Sentence examples for won the electoral from inspiring English sources

He won the electoral college and lost the popular vote.

Mr. Bush lost the popular vote but narrowly won the electoral vote.

Although nearly 17,000,000 Americans voted the Republican ticket, Landon won the electoral votes of only Maine and Vermont.

He won the electoral college by 332 votes to Mitt Romney's 206 almost as convincing a victory as in 2008.

Bush lost the national popular vote to Gore by 0.51% but won the electoral college by 271 votes to 266.

By winning Florida, Bush narrowly won the electoral vote over Gore by 271 to 266 only 1 more than the required 270 (one Gore elector abstained).

On average, excluding 1868, the incumbent party has won the Electoral College by a margin of 3.8 percent (as a share of the available electors), which is the equivalent of winning today's Electoral College 279-259.

But, of course, Trump won the Electoral College.

There were only about 4,000 simulations in which Mr. Romney won the Electoral College by such a narrow margin.

In 2000, Mr. Bush received 544,000 fewer votes than Al Gore but won the Electoral College.

In 1824 for example, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote and John Quincy Adams won the Electoral College.