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How was the 2000 US presidential election like the elections of 1876 and 1888?
George W. Bush won the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote. The elections of Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison displayed the same disparity.
Has a president ever won the popular vote and lost the election?
In addition to presidential candidates who won the popular vote but lost the election (Al Gore in 2000 and Samuel Tilden in 1876 come to mind), there have been two people for which the statement as written is literally true:Andrew Jackson won a plurality (not a majority, but more votes than any other candidate) of both the popular and electoral vote in the presidential election of 1824. However, since there were four candidates in the race that year and none of them had a majority, the decision went to the House of Representatives, who chose John Quincy Adams instead. Jackson then went on to later became president in the election of 1828, with a clear majority of both the popular and electoral vote, so for him the statement is true in retrospect, but not at the time of the first election.Grover Cleveland also won a plurality of the popular vote in 1888 after his first term as president, though in his case he lost the electoral vote to Benjamin Harrison. He then ran again in 1892 and again won a plurality of the popular vote, but this time garnered a clear majority of the electoral vote and became president for a second time. He's the only one for whom the statement was true at the time of the election itself.
How many times has a person been elected president and not received the majority of the popular vote?
Kevin Rudd It has happened 3 times: 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes won the electoral vote with 185/369 votes but lost the popular vote to Samuel Tilden. 1888: Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote with 233/401 but lost the popular vote to Grover Cleveland. 2000: George W. Bush won the electoral vote with 270/538 but lost the popular vote to Al Gore by a very small margin.
How many presidents have been elected whose opponent received more popular votes?
There have only been three (or possibly four) such presidents. The certain ones are Rutherford B Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888) and George W. Bush (2000). The probable case is John Quincy Adams (1824), who was behind Andrew Jackson in the popular vote, but only in those states which used the popular vote to determine presidential electors. At that time several states, including important ones such as New York, did not do so, but allowed the Legislature to choose Electors. There is no way to tell how a nationwide popular vote would have gone.
What candidates ran for president and lost then ran again and won?
One example of a candidate who fits this description is Richard Nixon. He first ran for president in 1960 against John F. Kennedy and lost, then ran again in 1968 and won the election. Nixon served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
