• Omega@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    No candidate received the majority. Trump received 49.9% of the vote, which was the most of any of the candidates.

    Therefore he won the plurality of votes. Buy he still did not win the majority.

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      11 hours ago

      Thanks for clarifying, you’re right he got just under 50%. For some reason I thought he got a majority this time but I was misinformed.

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        I think for the first week or so after the election it was a slim majority, but eventually slipped under as more mail-in ballots arrived.