Plurality
plurality
A plurality election means that the person who wins the largest amount of votes wins the election.
He won the largest share of electoral college votes.
In the Election of 2012, the state with the largest number of electoral college votes will be California, with 55 electoral votes.
In the 1984 election Ronal Regan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1936 election Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.49%) of the 531 electoral votes. In the 1972 election Richard Nixon received 520 (96.65%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1820 election James Monroe was unopposed and received 231 (99.57%) of the 232 electoral votes. George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes and was unanimously elected President in 1789 and 1792. The largest percentage of popular votes 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.
Andrew Jackson
The states with the largest number of electoral votes in 1828 were Pennsylvania 28, Virginia 24.and New York 20.
The largest number of votes cast in a U.S. presidential election was 138,847,000 in 2016, 131,407,000 in 2008, 129,235,000 in 2012, and 122,349,000 in 2004.
If no one votes in an election, there will be no winner since there are no votes to determine a victor. Elections usually require participation and votes to determine the outcome.
In the election of 1896, McKinley had 271 electoral votes. In the election of 1900, he had 292 votes.
The ratio of yes votes to no votes in an election was to . How many yes votes were cast if there were a total of votes cast?
Andrew Jackson won in both of these counts, However, he only received a plurality and not the required majority of electoral votes. so the election went to the House for resolution and he lost there for a variety of reasons., to John Quincy Adams.