Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more popular votes than Bush, making him the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to win the popular vote but lose in the Electoral College. (It would happen again 16 years later, when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the 2016 election.) Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate, making him the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Furthermore, Gore lost West Virginia, a state that had voted Republican only once in the previous six presidential elections. A victory in any of these three states would have given Gore enough electoral votes to win the presidency., George Bush received 50,456,002 votes (47.87%) and Gore received 50,999,897 (48.38%)

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