Popular votes
Bell got 39 electoral votes and 590,901 popular votes. Douglas got 12 electoral votes and 1,004,823 popular votes.
majority on electoral votes
Grant won 3,013,421 popular votes in 1868 which led to 214 electoral votes and3,598,235 popular votes (286 electoral votes) in 1872.
Yes. You cannot win all electoral votes without having the popular vote.
Grant won 3,013,421 popular votes in 1868 which led to 214 electoral votes and3,598,235 popular votes (286 electoral votes) in 1872.
Pennsylvania casts its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the popular election in Pennsylvania gets all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
Andrew Jackson was the leader in electoral votes and in popular votes in 1824 but he did not get the required majority of electoral votes and so the House decided the election as the constitution requires.
president Bush
No city in Pennsylvania gets electoral votes. Based on the 2010 Census, Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes. Pennsylvania casts all of its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the popular election in Pennsylvania gets all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
Candidates need a majority of electoral votes to be elected. Because most states* award all of their electoral votes to the top candidate in that state, candidates do not need to win the national popular vote to win a majority of electoral votes. The result is that winning a few large population states (called swing states), even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. In 1876, 1888, and 2000, the winning candidate did not get the most popular votes nationwide.
by popular and electoral college votes.