lie. ======================== --> During his first meeting with Congressional leaders after the election, Trump used the occasion "to falsely claim that millions of [[Illegal immigration to the United States|unauthorized immigrants]] had robbed him of a popular vote majority".<ref name="Repeats">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html|title=Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers|last1=Shear|first1=Michael D.|date=2017|work=The New York Times|last2=Huetteman|first2=Emmarie|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2017-10-27|archive-date=2017-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212063821/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/nov/18/blog-posting/no-3-million-undocumented-immigrants-did-not-vote-/ |title=Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year's election? |last=Graves |first=Allison |date=November 18, 2016 |website=PolitiFact |publisher=Poynter Institute |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628035511/http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/nov/18/blog-posting/no-3-million-undocumented-immigrants-did-not-vote-/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Trump repeated this debunked claim in a meeting with members of Congress in 2017,<ref name="Repeats"/> in a speech in April 2018,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-trump-revives-debunked-accusation-of-1522957270-htmlstory.html|title=Trump revives debunked accusation of massive vote fraud in California|first=David|last=Lauter|date=April 5, 2018|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 14, 2018|archive-date=April 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414133711/http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-trump-revives-debunked-accusation-of-1522957270-htmlstory.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and in a television interview in June 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-hillary-clinton-great-candidate-very-smart-still-believes-illegal-votes-cost-him-1445418|title=Trump still believes illegal votes caused his historic popular vote loss, calls Hillary Clinton a 'great candidate... very smart'|first=Gillian|last=Edevane|date=June 23, 2019|website=Newsweek|access-date=June 23, 2019|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623223149/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-hillary-clinton-great-candidate-very-smart-still-believes-illegal-votes-cost-him-1445418|url-status=live}}</ref>Return to List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote. |
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