George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%).
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 and Bush 50,456,062.
0 percent. He ran in 2000 for president not in 2004.
Less than a thousand votes.
50,996,064 votes
He received: 50,456,002 popular votes.
This is true. On three occasions in US history, the new president did not receive a majority of the popular votes, namely John Q. Adams, Hayes and George W. Bush in 2000.
Al Gore.
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes. Florida's electoral votes ended up determining who was president in 2000. Florida cast its 25 electoral votes for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. The 2000 presidential election popular vote totals in Florida were George W. Bush 2,912,790 and Al Gore 2,912,253.
Al Gore did not run for President in 1996. That was Bill Clinton, Al Gore was Clinton's Vice President. That ticket (democratic ticket with Clinton & Gore) received 47,402,357 (49.24%) popular votes in 1996. 379 Electoral College votes. Al Gore along with Joe Lieberman as his running mate ran for President in 2000 those results were as follows: Al Gore received 50,999,897 (48.38%) Popular votes in 2000. 266 Electoral College votes George W. Bush (Dick Cheney V.P.) received 50,456,002 (47.87%) Popular votes in 2000. 271 Electoral College votes
The election of the president is determined by a popular vote and by the electoral college. The presidential candidate needs a majority of electoral votes to win, and the electoral votes usually coincide with the popular vote (with the exception of the election of George W Bush in 2000)
Bush won the electoral vote despite losing the national popular vote. George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes.
In the 2000 presidential election, the Green Party candidate (Ralph Nader) did not win any electoral votes. He did, however, win over 2.8 million popular votes. Unfortunately for the Green Party, this was only 2.7% of the popular vote, and would not qualify the party to receive matching federal campaign funds in the next presidential election.
Bush won the electoral vote despite losing the national popular vote. George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes.
Al Gore
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 and Bush 50,456,062. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes.
The U.S. President is never elected by popular vote. In fact, there have been four Presidential elections in U.S. history in which the winner of the election was not the candidate who received the most popular votes (in 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000).