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Which president got elected with less than 50 percent of popular vote?
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∙ 11y ago
Rutherford B. Hayes-1876, Benjamin Harrison-1888, and George W. Bush-2000 were elected by the electoral college but lost in popular vote.
John Quincy Adams in 1824 was second both popular votes and electoral votes but was elected by the House of Representatives because no one got a majority of the electoral votes.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoJohn Quincy Adams finished second to Andrew Jackson in electoral votes in 1824 but nobody got a majority, so as specified by the Constitution, the House of Representatives decided the election and chose Adams
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∙ 11y agoJohn Quincy Adams in 1824
James K. Polk in 1844
Zachary Taylor in 1848
James Buchanan in 1856
Abraham Lincoln in 1860
Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876
James A. Garfield in 1880
Grover Cleveland in 1884
Benjamin Harrison in 1888
Grover Cleveland in 1892
Woodrow Wilson in 1912
Woodrow Wilson in 1916
Harry S Truman in 1948
John F. Kennedy in 1960
Richard Nixon in 1968
Bill Clinton in 1992
Bill Clinton in 1996
George W. Bush in 2000
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∙ 15y agoWiki User
∙ 11y agoBill Clinton for one . In 1992 he won with 43%. George W. Bush won with 47.9% in 2000.
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Only president to be elected twice without 50 percent of the popular vote?
George W. Bush was the only president elected to two terms with less than 50 percent of the popular vote.
What type of president gets less than 50 percent of the popular vote?
minority :) Crossword Puzzle right me too
Can a Vice president who served as president due to the president dying be reelected as president?
Yes, if they moved up from vice-president to president with less than two years to go in the term. Otherwise, they can not be re-elected if they are elected president once.
How much did Chester Arthur win in popular votes?
Arthur never ran for president. He ran for vice-president with Garfield heading the ticket. They won the popular vote by a narrow margin of less than 10,000 votes or about 1/10 of one-percent .
If a Vice-President succeeds to the Presidency and serves less than two years of the former President's term what can they do?
They can be elected President two more terms.
What is a minority president?
A minority president is a president that gets elected with less than 50% of the popular vote. Abe Lincoln was a minority president, for example.
Who was the first Catholic to be elected President and was assassinated after less than three years in office?
John F. Kennedy
Was Gerald R Ford re-elected 12 times never getting less than 60 percent?
Yes!
How many times an American president elected?
An American president can be elected a maximum of two times. The Twenty-Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1951, limits a president to serving two terms in office. However, if a vice president assumes the presidency due to the death or resignation of the incumbent president and serves less than two years of the term, they can still be elected to two full terms.
Can the president may be re-elected three times?
The President may only be re-elected one time, to serve two consecutive terms. ------------ Well, technically, a person may serve as many as 10 years as President. This can be accomplished if the vice president must finish the term of another president and the time remaining is equal to but less than 2 more years. At that point the sitting president can be elected two more times. Could you claim they were re-elected twice? That's up to the observer.
What is the limits for the executive branch?
If elected, a president can serve for two consecutive terms of four years each. If the president resigns or dies, and the vice president becomes president, he can serve out the remaining term of the former president. If the remaining portion of the term is less than two years, the new president can then run for and be elected to two consecutive terms of four years each. Short version- not more than 10 years with two years as a replacement for the president and eight years as an elected official.
Name of president who wins Less then half popular votes?
George W Bush
