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George W. Bush won the Election of 2000 with the second-highest number of national popular votes. Of the three times that happened in U.S. history, that was the only time it happened during the 20th century.
OK, literally that happened four times, because in 1824 John Quincy Adams, who won the election, had the second-highest popular vote total from all the states in which the voters chose the electors, but he also had the second-highest electoral vote total (nobody received the minimum number of votes so the House of Representatives elected the President as prescribed in the U. S. Constitution).
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Who was the last President to lose the popular vote and win an election?
barak obama was
How can a presidential candidate can lose the overall popular vote and still become president?
A Presidential candidate can lose the overall popular vote and still become President because the US President is NOT elected by the popular vote. The votes cast by the Electoral College elect the President. This type of thing has happened several times before; this is one reason why Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms.
How do electoral votes determined the president?
The candidate who receives the most electoral votes wins the presidency. It is possible to lose the popular vote but win the electoral vote to be elected president.
Who was the last Democrat to win two terms as President and win the popular vote at least once?
The last Democrat to win two terms as President and win the popular vote at least once was Barack Obama. He won the popular vote in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.
Was the last person to lose the election in the Electoral College despite winning most of the popular vote?
Al Gore
Who won the popular vote for president in 2008 in Idaho?
The last three Democrats to take Idaho were FDR, Truman and LBJ. John McCain won the popular vote in 2008.
Is the president elected directly by popular vote?
No. The popular vote for each state determines the ELECTORAL COLLEGE votes, which add up to declare the winner. In this way, if a candidate wins the top states, but not the popular vote, he/she will still become president.
Which amendment makes it possible that a presidential candidate can lose the popular vote but still win the electoral vote?
This phenomenon is not due to any amendment. Amendment 12 changed the procedure for electing the President, but did not actually change the indirect way the President is elected. Popular vote is not mentioned in the Constitution and does not elect directly elect the President and such is the plan in the body of the Constitution.
Last President prior to Barack Obama to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote?
Nixon
Can an inmate vote for president?
No an inmate cannot vote for president, the instant someone serves jail time they automatically lose their right to vote.
Was there a president who won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote?
No, not exactly.The only way a President could lose the electoral vote would be if nobody got a majority and so the House of Representatives chose him over the popular vote winner. This could possibly happen but has not yet happened. Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in 1824 but was not made president by the House. He did become a president by winning the electoral vote in 1828.Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote in 1888, He was president because he won the electoral vote in 1884 and again in 1892. He was not elected in 1888.Samuel Tilden in 1876 and Al Gore in 2000 won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote but neither was ever President.
Who was the last president to win the Elector vote but not the popular vote?
George Bush won the electoral vote with 271 to Al Gore's 266. Gore, however, won the popular vote with 50,999,897 votes while Bush only had 50,456,002.
