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Obviously people who lose the election do not become President at that time. Andrew Jackson led in the popular vote in 1824 but lost, However he won in 1828 and again in 1832. Grover Cleveland , the incumbent President, won the popular vote in 1888 but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison. He won again in 1892 and returned to office.
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JudyAndrew Jackson (1824) Samuel Tilden (1876), Grover Cleveland (1888) and Al Gore (2000) are the presidential candidates who led in popular vote but lost the election.
(More detail)Andrew Jackson 1824;Jackson received the most popular votes but not a majority. Also note that four states had no popular ballot. Jackson also received the most electoral votes. Since there was no majority, the election was decided by the House of Representatives who chose John Q. Adams. The Election of 1824 is known as the "Corrupt Bargain". There is a belief that Adams and current Speaker of the House at that time, Henry Clay, conspired to give the election to Adams. Future actions laid credence to that belief because after the Adams assumed the presidency, Henry Clay became Adam's Secretary of State. Samuel Tilden 1876;Won the popular vote by about 250,000 votes but lost in the Electoral College. Election was decided in the House of Representatives due to 4 state's Electoral College votes being contested (Florida, Oregon, Louisiana, and South Carolina). The election was officially won by Rutherford B. Hayes. Grover Cleveland 1888;Voter turnout was 79.3% because of a large interest on the issue of tariffs with Cleveland promising to lower it and Harrison saying America need a strong protectionist tariff to keep the country vital. The result was nearly eleven million votes were cast and although Harrison received 90,596 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, Harrison carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. It is widely believed that the Tammany Hall machine worked to insure that Cleveland would not carry his home state of New York depriving him of the 36 electoral votes need to win the presidency. Interesting fact; Grover Cleveland is the only president to return to office in 1893 and to carry two presidential numbers as the 22nd and the 24th President Al Gore 2000;Won the popular vote by 543,895 votes but lost due to the Florida recount of the ballots being halted. George W. Bush won Florida by just 537 votes and a recount was automatically started because of Florida's Election law. The Bush v. Gore decision from the Supreme Court ruled that the method that Florida's recount was being handled (which was not consistent in each county) was unconstitutional and that no constitutionally valid recount could be completed by the December 12, 2000 deadline, effectively ending
None. You can't be President without winning the Electoral vote. The other way around is possible - lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College. It has been done at least twice: Rutherford B Hayes in 1876, and George W Bush in 2000.
As a side note, the election of 1800 was unusual. At the time, the method for picking the President and Vice President was that the person who got the most Electoral votes was President, and second place got to be Vice President. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr ran on the same ticket (this was the first election where parties and tickets occurred), and, in the Electoral vote, both tied, since voting didn't specify which person you were voting for which office. The contest ended up in the House of Representatives, where, after 34 tied ballots, finally Jefferson was chosen. The result of this debacle was the passage of the 12th Amendment, specifying that each Elector should vote for one person for President, and another for Vice President.
Andrew Jackson in 1824 and Grover Cleveland in 1888 received the most popular votes and lost in those years, but won in other elections- Jackson in 1828 and 1832 and Cleveland in 1884 and 1892.
(Sam Tilden in 1876 and Al Gore in 2000 won the popular vote but never won the presidency.)
Of the elections in which the public's preference was recorded, the following U. S. Presidential Candidates were the choice of a majority of the voting public (who do not elect the president or the vice president) but did not win the election:
- Andrew Jackson in 1824
- Samuel Tilden in 1876
- Grover Cleveland in 1888
- Al Gore in 2000
Andrew Jackson did have a simple majority of the electoral votes in 1824, but he failed to secure the required absolute majority of the votes, which results in the House of Representatives electing the President (they picked John Quincy Adams, who lost to Jackson in 1828).
Samuel Tilden was the only person who ever lost a U. S. Presidential election with more than 50% of the popular vote.
Grover Cleveland had a majority of the popular vote in three consecutive elections: 1884, 1888 and 1892. In 1892, he beat the opponent who beat him in 1888 (Benjamin Harrison).
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In 1876 and 1888 presidential candidates won the popular vote?
But still lost the election. Your welcome.
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.
What events occurred during the 2000 presidential election?
The winner of the popular vote lost the election. The most unusual aspect was the involvement of the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court in the adjudication of irregular votes that could have changed the result of the election.
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.
What was the result of the presidential election of 1824?
In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President. There were four candidates that received a substantial number of electoral votes, so that no one candidate received a majority. Therefore, in accordance with the US Constitution, the House of Representatives chose the president. Jackson got the most electoral votes and also won in popular votes but with some political maneuvering mostly by Henry Clay, Adams prevailed. Adams made Clay his Secretary of State and Jackson people screamed ,"Foul Play!", but it was all legal.
