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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.
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What president got the most number of votes but was not president?
Andrew Jackson lost the election of 1824 even though he received the largest number of popular votes and electoral votes. In the 1824 presidential election an individual needed to receive at least 131 electoral votes out of the 261 total electoral votes. Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams received 84 electoral votes, William Crawford received 41 electoral votes, and Henry Clay received 37 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Andrew Jackson 151,271 (42.9%), John Quincy Adams 113,122 (32.1%), Henry Clay 47,531 (13.5%), and William Crawford 40,856 (11.6%). Since no candidate received the required majority of 131 electoral votes, the president was elected by the U.S. House of Representatives in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution. John Quincy Adams won the election in the U.S. House of Representatives. Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election defeating John Quincy Adams.
Does your vote count?
Technically yes. The president gets elected based on the Electoral vote, not the popular vote. So even if a candidate wins the popular vote, they can still lose the Electoral vote. but that almost never happens. the electoral college was put in place by the founding fathers because they didnt want the average person(uneducated hill folk) deciding who the president would be. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes It does. When you vote the state sees the votes and th e person who got the most votes by us, Gets all the Electoral Votes for that state.
Which president had the most popular votes in history?
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.
What was an argument that wanted to secede?
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
Who elects the US president?
Its not just one person who determines the .US. President. So the PEOPLE that put the person in office is us the people of the United states of America so don't let any person the take you American rights.
How was a president and vice president chosen during the first few elections?
Whoever got the most votes was president, and 2nd place became vice president.
What strategy did john Adams use to win this important office?
When Congress elected the president and Vice President in the 1700's a vote was taken. The man who got the most votes was president and the second in votes was VP.
Who got more votes for President Obama or McCain?
Barack Obama received more votes for president. Obama received 69,456,897 votes, giving him 365 electoral votes, while John McCain received 59,934,814 votes for president, and 173 of 538 electoral votes.
Who got most votes for president?
The largest number of votes cast in a U.S. presidential election was 138,847,000 in 2016, 131,407,000 in 2008, 129,235,000 in 2012, and 122,349,000 in 2004.
Who got more votes in the election of 1824?
Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, but nobody had more than half of all electoral votes as required. When that happens, the House of Representatives elects the President. They chose John Quincy Adams.
A states presidential electors are chossen by?
The voters in the state. That's who we are actually voting for when we vote for President, since the Constitution does not allow for direct election of the President. When a candidate wins in a state, the electors who are pledged to that candidate are the ones sent to formally vote on who wins the election. In some states, the person with the most votes gets all the states electoral votes and in others the electoral votes are divided according to how many votes each candidate got. The are even variations on these two methods.This means that it is possible for one candidate to get the most overall votes in the country, but not be elected President because too many of votes he got were in states with too few electoral votes. This has happened twice in American history: 1876 when Hayes got fewer votes than Tilden, but won anyway, and in 2000 when HGore got more votes than Bush.
What are the effects of the Electoral College?
You are voting for a new president and a new one gets elected depending on who got the most votes; the one who got more won.
Why was the offices of president and vice president created?
They are called for in the US Constitution but no means of election is specified. Originally they were individual candidates for president, whoever got the most votes became president and whoever got the second most votes became vice president. This was eventually found to result in presidents and vice presidents that could not work together well. So eventually the parties started picking a president/vice president pair and they were elected together.
Why did the house of reperesentatives decide the winner in the election of 1824?
No candidate received votes for President from more than half of the appointed electors.
How were the elections of president and vice president handled prior to passing the 12 th amendment how did it change as a result of the 12th amendment?
Before the passing of the 12th amendment, the election of the President and Vice President was done by Electoral votes. The person with the most votes won the presidency and the one in second place became the Vice President.
How many votes did Calvin Coolidge get?
He got 15,723,789 popular votes (59%) in 1924 the only time he ran for President. He got 382 electoral votes and carried 35 of the 48 states.
Who has the most votes of becoming president?
none of them
