Editing United States Electoral College (section)

==== Notable elections ====
{{see also|List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote}}

The elections of [[1876 United States presidential election|1876]], [[1888 United States presidential election|1888]], [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]], and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] produced an Electoral College winner who did not receive at least a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality]] of the nationwide [[Popular vote (representative democracy)|popular vote]].<ref name="GeorgeEdwards" /> In [[1824 United States presidential election|1824]], there were six states in which electors were legislatively appointed, rather than popularly elected, so it is uncertain what the national popular vote would have been if all presidential electors had been popularly elected. When no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in 1824, the election was decided by the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and so could be considered distinct from the latter four elections in which all of the states had popular selection of electors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Electoral College Mischief, The Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2004 |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005582 |access-date=August 26, 2010 |publisher=Opinionjournal.com}}</ref> The true national popular vote was also uncertain in the [[1960 United States presidential election|1960]] election, and the plurality for the winner depends on how votes for Alabama electors are allocated.<ref name="trende">{{cite news |date=October 22, 2012 |title=Did JFK Lose the Popular Vote? |publisher=RealClearPolitics |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/19/did_jfk_lose_the_popular_vote_115833.html |access-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref>

'''Elections where the popular vote and electoral college results differed'''
* 1800: [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] won with 61.4% of the popular vote; [[John Adams|Adams]] had 38.6%*
* 1824: [[John Quincy Adams|Adams]] won with 30.9% of the popular vote; [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]] had 41.4%*
* 1836 (only for vice president): [[Richard Mentor Johnson|Johnson]] won with 63.5% of the popular vote; [[Francis Granger|Granger]] had 30.8%*
* 1876: [[Samuel J. Tilden|Tilden]] (D) received 50.9% of the vote, [[Rutherford B. Hayes|Hayes]] (R) received 47.9%
* 1888: [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]] (D) received 48.6% of the vote, [[Benjamin Harrison|Harrison]] (R) received 47.8%
* 2000: [[Al Gore|Gore]] (D) received 48.4% of the vote, [[George W. Bush|Bush]] (R) received 47.9%
* 2016: [[Hillary Clinton|Clinton]] (D) received 48.2% of the vote, [[Donald Trump|Trump]] (R) received 46.1%
''*These popular vote tallies are partial because several of the states still used their legislature to choose electors not a popular vote. In both elections a tied electoral college threw the contest over to Congress to decide.''