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In the 1984 election Ronal Regan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1936 election Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.49%) of the 531 electoral votes. In the 1972 election Richard Nixon received 520 (96.65%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1820 election James Monroe was unopposed and received 231 (99.57%) of the 232 electoral votes. George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes and was unanimously elected President in 1789 and 1792. The largest percentage of popular votes were won by Lyndon Johnson 61.05% in 1964, Franklin Roosevelt 60.80% in 1936, Richard Nixon 60.67% in 1972, and Warren Harding 60.32% in 1920.
With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, President Obama won Maryland's 10 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election. He won 61.7 percent of the votes over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Pac Man Jones wore # 21 in 2008.
On Jeopardy the 16th of October 2008 the category for the final question was Presidential Election History. The answer was DUE TO THE LARGE NUMBERS OF MEN AWAY FROM HOME, IT WAS THE FIRST YEAR A MAJORITY OF STATES COUNTED ABSENTEE VOTES. The question What is 1864? For your information all contestants were wrong.
Barack Obama was the first African American to receive the Democratic presidential nomination, in 2008. He won the election by about 10 million votes.
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2000 Census, there were 7 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana in 2008. Therefore, Louisiana had 9 electoral votes in 2008.
Missouri had 11 electoral votes in 2008.
Maryland continues to have 10 electoral votes, which is what it had in the 2008 presidential election and again in 2012.
The last time the number of California's electoral votes changed was between 2000 and 2004.
Barack Obama won electoral votes in 2008
The number of states Obama won in the general presidential election of 2008 is 28.
Illinois was allowed to cast 21 electoral votes in 2008.
North Carolina had 15 electoral votes in 2008.
Arkansas had 6 electoral votes in 2008. These votes went to John McCain, Republican.
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
Utah had 5 electoral votes for their 952,370 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election. These 5 electoral votes were cast for John McCain.Utah will increase to 6 electoral votes in the 2012 election.
The number of electoral votes for Ohio was reduced based on population changes revealed by the 2010 census. The population of Ohio did not increase as much as the population of the states that gained or keep the same number of electoral votes .