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n. The total number of votes of a given electorate.
Usage examples of "popular vote".
In other words, my guess at the moment is that McGovern will lose by a popular vote margin of 5.
He was, he declared, in favor of both gold and silver money, an admirable sentiment as acceptable as it was unintelligible, to get the largest popular vote.
A major political party that won a plurality of the popular vote in the last presidential election wanted to treat terrorists like Martha Stewart facing an insider trading charge.
If you look at margin of victory in the popular vote, he does a little better, but not much.
A soaring symbol of the best in American life, and I suppose if it had been put to a popular vote, it would have been defeated on the grounds, “.
With polls projecting Hall will receive nearly 60 percent of the popular vote, it looks as if they will.
The executive power would reside in the person of a president, who would be elected indirectly (according to a kind of paradox) by direct popular vote and who would enjoy substantial control over the administrative apparatus of government, including the authority to veto legislation, though that veto could be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both the Senate and the House.