Election Headliners| Candidate with the highest popular vote | Reagan (1984) | 54,455,075 | | Candidate with the highest electoral vote | Reagan (1984) | 525 | | Candidates who carried the most states | Nixon (1972) and Reagan (1984) | 49
49 | | Candidates who won the electoral college but lost the popular vote | Hayes (1876) Benjamin Harrison (1888) George W. Bush (2000) | | | Candidate who became President but lost both the electoral college and the popular vote | John Quincy Adams (1824) (elected by the House of Representatives) | |
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