In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the US presidential election, but Donald Trump still became president. This was because of the Electoral College—a system unique to the US where the ...

Donald Trump’s victory in individual votes marks the first time in 20 years the Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote. The last time the Republican presidential candidate won the ...

You can lose the popular vote and still take the highest office in the land. Interestingly, this has been a rather rare occurrence. Typically, winning the popular vote means you’re winning the ...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finds herself on the wrong end of an electoral split, moving ahead in the popular vote but losing to President-elect Donald Trump in the Electoral ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- There were many protesters but few faithless electors as Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote Monday - ensuring he will become America's 45th president. An effort by ...

Donald Trump won the White House this election with a final 312 electoral votes. He received 77.3 million popular votes, a number that ranks among the largest vote totals ever. The presidential ...

Republican support for selecting a president by national popular vote cratered after the 2016 election, in which Donald Trump won the electoral college and thus the presidency but failed to win the ...