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per wikipedia... The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican candidate George W. Bush, then governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989-1993). Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Bush narrowly won the November 7 election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 (with one faithless elector abstaining in the official tally). The election featured a controversy over who won Florida's 25 electoral votes (and thus the presidency), the recount process in that state, and the unusual event that the losing candidate had received 543,816 more popular votes than the winner.
That was the third U.S. presidential election in which the popular votes from all of the states when added together indicated that the winner of the election was not the candidate preferred by a plurality of those who voted nationwide. The most controversial by far was the 1876 election. One of the things that made 1876 unique is the fact that the "loser", Gov. Samuel Tilden of NY, was not only the candidate preferred by most of the public as in the other two cases but was the preference of the majority of the public (more than 50% of the voting public supported Tilden).
The other time when the election winner was not the preferred candidate was in 1888. Grover Cleveland was the Democratic nominee in three elections, 1884, 1888 and 1892. The nationwide popular vote totals were on his side all three times (making him the only person beside FDR to have more than two popular vote totals in his favor). However, Benjamin Harrison won the 1888 election. In 1892 Grover Cleveland became the 4th person to win a US presidential election after losing the previous one (the others were Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison).
Even though the candidate with the most electoral votes was the candidate with the most popular votes in 94% of the 48 elections since we started keeping track of popular votes, the two percentages are rarely similar. That is due to the practice of about every state of giving 100% of its electoral votes to the one party ticket with the plurality of statewide popular votes without regard to the relative popularity of each ticket.
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A presidential election is won by the candidate who?
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.
Why was their a dispute over the elections of 1824?
No candidate received a majority of the electoral votes.
A presidential election is won by candidates who?
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.
Do you have to have a majority of votes to win a federal election?
In a federal election in the United States, a candidate does not need to receive a majority of the popular votes to win. For example, in the Electoral College system used for presidential elections, a candidate only needs to secure a majority of electoral votes (at least 270 out of 538) to win. This means that a candidate can win the presidency by obtaining fewer than 50% of the popular vote, as seen in past elections.
Can a presidential candidate win an election without the majority of the electoral college vote?
Yes
What causes the elections to be thrown into the house?
This event occurs if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral vote.
Who is responsible for the elections of the president?
The election of the president is determined by a popular vote and by the electoral college. The presidential candidate needs a majority of electoral votes to win, and the electoral votes usually coincide with the popular vote (with the exception of the election of George W Bush in 2000)
What happens if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes in the presidential election?
If no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes in the presidential election, the decision is then made by the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote to determine the next president.
What happens if no presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes in the United States election?
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes in the United States election, the decision goes to the House of Representatives, where they will vote to choose the next president from the top three candidates with the most electoral votes.
What is the US Presidential voting system called?
The Electoral college is the Presidential voting system. The electoral college gives each state a certain amount of electoral votes. If a presidential candidate wins the majority of the citizens votes, he will also get the electoral vote.
When has the electoral college decided a presidential election?
The electoral college has decided the outcome of several presidential elections in US history. Some notable examples include the elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. In these cases, the candidate who won the majority of the electoral college votes became the president, despite not winning the popular vote.
If a presidential candidate loses the electoral college election can he still win by receiving a majority of popular votes?
No.
