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.
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He won the electoral vote.
This has happened three times. In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but Rutherford Hayes won the electoral majority by one vote. In 1888 Grover Cleveland lost in electoral vote to Benjamin Harrison even though he carred the popular vote. In 2000, Al Gore lost to George W. Bush but won the popular vote. ( In 1824, Andrew Jackson won both the popular vote and the electoral vote, but did not get the required majority of electoral vote and so in accordance with the law, the House of Representatives chose the president and they chose John Quincy Adams. )
Bush won the electoral vote despite losing the national popular vote. George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes.
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.
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore won the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency because George W. Bush won the electoral vote.
He won the electoral vote.
Four Presidents won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. They were Andrew Jackson, Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland and Al Gore.
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes.
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.
He's considered one of the most infuential VPs ever, and he won the popular vote in 2000 but not the Electoral College vote.