Election Headliners
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 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) |
