That's just over 51% of the popular vote. Biden holds the record for most votes ever won by a U.S. presidential candidate. He received 306 electoral votes, well past the 270 needed to win. The ...

Instead, Biden not only won the popular vote but also 306 votes in the electoral college, a convergence that has not always happened over the past 24 years in the U.S. political system.

Four candidates in history have won the popular vote only to be denied the presidency by the Electoral College. The Electoral College was devised at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

The popular vote helps determine how many electoral votes each candidate gets. It is not meant to determine who the majority of the country wants, but rather, who each state wants as president.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes, but it was where those votes fell that mattered, and Trump won in the states he needed for those Electoral College votes.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Larry Garber, an international affairs professor at George Washington University, discussed the relationship between the popular vote and the ...

A correction of two fewer votes per state (and Washington D.C.), making electoral vote counts (like House member counts) proportional to population, would have put Al Gore ahead of George W. Bush ...

Tim Walz called for the end of the Electoral College Tuesday. A National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has been enacted in some states but not all.

The 2000 election was decided by just 0.51 percentage points with then-Vice President Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing in the Electoral College to George W. Bush.

The popular vote may be in play as the presidential ballots are being counted. Here's what the popular vote actually is and does.

A majority of Americans prefer the popular vote for U.S. president rather than a winner being determined by the Electoral College, according to a new Gallup poll. To win the presidential election ...