In the end Bush won the electoral count 271 to 266.
The 1876 election saw one candidate capture the majority of the popular vote and another prevail in the electoral count.
He had someone contact The New York Times to ask for the paper's latest estimate of the electoral count.
It applied strictly to the electoral count of the 1876 election, and created a 15-member commission to rule on disputed electoral votes.
This first-time electoral count was exceeded when Ronald Reagan won 489 votes in 1980.
Second, Al Gore is leading at the present time in the electoral count.
The last electoral count (2002-2006) was 4,821 of the 250,000 living in the 42 electoral divisions of Fingal.
For though Andrew Jackson received more popular votes, no candidate had a majority in the electoral count.
But the state's electoral count would be the same.
He collects any rise or fall-even the smallest blip-in the projected electoral count.