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Who were the four presidents in which the winner received fewer popular votes than his opponent?
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The three U.S. Presidents elected by the electoral college who received fewer popular votes than their main opponents are Rutherford B. Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888) and George W. Bush (2000).
The popular vote is not required to become president. The purpose of the popular vote is to determine within each state which candidate's supporters will be appointed by the state as electors. It is the 538 appointed electors who then in mid-December elect the U.S. President and Vice-President.
The primary reason why this happens occasionally is that there are only two states that have a system to potentially divide all but two of the state's electoral votes based on the popular vote within each congressional district. Every other state and D.C. casts 100% of their votes for the winner of the popular vote in that state. It is mathematically possible to win the election with the votes of only eleven states, California, Texas, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey.
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∙ 12y agoJohn Quincy Adams (1824, Second to Andrew Jackson)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1876, Second to Samuel Tilden)
Benjamin Harrison (1888, Second to Grover Cleveland)
George Walker Bush (2000, Second to Albert Gore, Jr.)
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