Popular vote (representative democracy)

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In representative democracy, the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes received by a party, candidate or group of candidates, as opposed to the number of seats they win in the representative assembly or, as in the United States, in the Electoral College in a presidential election. There have been four presidential elections (and will apparently occur again following the recent 2016 presidential election) in which the person who became president received fewer popular votes than their opponent.^[1]

United States presidential elections

Elections by year	1788–89 1792 1796 1800 1804 1808 1812 1816 1820 1824 1828 1832 1836 1840 1844 1848 1852 1856 1860 1864 1868 1872 1876 1880 1884 1888 1892 1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

Elections by state	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington, D.C. West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Primaries and caucuses	Iowa caucuses New Hampshire primary South Carolina primary Super Tuesday

Nominating conventions	Brokered convention Convention bounce Superdelegate

Electoral College and Popular vote	Elections in which the winner lost the popular vote Electoral College margins Electoral College results by state Electoral vote changes between elections Electoral vote recipients Faithless elector Popular vote margins Summary Unpledged elector Voter turnout

Related topics	Campaign slogans Historical election polling Election Day Major party tickets Presidential debates October surprise Red states and blue states Swing state Election recount

House elections Senate elections Gubernatorial elections

References

↑ Evon, Dan. "Who Won the Popular Vote?". snopes. Retrieved 2016-11-14.

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