which minor party gained the most electoral votes in a presidential election?
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Most Successful Third Party US Presidential Candidates Most Successful Third Party US Presidential Candidates. Though the US is said to be a two-party system, these 3rd Party candidates have ruffled feathers and earned votes. Under the banner of Bull Moose New Nationalism, former President Teddy Roosevelt grabbed 88 Electoral votes for the Progressive Party.
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APUSH: Post Revolution - War of 1812 The first two political parties, the Democratic-Republicans (also referred to simply as the Republicans, though they have no connection to the modern Republican party) and the … Federalists, emerged in the Election of 1796, the first contested US presidential election.
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Ross Perot Unlike Perot, however, some other third party candidates since Roosevelt have won electoral college votes. (Robert La Follette had 13 in 1924, Strom Thurmond had 39 in 1948, George Wallace had 46 in 1968 and John Hospers won one in 1972, albeit from a faithless elector).
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American History: The First Real Two-Party U.S. Presidential Election in 1796 * This first contested presidential election demonstrated a flaw in the Constitution’s electoral college scheme since the country now had a Federalist president and a Republican vice president. Four years later, the two republican candidates, Jefferson and Burr, each received 73 electoral votes.
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3 Other Elections Where the Winner Lost the Popular Vote Although Republican nominee Donald Trump garnered the necessary number of electoral points to become the next president of the United States of America, Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote.
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56a. The Election of 1960 The Presidential election of 1960 was one of the closest in American history. John F. Kennedy won the popular vote by a slim margin of approximately 100,000 votes. Richard Nixon won more individual states than Kennedy, but it was Kennedy who prevailed by winning key states with many electoral votes.
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Whig Party In 1840, the Whig Party chose Harrison as its only candidate. Harrison received 53.1 percent of the vote to incumbent Van Buren's 46.9 percent. Unfortunately for the Whigs, Harrison died a month after taking office. Vice President John Tyler succeeded Harrison.
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Political Parties The Electoral College exacerbates the winner-take-all system because in all but two states, whoever wins the most popular votes wins all of the state’s electoral votes in the presidential election. The electoral rules favor a two-party system, and minor parties have a very difficult time competing in such a system. Even successful third-party candidates often fail to get a single electoral vote. 1  1. 2  2. 3  3. 4  Next →.
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ELECTION IN RUSSIA: THE OVERVIEW; Putin Wins Russia Vote in First Round, But His Majority Is Less Than Expected ELECTION IN RUSSIA: THE OVERVIEW. MOSCOW, Monday, March 27— Acting President Vladimir V. Putin won a narrow majority of the vote today in Russia's presidential election, gaining the outright victory that the Kremlin had pursued with growing desperation to avoid a runoff next month.
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- Published: March 27, 2000. MOSCOW, Monday, March 27— Acting President Vladimir V. Putin won a narrow majority of the vote today in Russia's presidential election, gaining the outright victory that the Kremlin had pursued with growing desperation to avoid a runoff next month.
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Presidential Candidates Who Won the Popular Vote But Lost the Election and Why Romney Could Be One 4. 2000: Al Gore Won the Vote But George W. Bush Won the Election. 1  Electoral Vote: Bush won 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266, but it took a recount and a contentious Supreme Court decision to confirm his victory.  Popular Vote: The final score showed that Gore won the popular vote by 543,895 votes.
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State of the States: Political Party Affiliation Given that most states had a Democratic advantage in party affiliation last year, to some degree it can be argued that Barack Obama could have won many more electoral votes than he did. In fact, Obama won 28 states (plus the District of Columbia) to John McCain's 22 in the 2008 election.
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ELECTION IN RUSSIA: THE OVERVIEW; Putin Wins Russia Vote in First Round, But His Majority Is Less Than Expected Virtually no one doubted that Mr. Putin would have won such a contest handily; Mr. Zyuganov, also the Communist candidate in the 1996 presidential election, could muster only 40 percent of the vote in a runoff that year against Mr. Yeltsin.
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11 Things You Didnât Know About Costco Costco pays hourly workers an average of $20.89 an hour, Businessweek reports. That compares to $12.67 an hour for Walmart. And about 88 percent of Costco employees have health insurance from the company. I just think people need to make a living wage with health benefits, Jelinek told the magazine.
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- In a presidential election, the Democratic candidate receives 48 percent of that state's popular vote, the Republican candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, and an independent candidate receives 12 percent of the vote.
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James Madison - Key Events James Madison - 02/08/1809: Congress announces the results of the 1808 preside…. Congress announces the results of the 1808 presidential election. Jefferson's secretary of state, Republican-Democrat James Madison, emerges victorious. Madison swamps Federalist opponent Charles C. Pinckney in electoral votes, 122 to 47. Pinckney carries only five states -- all of them in New England -- to Madison's twelve.
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- They formed the Populist Party, whose goals were the free coinage of silver and other reforms, like a graduated income tax and direct election of senators. James Weaver, the Populist candidate in the 1892 presidential election, won more than 8% of the vote, bringing the Party's agenda into the national spotlight.
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President-elect Trump is biggest loser ever in popular vote count Coincidentally, Trump, Bush, Hayes and Harrison are all Republicans, while Adams predates the two-party system the US has today. Andrew Jackson, Adams’ opponent in the 1828 presidential election, had the biggest ratio in popular vote advantage for a losing candidate - more than 10 percentage points.
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How Close Was This Election? In the 1920s, Republicans won all three presidential elections with anywhere from 54 to 60.3 percent of the popular vote. During 1930s and 1940s, the balance flipped, with Franklin Roosevelt winning anywhere from 53.4 to 60.8 percent of the popular vote, and as much as 98.5 percent of the Electoral College.
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- James Buchanan won 45.3% of the popular vote in the 1856 general election, a percentage that was significantly lower than the average of all elected presidents (52.15%). James Buchanan's margin of victory in the popular vote was a fairly high 12.2% and he received approximately 494 k more votes than his leading competitor, John C. Frémont. In terms of electoral votes, James Buchanan won with 174 electoral votes out of 296 electoral votes votes, or 58.8%.
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- The presidential election that took place on November 7, 2000, was so close that no one knew for more than a month who had won the election of 2000: Texas Governor George W. Bush (R), or Vice President Al Gore (D).ationally, Bush had won 246 electoral votes; Gore had won 260. The number of electoral votes needed to win the election is 270. Florida’s twenty-five electoral votes hung in the balance. Bush led Gore in Florida by 1784 votes.
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Presidential Elections Later, in the elections of 2000 and 2004, Democrats did not carry a single Southern state. The 1996 election was the most lavishly funded up to that point. The combined amount spent by the two major parties for all federal candidates topped $2 billion, which was 33 percent more than what was spent in 1992.
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- Like many northeastern states, Massachusetts slowly lost its electoral clout over the course of the 20th century. The state has lost 1/3 of its electoral votes since the 1920s, falling from 18 to 11. In 2012, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney 61% to 38%.
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- He won 4.1 million votes (27%), compared to Taft's 3.5 million (23%). The Democratic candidate, New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson gained 6.3 million votes (42% of the total), enough for a massive landslide in the Electoral College, with 435 electoral votes; Roosevelt won 88 electoral votes, and Taft had 8.
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- Posted: 04/24/2015 3:39 pm EDT Updated: 04/25/2015 8:59 pm EDT. Presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have the two highest rates of missed votes in the Senate, a Huffington Post analysis shows.
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Russian presidential election, 2012 After Putin spoke, popular folk band Lubeh took to the stage. Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a veteran of Russian politics who has participated in five presidential elections in Russia (every election since 1996). Zhirinovsky's campaign slogan for 2012 was Vote Zhirinovsky, or things will get worse.