if it takes 270 electorial votes to elect a presedet If FDR was elected four times he would have had the most electorial
votes. Which presedent recceived the least amount of total votes?
If you count all electoral votes received regardless of whether or not the candidate won, I think it’s Zachary Taylor with 163.
If you’re only counting votes the candidate received when they won an election, probably Quincy Adams, since he won with 84 in 1824 (but also received 83 in 1828, which he lost).
John Adams won with 71. Of course, the country was smaller then.
F. Roosevelt, in his career as a Presidential candidate, received 1876 electoral votes. (It took 266 to win in his day, by the way.) Am I safe in assuming that’s what you mean?
So are we looking for a career total of electoral votes for someone who was at least once President? As Captain Amazing implies, a percentage would probably work better. And I’d suspect (being too lazy to crunch numbers tonight) that such as John Quincy Adams (elected by the House), or a Gerald Ford (a succeeding Vice-President who lost a bid for election) is probably the answer.
I also suspect that second behind FDR is Grover Cleveland.
I’ll add that Roosevelt’s electoral vote victories were truly impressive by any standards. It wasn’t just that he ran four times; he kicked ass four times.
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Cleveland is 7th, behind Roosevelt, Nixon (who won and lost the same number of elections as Cleveland, but with more electoral votes to be won and one huge landslide), Reagan, Eisenhower, Clinton, and Wilson.
I didn’t even think of Nixon, and I, of all people, should have.
bad question/ I didn; take iinto consideration fact the the number would change every time we added a new State,
I was thinking Ford Was there any other that became president with out going through the electoral collage?
Ford is the only President we’ve had who never won a presidential election. But in the 1976 election, where he lost to Carter, he still managed to win 240 electoral votes.
How about Andrew Johnson. He received zero electoral votes for President.
Okay, I counted all the electoral votes ever cast for President.
Presidents:
Franklin Roosevelt - 1876
Richard Nixon - 1040
Ronald Reagan - 1015
Dwight Eisenhower - 899
Bill Clinton - 749
Woodrow Wilson - 712
Grover Cleveland - 664
George H. W. Bush - 594
William McKinley - 563
George W. Bush - 557
Herbert Hoover - 503
Ulysses Grant - 500
Andrew Jackson - 496
Lyndon Johnson - 486
Theodore Roosevelt - 424
James Monroe - 414
Warren Harding - 404
Abraham Lincoln - 392
Calvin Coolidge - 382
Benjamin Harrison - 378
Barack Obama - 365
Jimmy Carter - 346
William Taft - 329
William Harrison - 307
Thomas Jefferson - 307
John Kennedy - 303
Harry Truman - 303
Franklin Pierce - 254
James Madison - 250
John Adams - 247
Gerald Ford - 240
Martin Van Buren - 230
James Garfield - 214
George Washington - 201
Rutherford Hayes - 185
James Buchanan - 174
James Polk - 170
John Quincy Adams - 168
Zachary Taylor - 163
Millard Fillmore - 8
Chester Arthur - 0
Andrew Johnson - 0
John Tyler - 0
Non-presidents:
William Jennings Bryan - 493
Thomas Dewey - 288
Al Gore - 266
Charles Evans Hughes - 254
John Kerry - 251
Henry Clay - 191
Hubert Humphrey - 191
Samuel Tilden - 184
James Blaine - 182
John McCain - 173
Adlai Stevenson - 162
Robert Dole - 159
Winfield Hancock - 155
Alton Parker - 140
John Davis - 136
Lewis Cass - 127
James Cox - 127
Charles Pinckney - 126
John Fremont - 114
Michael Dukakis - 111
Aaron Burr - 104
DeWitt Clinton - 89
Al Smith - 87
Wendell Willkie - 82
Horatio Seymour - 80
John Breckinridge - 72
George Clinton - 66
Barry Goldwater - 52
George Wallace - 46
Thomas Hendricks - 42
Winfield Scott - 42
William Crawford - 41
John Bell - 39
Strom Thurmond - 39
Rufus King - 34
Hugh White - 26
James Weaver - 22
George McClellan - 21
Benjamin Brown - 18
George McGovern - 17
Samuel Adams - 15
Harry Byrd - 15
John Jay - 15
Daniel Webster - 14
Robert La Follette - 13
Walter Mondale - 13
Stephen Douglas - 12
Oliver Ellsworth - 11
John Floyd - 11
Willie Mangum - 11
Alf Landon - 8
William Wirt - 7
Robert Harrison - 6
John Rutledge - 6
John Hancock - 4
Horace Greeley - 3
James Iredell - 3
John Henry - 2
Samuel Huntington - 2
Charles Jenkins - 2
Samuel Johnston - 2
John Milton - 2
James Armstrong - 1
Lloyd Bentsen - 1
David Davis - 1
John Edwards - 1
John Hospers - 1
Walter Jones - 1
Benjamin Lincoln - 1
Edward Telfair - 1
However, he ran with George Washington under the old system where electoral votes for President and Vice-President were not separated, so he racked up EVs in those elections. – see Little Nemo’s chart above.