Below you will find example sentences with "popular vote". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Popular Vote in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: popular
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "popular vote" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as lost the popular vote, a national popular vote candidates would, electoral, college and election stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with popular culture, popular tourist, majority vote, popular culture and popular music, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with popular vote
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Trump will win the popular vote and will win the electoral vote. (12 words)
Popular vote inversions rarely occur when one candidate earns a majority of the popular vote. (15 words)
And how will Democrats accept another Electoral Vote defeat if they win the popular vote? (15 words)
CA’s head of data Alex Tayler, who has now succeeded Nix as temporary CEO, also suggests that “the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes but won the electoral college vote, that’s down to the data and the research”. (46 words)
But we still have a way to go, so write your state level representative and senator, if you have a bicameral state legislature, as well as the governor, and let them know what you want — electors must vote based on the popular vote. (43 words)
President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote. (39 words)
And how will Democrats accept another Electoral Vote defeat if they win the popular vote? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
National Popular Vote says it believes Michigan this year could vote to join the National Popular Vote compact.
A faithless elector is a representative in the electoral college that does not vote for the candidate they are pledged to vote for once that candidate wins the popular vote, Den Otter explained.
And PCS union leader Mark Serwotka hoped that a “People’s Vote would be a popular vote—a vote of no confidence that would lead to a general election”.
If the United States depended solely on the popular vote to determine national elections, a razor-thin margin in the popular vote would warrant a recount of the hundreds of millions of votes cast nationwide.
Popular vote inversions rarely occur when one candidate earns a majority of the popular vote.
As laid out by a nonprofit advocating for a national popular vote, candidates would still have to campaign in a broad array of places if they wanted to secure a majority in a popular vote system.
Popular vote The Federalists received a small amount of the popular vote despite having no electoral candidates.
President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.
Roosevelt won by a landslide in both the electoral and popular vote, receiving the highest percentage of the popular vote for a Democratic nominee.
In their first elections for president, George W. Bush and Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote.
And how will Democrats accept another Electoral Vote defeat if they win the popular vote?
Obama emphasised the need for all Americans to vote, making reference to the voters who stayed home in 2016 and helped deliver Donald Trump victory that year, even as he lost the popular vote.
President Trump and President George W. Bush won the electoral vote during the election, but not the popular vote.
The poster could go to the US and vote illegally like over 3 million did in the last election according to Trump, ‘proving’ that he did win the popular vote after all.
Trump will do better than the polls, because too many people are ashamed to admit they’d vote for him, but he’ll still lose the popular vote and electoral college, but with no great fervour for Biden.
Trump will win the popular vote and will win the electoral vote.
But we still have a way to go, so write your state level representative and senator, if you have a bicameral state legislature, as well as the governor, and let them know what you want — electors must vote based on the popular vote.
The court said Electoral College members can vote for the presidential candidate of their choice and aren’t bound by the popular vote in their states.
CA’s head of data Alex Tayler, who has now succeeded Nix as temporary CEO, also suggests that “the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes but won the electoral college vote, that’s down to the data and the research”.
Although the Populist ticket did not win the popular vote in any state, 27 electors for Bryan cast their vice-presidential vote for Watson instead of Sewall.