All but which of these candidates once lost a race for president despite winning the popular vote?

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All but which of these candidates once lost a race for president despite winning the popular vote?- While the popular vote elects members of Congress, governors, and state legislators, it does not determine the winner of the presidency. The winner of the presidency is determined by the Electoral College. There have been five times in U.S. history that a presidential candidate has won the popular vote but lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); and Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).

  1. Al Gore
  2. Aaron Burr
  3. Hillary Clinton
  4. Andrew Jackson
the correct answer is Aaron Burr

All but which of these candidates once lost a race for president despite winning the popular vote?

Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes’ 165, with 20 votes unresolved.

In 2016, Donald Trump became President even though Hillary Clinton won the national popular vote by over 2,800,000 votes.  Trump won because he carried Michigan by about 11,000 votes, Wisconsin by about 23,000 votes, and Pennsylvania by about 44,000 votes.  Each of these 78,000 votes was 36 times more important than the 2,868,518 votes cast in other states.

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