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What presidential candidates won the popular but lost the electoral college vote?

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Democrat, Al Gore won the popular vote against George W. Bush in the 2000 election, but Bush won the electoral college vote. Neither candidate won a majority of the popular vote.

Samuel Tilden won the majority of the popular vote, but lost the electoral college vote to Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876,

Grover Cleveland won a plurality of popular vote in 1888 as did Andrew Jackson in 1824.
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