James Monroe received every electoral vote but one
In the 1896 presidential election California electors split their vote giving 8 electoral votes to McKinley and 1 to Bryan. Kentucky electors split their vote giving 12 electoral votes to McKinley and 1 to Bryan.
Kentucky had eight electoral votes in the 2008 Presidential Election. It awarded them to John McCain who received 1,048,462 votes to Barack Obama's 751,985 votes.
Mitt Romney received 47.2% of the popular vote; Barack Obama received 51%.
Hillary Clinton received 0 of 8 electoral votes, receiving 628,854 votes to Donald Trump's 1,202,971 votes, losing Kentucky.
As of 2017, the last time we use the electoral vote was in 2016. Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election defeating Hillary Clinton. In the 2016 presidential election Donald Trump received 304 electoral votes and Hillary Clinton received 227 electoral votes.
It is not figured on percentage of votes, but who reaches 270 electoral votes first.
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president-elect is what you would call such a person, assuming they received a majority of the electoral vote. If nobody has an majority, I can not think of any special name for the person who received the plurality.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. John Bell received electoral votes from Virginia (15), Kentucky (12), and Tennessee (12).
the popular vote is by everybody. the electoral vote is by electoral colleges, which not everyone is in
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 and Bush 50,456,062.