Mind-Blowing Presidential Election Facts!

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Interesting Facts About the Presidential Election
interesting facts we learned about the presidential election.
A candidate has won the popular vote but lost the election four times in our nation’s history:
• 1824 – Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but received less than 50 percent of the electoral votes. John Quincy Adams won the presidency.
• 1876 – Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but Rutherford B. Hayes received 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.
• 1888 – Grover Cleveland won the popular vote, but received 168 electoral votes to Benjamin Harris’ 233.
• 2000 – Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush. In one of the most contested elections in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount of ballots and gave Bush the state’s 25 electoral votes, giving him a total 271 compared to Gore’s 255.
Grover Cleveland was elected president in 1884, lost his re-election campaign in 1888, and won the presidency for a second time in 1892.

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