[OC] Größte Verlierer: Die meisten Stimmen für einen unterlegenen Präsidentschaftskandidaten, 1920–2024

[OC] Presidential candidates who lost the election while receiving the most votes as a percentage of the total population of voting-eligible citizens. Included are all years, 1920-2024, since the 19th Amendment, when women were given the Right to Vote.

2024 election tabulations are via the Cook Political Report National Popular Vote Tracker (subscriber version), as of November 21, 2024 15:00 GMT. The Voting-Eligible Population (VEP) is via the University of Florida Election Lab’s 2024 General Election Turnout Rates (v0.3). Since sources include some estimates and projections, the 2024 percentage values shown in this chart are the weighted mean of all states per VEP: 0.3116 for Harris and 0.3200 for Trump. Final certified tabulations will be different.

Election data was aggregated from The Federal Election Commission archives, with corroboration and missing data derived from the American Presidency Project and Wikipedia. A working spreadsheet of the aggregation can be found in the links below.

Data was assembled in MacOS Numbers, charted and output to SVG from R ggplot, and then refined in Adobe Illustrator.

Federal Election Commission, results and voting information: [https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/)

The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara: [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections)

United States Presidential Electoral College Results: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election)

Cook Political, 2024 National Popular Vote Tracker (subscriber): [https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college/subscriber](https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college/subscriber)

Working spreadsheet [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mkaGE9wiIsp_K2_4PxMwB2MrWPo_DKnw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117205343583540148406&rtpof=true&sd=true](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mkaGE9wiIsp_K2_4PxMwB2MrWPo_DKnw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117205343583540148406&rtpof=true&sd=true)

Final Charted Values

* 0 1960 32.81 John Kennedy 34,220,984
* 0 1960 32.71 Richard Nixon 34,108,157
* 1 2024 32.00 Donald Trump 76,898,763+
* 1 2024 31.16 Kamala Harris 74,391,431+
* 2 2020 34.06 Joe Biden 81,283,501
* 2 2020 31.10 Donald Trump 74,223,975
* 3 2016 28.94 Donald Trump 62,984,828
* 3 2016 30.26 Hillary Clinton 65,853,514
* 4 2012 31.92 Barack Obama 65,915,795
* 4 2012 29.50 Mitt Romney 60,933,504
* 5 1976 30.10 Jimmy Carter 40,831,881
* 5 1976 28.86 Gerald Ford 39,148,634
* 6 1940 34.15 Franklin Roosevelt 27,313,945
* 6 1940 27.94 Wendell Willkie 22,347,744
* 7 1952 34.37 Dwight Eisenhower 34,075,529
* 7 1952 27.62 Adlai Stevenson II 27,375,090
* 8 1988 31.01 GHW Bush 48,886,097
* 8 1988 26.52 Michael Dukakis 41,809,074
* 9 2004 27.80 GW Bush 62,040,610
* 9 2004 26.45 John Kerry 59,028,444

Am I the only one that finds this hard to read? Also using % of VEP feels like an odd choice because it brings voter turnout into the equation.

So the most votes a losing candidate ever had was 34.1m, and the second most votes a losing candidate has ever had was 74.4m.