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• February 9
  ...se because none of the five candidates had secured a majority of electoral votes, but Andrew Jackson had won more than Adams.
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• February 8
  ...chard Mentor Johnson after no candidate received a majority of [[electoral votes]]
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• Directory:Article Purgatory/Proportional Representation of the Views of the Electorate
  ...ctoral systems that aim to achieve a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections, and the percentage of seats ...ns that centrist parties with large minorities control close to 50% of the votes in the house, while representing the views only of the leader.
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• February 4
  ...imously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. The happens in 1792 * 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...inished third, carrying only the state of Maryland and its eight electoral votes; but he won 21.6% of the popular vote, one of the best showings ever by a P ==Electoral history==
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...in the popular vote and 254 to 42 in the [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. [[Image:ElectoralCollege1852-Large.png|thumb|left|370px|Electoral map of the [[United States presidential election, 1852|1852 presidential el
  34 KB (4,964 words) - 19:56, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...ut of office after four years, with a close popular vote but a rout in the electoral vote. In 1848 he ran for president on a third party ticket, the [[Free Soi ...was a slave owner). In the same year, he was chosen a presidential [[U.S. Electoral College|elector]]. It is at this point that Van Buren's connection began wi
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Government And Politics
  the authority to decide budget allocations and to stage votes of no confidence in office holders. Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) controls the executive and the electoral process. The VCP
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...n of the will of the people. He even proposed, unsuccessfully, that the [[Electoral College]] be abolished. ...g]], [[Newton Cannon]]<!-- how much is this in terms of %?: by about 2,500 votes-->. Though he revitalized Democrats in Tennessee, his victory could not put
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The candidate with the lowest votes, [[Henry Clay]], was dropped from consideration, and Clay gave his support ...on won everything else except for New York, which gave 16 of its electoral votes to Adams.
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...r president, Adams came in second in the [[United States Electoral College|electoral college]] and became Vice President in the [[U.S. presidential election, 17 ...alhoun]] came close to tying, with 28.<ref> Ferling (1992) p 311</ref> His votes protected the president's sole authority over the removal of appointees and
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  ...was a party primary), and it finally announced Johnson won by eighty-seven votes. The committee voted 29-28 to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last v ...he had formed with Stevenson, Symington and Humphrey, Johnson received 409 votes on the first and only ballot at the Democratic convention, which nominated
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  [[Image:ElectoralCollege1908-Large.png|left|thumb|Electoral votes by state, 1908.]] [[Image:ElectoralCollege1912-Large.png|right|thumb|Electoral votes by state, 1912.]]
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...very or not. Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature reelected Douglas to the ...he states in which he won the electoral votes and would still have won the electoral college and the election.
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...es had no popular ballot). The [[United States Electoral College|Electoral votes]] were split four ways, with Jackson again having a plurality. Since no can ===Electoral College===
  58 KB (8,338 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...ng of political pundits and ordinary voters who felt that Warren Harding's electoral success was based on his appearance, essentially that he "looked like a pre ...margin of victory. Cox received 34% of the national vote and 127 electoral votes. [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene V. Debs]], campaigning f
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  [[Image:ElectoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|The 1988 presidential electoral votes by state]] ...el Dukakis]] and [[Lloyd Bentsen]] soundly in the [[U.S. Electoral College|Electoral College]], by 426 to 111 (Bentsen received one vote). In the nationwide pop
  58 KB (8,386 words) - 22:01, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Benjamin Harrison
  ...ular votes than incumbent President [[Grover Cleveland]] but carried the [[Electoral College]] 233 to 168. Although he had made no political bargains, his suppo
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...h; both of which neighbored his home state &ndash; Ford would have won the electoral vote.<ref>[http://www.multied.com/elections/1976state.html Presidential Ele ==Electoral history==
  105 KB (15,370 words) - 01:40, 12 December 2009
• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...land was elected [[List of mayors of Buffalo, New York|mayor]] with 15,120 votes, as against 11,528 for [[Milton C. Beebe]], his opponent.<ref>Nevins, 83</r ...lf, and in the general election Cleveland emerged the victor, with 535,318 votes to Republican nominee [[Charles J. Folger]]'s 342,464.<ref>Nevins, 105</ref
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