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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden.. In 1888, Benjamin Harrison ...

Colorado is the latest to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement that calls for states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.

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.

I would rather have a popular election, but it’s a totally different campaign,” Trump said. “It’s as though you’re running — if you’re a runner, you’re practicing for the 100-yard ...