Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election defeating incumbent President Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 472 electoral votes (89%) and Herbert Hoover received 59 electoral votes (11%). The popular vote totals were Roosevelt 22,829,501 and Hoover 15,760,684. Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas received 884,781 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election defeating Barry Goldwater. In the 1964 presidential election the popular vote totals were Johnson 43,129,566 and Goldwater 27,178,188. The largest percentage of popular votes in a presidential election were won by Lyndon Johnson 61.05% in 1964, Franklin Roosevelt 60.80% in 1936, Richard Nixon 60.67% in 1972, and Warren Harding 60.32% in 1920.
counting the electoral votes that were cast in the presidential election
Donald Trump won Iowa's 6 electoral votes in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Donald Trump 800,983 and Hillary Clinton 653,669.
The people do not elect the President. When you vote for president, you are really voting for members of the electoral college. The electoral college will then choose the president. There are only 538 votes that count in a presidential election.
Donald Trump won Alabama's 9 electoral votes in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Donald Trump 1,318,255 and Hillary Clinton 729,547.
Somebody's messing with you. According to United States Code, Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 15, the votes are counted by Congress on the 6th of January following the election.
For the 2008 Presidential Election, according to the Federal Election Commission: 69,456,897 (52.9%) for Obama, 59,934,814 (45.7%) for McCain, and 1,865,617 (1.4%) for other candidates.
You mean the US presidential election on Nov 4? If we could tell that, we'd probably rather punt for the lottery numbers! However, if you mean who is winning in the polls as we count down to the election on Nov 4, then go here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Al Gore, who was Bill Clinton's Vice-President, narrowly lost the electoral vote count, and thereby the election, to George W. Bush, governor of Texas and son of President George H. Bush.Suits challenging the outcome were controversially decided by the US Supreme Court, which ruled in Bush v. Gore that planned recounts in the state of Florida could not be conducted, due to the lack of statewide standards for such recounting.
The 2000 presidential election finally ended with the exact vote count in the state of Florida. The final margin of victory was extremely close, with George W. Bush winning the state by just 537 votes. This slim margin ultimately decided the outcome of the entire election.
No US president qualifies for this statement, unless you count Barack Obama defeating himself. George Walker Bush was the president before Barack Obama. John McCain, senator from Arizona was defeated by Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
Electoral votes are what count when electing a President into office in the U.S.A..