Four Presidents won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. They were Andrew Jackson, Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland and Al Gore.
Electoral vote! Evidently the popular vote doesn't count since Gore won the popular vote.
This has happened three times. In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but Rutherford Hayes won the electoral majority by one vote. In 1888 Grover Cleveland lost in electoral vote to Benjamin Harrison even though he carred the popular vote. In 2000, Al Gore lost to George W. Bush but won the popular vote. ( In 1824, Andrew Jackson won both the popular vote and the electoral vote, but did not get the required majority of electoral vote and so in accordance with the law, the House of Representatives chose the president and they chose John Quincy Adams. )
Four presidents won the electoral vote while losing the popular vote: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush.
Al Gore
George W. Bush won in 2000 and lost the popular vote. He was re-elected in 2004 but when he was re-elected he won the popular votes as well as the electoral vote. (The other three Presidents who lost the popular vote, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison , were not re-elected .)
No, not exactly.The only way a President could lose the electoral vote would be if nobody got a majority and so the House of Representatives chose him over the popular vote winner. This could possibly happen but has not yet happened. Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in 1824 but was not made president by the House. He did become a president by winning the electoral vote in 1828.Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote in 1888, He was president because he won the electoral vote in 1884 and again in 1892. He was not elected in 1888.Samuel Tilden in 1876 and Al Gore in 2000 won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote but neither was ever President.
There are actually four American Presidents to have won the electoral college votes, but lost the popular vote. They are John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush.
Al Gore
Barack Obama won the popular vote and the electoral vote in the 2012 presidential election. In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 65,446,032 and Romney 60,589,084.
No. Although he lost the popular vote, he won in the electoral vote. He was elected by the electoral college.
Only three did that- Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush. John Kennedy may have lost the popular vote- the vote was very close and there was strong suspicion of fraud, especially in Chicago, but the official count was in his favor. John Q. Adams won the presidency after losing both the popular vote and the electoral vote.