The chart below compares California’s margins with the rest of the country from 1992 forward, ... 2008: Obama won the national popular vote by over 9.5 million votes, ...

Here are seven charts and maps that explain how the US popular vote, turnout in individual states and ultimately turnout in the seven key battleground states – where electoral votes were up for ...

Going back further, only John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Nixon in 1968 won the popular vote by smaller margins, 0.17% and 0.7%, respectively. Using raw votes, Trump’s margin was also smaller than in ...

Using raw votes, Trump’s margin was also smaller than in any election going back to 2000. At about 2.5 million, it was the fifth-smallest popular vote margin since 1960.

These claims are false. While Trump’s popular vote percentage margin in 2024 falls in the smallest quintile of U.S. presidential elections—and was, at 1.47 percent, even smaller than claimed ...

Data: Polymarket; Chart: Axios Visuals At no point before Election Day did the prediction markets give Donald Trump a greater than 43% chance of winning the popular vote. Indeed, in mid-August the ...

Some are straightforwardly partisan, recognitions that its existence has given Republicans two presidents in the past 30 years who lost the popular vote (including Trump).