Presidential Election Vote Results History. The candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular voteHowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president. In a United States presidential election the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington DC.
Presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy and the 1868 election when the state was undergoing Reconstruction. In a United States presidential election the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington DC. For the original method of electing the president and the vice president elections of 1789 1792 1796 and 1800 see Article II Section 1 of the Constitution.
Includes all candidates their parties number of electoral and popular votes.
As set forth in Article Two each state is allocated a number of. Presidential Elections 1789-2020 Election results for every election from 1789 to the present. The candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular voteHowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president. As set forth in Article Two each state is allocated a number of.