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The 2016 campaign between donald trump and hillary clinton was the 13th closest in the countrys history with trump losing the popular vote by 3 million but winning the electoral college 304 227.

Us election news politico. The first us presidential election in 1789 was a unanimous win for george washington with 69 seats in the electoral college at the time. Nail bitingly close election results. Tilden defeated rutherford in the popular vote but had 184 electoral votes to hayes 165 there were 20 uncounted.

Thomas jefferson the 3rd us president made history by being the first president to have won an election by 1 vote. Legal challenges eventually brought the race before the us. The 2000 presidential election was one of the most contentious in american history and one of the closestjust days before the election pollsters said it was too close to call.

Today there are 538 seats in the electoral college and many elections see very small margins for victory. Fittingly the first election would become the only election in us history to see a unanimous victory. There have been several instances in the past when the elections were decided by one vote.

Elections and united states election project to come up with its list. The closest and probably the weirdest presidential election was the election of 1824 in which democratic republican president john quincy adams triumphed over. The 1876 election was one of the most disputed in american history.

Supreme court where calls for a recount were. In the end incumbent democratic republican president james madison defeated dewitt clinton. Senator rick santorum defeated former massachusetts governor mitt romney in the statewide republican caucuses the closest gop primary election in united states history.

Closest us presidential elections in history by james karuga on april 25 2017 in politics in 1824 andrew jackson left received far more popular votes than john q. Vote tallying was marred by inconsistencies particularly in florida where al gore demanded a recount. Romney had been declared the winner by 8 votes on caucus night.

It has incorporated the 1789 2016 presidential election data from 270towin dave leips atlas of us. John quincy adams vs. The election of 1812 was the first presidential election to be held during a major war in which the united states was involved as it took place during the war of 1812.

But the united states has certainly had its share of close elections dating from the earliest days of the republic to recent history.