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Which president garnered the highest percentage of popular votes in a single election?
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∙ 13y ago
They did not keep track of popular vote when George Washington was elected with all the electoral vote both time he ran. In 1936 Roosevelt got 62% of the popular vote . Johnson did almost as well in 1968.
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