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Romney won the election in Alabama with 60.55% of the vote, while Obama received 38.36%, a 22.19% margin of victory. [2] While the state swung slightly more Republican from 2008, Obama flipped two McCain counties, Barbour and Conecuh , into the Democratic column, thereby making it the last time either county voted for a Democratic presidential ...
The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew ...
The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and reported. Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election, the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit ...
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
Trump won the Volunteer State's 11 electoral votes by a wide margin: 62% of the votes. There were 1,964,499 votes counted for Trump in Tennessee. In 2020, Trump won Tennessee by 60.7%.
He won it bigly. President-elect Donald Trump has nabbed the highest raw count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential hopeful ever, according to projections of the 2024 election.. As ...
A viral post shared on Threads claims President-elect Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2% in the 2024 election. View on Threads Verdict: False The claim is false. Multiple sources, including ...
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives.