The report found the 2024 presidential election saw a drop in Election Day voting and a corresponding increase in early, ...

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.

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.

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

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.

The national popular vote is an interesting side note, but doesn’t mean much, as Republicans will tell you this year. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback. Subscribe Sign in ...

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Anthony Salvanto. More Americans support the popular vote over the Electoral College as the method for electing U.S. presidents ...

In 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote by about 550,000 votes but Mr. Bush won the Electoral College, such a split hadn’t happened in more than a century.

This can lead to off-kilter election results — in 2000, for example, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote by a few hundred thousand votes, but lost the presidency by five electoral votes.