list of U.S. presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote: Quick Facts

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John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay

Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden

Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland

George W. Bush and Al Gore

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