Talk:List of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received

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Sources

BD2412, could you please provide sources for the data on this page? Thank you. SunCrow (talk) 23:00, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All of the data is derived from our pages on the specific elections, which is sourced on those individual pages. I have added a few of those sources. bd2412 T 23:12, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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2605:E000:121F:9557:E987:D28E:491D:3AD3 (talk) 18:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

update this page with bidens resukts

This article will be updated when there are final and official results to list. BD2412 T 18:28, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"electoral college" --> "Electoral College"

"Electoral College" should be capitalized everywhere it is written. A50E10AN500ER (talk) 21:53, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Columns for fraction of eligible voters or fraction of population?

While raw votes are interesting, it would also be useful to be able to compare between different years based on fraction of the population or of eligible voters to reflect the overall popularity or enthusiasm. j-beda (talk) 13:24, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

agreed. that would be quite a useful addition. it looks like wikipedia already has that data at Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections. shouldn't be too hard to do the math and add it, but the page is under edit protection right now so that would require someone with appropriate privileges to make the change. Nrjank (talk) 03:29, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit protection is set to expire in a few days, so unless there are further episodes of vandalism, this should be able to be done then. BD2412 T 03:47, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I also miss this column. --Error (talk) 09:45, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure, in retrospect, that a "fractions of the eligible voting population" column would be workable, but we could easily add a percentage of voters column to the "Popular votes in individual elections" section. BD2412 T 23:00, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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2020 Election Winner hasn't been declared. 50.103.97.251 (talk) 02:10, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources from across the political spectrum have declared a winner. BD2412 T 03:52, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit extended-protected}} template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Reliable sources" are not certified sources. Only a "declared winner" or "projected winner" can be stated with accuracy at this time. Wisconsin votes, for example, are not certified until December 1. Also, many precincts are not done counting. Lastly, even once certified, if there are active lawsuits, then a note must be added that the counts are subject to judicial review and thus not final. To state otherwise (such as saying there is a current "winner") is disingenuous, false, misleading, and against Wikipedia's policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greydorsai (talk • contribs) 13:32, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is exactly the same basis we used on November 8, 2016, to describe Donald Trump as the "winner" of that election; I don't recall anyone saying that this was against Wikipedia's policies. BD2412 T 17:25, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: At this time, the number of Electoral College votes that are either certified or unchallenged is 284 for Biden to 222 for Trump, so the certification question is now moot. BD2412 T 20:48, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thinking of adding a "Runner-up" label.

Since we label the winners, I am thinking of labelling all second-place finishers as "Runner-up", so that those in earlier elections with smaller numbers are more easily distinguished from recent high-performing third-party candidates. BD2412 T 01:43, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As there has been no objection raised to this, I am going to go ahead and implement it throughout the article. BD2412 T 20:49, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will comment it simply looks ugly and repetitive seeing runner-up for several rows straight. But this is a minor article so I'm not going to resist. Admanny (talk) 21:41, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The problem occurs later down the page, where both winners and runners-up from earlier elections are mixed up with third-party candidates from more recent elections. BD2412 T 22:14, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is the exact vote count pending anymore?

All states have certified their results for the 2020 election, so is the 2020 vote count for Biden and Trump still pending? –User:Thegayfrenchbullie123 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:32, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Franklin Pierce

President Franklin Pierce is listed on the single election results, but not the lifetime results. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.130.166.26 (talk) 22:44, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Cheers! BD2412 T 17:02, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add section for lifetime Electoral College votes

This article could benefit from displaying lifetime Electoral College vote count in addition to popular vote count. 12.74.53.88 (talk) 04:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See List of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College. This is somewhat tricky because technically vice-presidential candidates also receive Electoral College votes, and, particularly in the early days of the country, there was not actually a distinction between presidential and vice-presidential Electoral College votes, with the candidate receiving the second-highest number of such votes automatically becoming vice-president. BD2412 T 14:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Jefferson Error

The amount of total votes Thomas Jefferson has in this chart only accounts for the 1804 election, even though he got electoral votes in 1796 and 1800 47.34.161.156 (talk) 22:45, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]