Show Electoral Votes Count Countin in Electing President A President may be elected by a minority or less than half of the total number of popular votes cast This is possible explains a writer In fn the Cleveland Plain Dealer because because because be be- cause the President and vice President President President Pres Pres- ident are not elected directly by popular vote but by electors who are chosen by popular vote A candidate candidate candidate can can- for President nt receives all or none of ot the electoral votes cast by bya a state except in rare Instances when the electoral vote of a state is split Hence it is possible for a minority of the voters of the country country country coun coun- try as a whole to elect a majority of the presidential electors In the election of 1824 none of the four candidates for President re rev received a majority of either cither the electoral elec elect toral or the popular votes and John Quincy Adams was chos chosen n by the house of representatives In accordance accordance accordance ac ac- ac- ac with the method prescribed prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed by the Constitution for such cases Since then James K Polk Zachary Taylor James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln In 1860 Rutherford Rutherford Rutherford Ruther Ruther- ford B. B Hayes James JameS' A A. Garfield Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892 Benj Benjamin Benjmin min min Harrison and Woodrow Wilson Wilso in 1912 and 1916 were elected elected elected elect elect- ed President without receiving a majority of the total popular vote But in the disputed election of 1876 Samuel J. J Tilden actually receIved received received re re- re- re more popular votes than Hayes did and yet Hayes was declared declared de de- Glared elected the electoral count being finally determined as to Likewise In 1888 the Cleveland electors received popular votes to Benjamin Harrisons Harrison's But Harrison Horrison was elected electoral votes to Cleveland's |