Meanings of popular votes in English

Did he receive a majority of the popular votes?

Same-sex marriage has been rejected in all 32 states that have held popular votes on the issue.

It is the man who received more popular votes than Lincoln, but fewer in the Electoral College.

There are two methods we can use to project Tuesday's primary (not caucus) contests' popular votes.

He also had a margin of 3.5 million popular votes.

Douglas received 1,375,157 popular votes, and twelve electoral votes.

Breckinridge received 847,953 popular votes, and seventy-two electoral votes.

Bell received 590,631 popular votes, and thirty-nine electoral votes.

General Jackson had polled more popular votes in the election, but he did not gain enough electoral votes to win outright.

A Wall Street Journal editorial proclaimed not long ago, Mr. Bush won with more popular votes than Bill Clinton ever did.

The vote was as follows: Lincoln received 1,866,452 popular votes, and one hundred and eighty electoral votes.

But none of these parties cast so many as 150,000 popular votes or secured any electoral votes.

Jackson swept every Southern and Western State, and received six hundred and fifty thousand popular votes, against five hundred thousand for Adams.

In November, Washington state and Colorado became the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use following popular votes in both states.

Mr Obama has a nearly insurmountable lead in popular votes won during the first three months of the primary battle and in delegates.

Courts and state legislatures have legalized gay marriage in the United States but popular votes have consistently opposed same-sex unions, most recently in Maine.