according to the Federal Election Commission. That's just over 51% of the popular vote. Biden holds the record for most votes ever won by a U.S. presidential candidate. He received 306 electoral votes ...

In this interactive feature, explore how changes between the 2020 and 2024 elections in how – and whether – people voted ...

The popular vote on the other hand is based on the number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Why did Al Gore lose despite winning more votes? Discover the complex and controversial role of the U.S. Electoral College ...

In case you missed it, the scheme by special interest groups to replace the Electoral College with a so-called national popular vote may have just suffered a mortal blow — and it happened in a blue ...

This year's popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.

Both won the national popular vote by about 2 and 0.5 percentage points but lost the tipping-point states — Wisconsin and Florida, respectively — and, thus, the election.

Trump, the president-elect, maintains a lead of nearly 5 million votes over Vice President Kamala Harris. He's never won the popular vote before.

The president-elect’s share of the popular vote now falls in the bottom half for American presidents — far below that of Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, who won 61.1% of the popular vote in 1964 ...

The popular vote may be in play as the presidential ballots are being counted. Here's what the popular vote actually is and does.

Democratic nominee and then-Vice President Al Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election against Republican nominee George W. Bush, but lost the electoral college, which paved the way for Bush ...

Cleveland won the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes by sweeping the Southern states. Harrison won the North and Western states to pull out a 233-168 Electoral College victory.