Directions: Use the information provided for each of the presidential elections to answer each set of questions.
1. Presidential election of 1888
Popular vote:
| Grover Cleveland | 5,537,857 |
| Benjamin Harrison | 5,447,129 |
Based upon these results, who is president? Explain why.
2. Presidential election of 1876 (Total electors was 369)
| popular vote | electoral vote | |
| Samuel Tilden | 4,284,020 | 184 |
| Rutheford B. Hayes | 4,036,572 | 185 |
Which candidate won the popular vote?______________________.
Which candidate won the electoral vote?_____________________.
Based upon the results above, which candidate becomes president? Explain why.
3. Presidential election of 1824 (Total number of electors was 261.)
| popular vote | electoral vote | |
| Andrew Jackson | 153,544 | 99 |
| John Quincy Adams | 108,740 | 84 |
| Henry Clay | 47,136 | 37 |
| William Crawford | 46,618 | 41 |
Which candidate won the popular vote?_____________________.
Which candidate won the most electoral votes? ___________________.
According to the above information, which candidate becomes president. Explain why.
Who would determine the winner of the 1824 election?
4. Presidential election of 1860 (Total electors was 303)
| popular vote | electoral vote | |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1,865,593 | 180 |
| Stephen Douglas | 1,382,713 | 12 |
| John Breckenridge | 848,356 | 72 |
| John Bell | 592,906 | 39 |
Based on the above results, which of the candidates became president? Why?
5. If in the year 2000, Vice President Al Gore had won the popular vote in the 12 most populated states but lost the popular vote to Texas governor George W. Bush, who becomes president? Explain why.
6. In the year 2000 the following election results occurred. Who became president?
| popular vote | electoral vote | |
| Al Gore | 50,996,116 | 166 |
| George W. Bush | 50,456,169 | 271 |
| Other | 3,874,040 | 0 |
7.The actual winner in question #3 was John Quincy Adams. What do you think happened? (Thought problem)