1 John Quincy Adams who lost by 44,804 votes to Andrew Jackson in 1824. 2  Rutherford B. Hayes who lost by 264,292 votes to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. 3  Benjamin Harrison who lost by 95,713 votes to Grover Cleveland in 1888. 4  George W. Bush who lost by 543,816 votes to Al Gore in the 2000 election.
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1 In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George Bush. 2  In the most highly contested election in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount of ballots, giving Bush the state’s 25 electoral votes for a total of 271 to Gore’s 255.
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1 Rutherford B. Hayes who lost by 264,292 votes to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. 2  Benjamin Harrison who lost by 95,713 votes to Grover Cleveland in 1888. 3  George W. Bush who lost by 543,816 votes to Al Gore in the 2000 election.
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1 John Quincy Adams became the next president when he was picked by the House of Representatives. 2  In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election when Rutherford B. Hayes got 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.
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1 In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election when Rutherford B. Hayes got 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184. 2  In 1888 Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election when Benjamin Harrison got 233 electoral votes to Cleveland’s 168.
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The 2000 election was not the first time a candidate won the popular vote but lost the election. It has happened four times in our nation’s history: 1  In 1824 Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but got less than 50% of the electoral votes. 2  John Quincy Adams became the next president when he was picked by the House of Representatives.
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But it did occur in the Hayes/Tilden election of 1876 and the Harrison/Cleveland election of 1888 due to the statistical disparity between vote totals in individual State elections and the national vote totals.
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This also occured in the 2000 presidential election, where George W. Bush received fewer popular votes than Albert Gore Jr., but received a majority of electoral votes.\. gaildee · 7 years ago. Thumbs up.
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Report Abuse. George W. Bush in the 2000 election, for one. As much as I don't like the outcome of that election, Bush is correct in stating that the electoral college system is the one we have, and that if the popular vote directly elected the president he would have run his campaign differently. (I really hate to have to recognize that he was right about anything.
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Answer: Four presidents took office without winning the popular vote. In other words, they did not receive a plurality in terms of the popular vote. They were elected, instead, by the electoral college or in the case of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives after a tie in the electoral votes. They were:
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what presidents won the electoral vote, but lost the popular vote
The president Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote but lost the popular vote.