Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist candidate who ran in the election of 1912 and won 6 percent of the popular vote.
Eugene V. Debs, from Indiana, was the Socialist candidate in 1912. He won 5.99 % of the popular vote.
In the 1928 US presidential election, Norman Thomas was nominated as the Socialist Party presidential candidate and Verne L. Reynolds was nominated as the Socialist Labor candidate. The main presidential candidates were Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Al Smith.
Eugene V. Debs was the candidate in the presidential election of 1912 who ran mostly to widen the audience for Socialist ideas.
John B. Anderson received 6.6 percent of the popular vote in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
Ralph Nader , Green Party candidate, got 2.75% of the popular vote in 2000.
No. In fact the Socialist candidate got only 139,000 out of 48.7 million votes nationwide which was 0.29% of the popular vote. He did best in Wisconsin, with 0.98% of the popular vote. Harry Truman(D) beat Thomas Dewey (R) to win.
The state that had the closest popular vote percent difference in the 2008 election was Missouri, with a difference of only 0.14%. Democratic candidate Barack Obama won with 49.43% of the vote, while Republican candidate John McCain received 49.29%.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election defeating Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 472 electoral votes and Herbert Hoover received 59 electoral votes. 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.
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
The last time a Republican candidate won the popular vote in a presidential election was in 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected for a second term.