text: Tilden vs Hayes in 1876.  Tilden got popilar vote.  Hayes got electoral majority by one vote after three disputed states were given to him by an electoral commission.  The commission voted along partisan lines.  The Republicans had the majority.  So one man decided the outcome.  \n\nThe dispute, however, did not end, as Democrats threatened to filibuster in the Senate. Eventually, a compromise was reached whereby Hayes agreed to name at least one Southerner to his cabinet and to withdraw all federal troops in the South, bringing to an end the era of Reconstruction.