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No. Popular vote is just to see what the people like. It's the electoral votes that count.
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∙ 11y agoThe US president was never elected by popular vote. The popular votes choose the electors who actually elect the President. Please refer to the related question for more details.
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What is the 17th Amendment called?
Senators Elected by Popular Vote.
How many times in the past has Hillary Clinton been elected president and not won the popular vote?
Hillary Clinton has never been elected president. She apparently won the popular vote in the recent 2016 presidential election.
How does the electoral college impact elections?
The electoral college elects the president and vice-president of the US. The electors are elected by popular vote and declare in advance how they will vote if they are elected, so the people choose electors who will vote the way they would vote if they were electors.
Who was the first president to be elected by a popular vote of the people?
George Washington
How many us presidents were elected by electoral votes?
All US Presidents have been elected by electoral votes. The President of the United States is not elected directly by the citizens but through the Electoral College system, where electors from each state vote for the President based on the popular vote results in their respective states.
How are presidents elected in Mexico?
Direct popular vote.
When were presidents elected by both popular citizen vote and the electoral college?
Presidents were never elected by popular vote. They have always be elected by the electors from each state who cast their electoral votes. What has changed is the way that the electors are selected. Nowadays they are chosen by popular vote, but at first the state legislatures would choose them.
How many presidents have been elected unanimously?
No US president was elected unanimously by popular vote. The only president elected unanimously by the electoral college was George Washington (There was no popular vote in this election).
What two presidents won the popular vote but were not elected?
Andrew Jackson was the only man who won the popular vote without being elected and later was elected president. Samuel Tilden and Al Gore won the popular vote but never became president.
Does the president win by electoral college or the popular vote?
Presidents are elected by electoral votes.
Has a reelected president even lost the popular vote?
George W. Bush won in 2000 and lost the popular vote. He was re-elected in 2004 but when he was re-elected he won the popular votes as well as the electoral vote. (The other three Presidents who lost the popular vote, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison , were not re-elected .)
How does Mexico pick their presidents do they let the people decide?
Yes, the Mexican president is elected by direct popular vote.
What state executive offices are elected by popular vote?
All state officials are elected by popular vote.
How might a presidential election winner lose the popular vote?
Presidents of the US are elected by the electoral college, they are not elected directly by the public. The public (in effect) elects the electors who form the electoral college. It has happened on several occasions that the winner of the popular vote was not the winner in the electoral college.
Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by?
Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by the electoral college. A president candidate can win the popular vote and still not win if he doesn't win the electoral college.
What was the constitutional institution for choosing presidents that came under severe criticism after the 2000 popular vote winner failed to win the office?
The electoral college elects the president, not the direct popular vote. There is a reason for this, but Gore supporters were disappointed when their man was not elected president after carrying the popular vote.
How is the head of government decided in Mexico?
He/she is elected by direct popular vote. Mexican presidents have a 6-year term and are forbidden to second, consecutive terms.
