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According to the popular vote from the United States elections, Lyndon Johnson was the most popular president. He received 61.05 percent of his votes.
Jimmy Carters popular vote was 35,480,115 and that percent was 41.01%.
John B. Anderson received 6.6 percent of the popular vote in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
Washington cast its 12 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Hillary Clinton 1,742,718, Donald Trump 1,221,747 and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 160,879.
48.6%
approximately 52%
Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist candidate who ran in the election of 1912 and won 6 percent of the popular vote.
John Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote in 1980 running as an "Independent".
CLinton
Colorado cast its 9 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Hillary Clinton 1,338,870, Donald Trump 1,202,484 and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 144,121.
Ralph Nader , Green Party candidate, got 2.75% of the popular vote in 2000.
George W. Bush was the only president elected to two terms with less than 50 percent of the popular vote.