Popular vote (United States presidential election)

Balloting

Ballots
Absentee ballot Provisional ballot Sample ballot
Candidates and Ballot measures
Write-in candidate Electorate Slate Ticket
Collection
Ballot box Compulsory voting Early voting Electronic voting Open ballot Polling place Postal voting Precinct Vote center Voting booth
Counting
Popular vote Tally Voting machine

Electoral systems

Plurality and majoritarian systems
First-past-the-post voting Two-round system Instant-runoff voting Plurality-at-large voting General ticket Usual judgment
Proportional and semi-proportional systems
Single non-transferable vote Cumulative voting Binomial system Party-list Single transferable voting Spare vote
Mixed-member systems
Mixed-member proportional Additional member system Mixed single vote (positive vote transfer) Scorporo (negative vote transfer) Mixed ballot transferable vote Alternative Vote Plus Dual-member proportional Rural–urban proportional Majority bonus system Parallel voting (Mixed member majoritarian)

Voting strategies

Protest votes
Issue voting Fusion voting Split-ticket voting Straight-ticket voting Tactical voting Vote pairing
Abstention Donkey vote Election boycott None of the above Refused ballot Spoilt vote

In representative democracy, the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes received by a party, candidate or group of candidates, as opposed to the number of seats they win in the representative assembly or, as in the United States, in the Electoral College in a presidential election. There have been five presidential elections in which the person who became president received fewer popular votes than their opponent, the most recent being the 2016 presidential election.^[1]

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Nominating conventions	List of nominating conventions Brokered convention Convention bounce Superdelegate
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Related	Campaign slogans Historical election polling Election Day Major party tickets Major party losers Presidential debates October surprise Red states and blue states Swing state Tipping-point state Election recount (2000) Guam straw poll Vice presidential confirmations: 1973 1974
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References

^ Evon, Dan. "Who Won the Popular Vote?". snopes. Retrieved 2016-11-14.

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