2. Samuel Tilden (1876)
The United States presidential election of 1876 was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876 and it turned out to be one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history.
The results of the election remain among the most disputed ever, because Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio’s Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes’s 165, with 20 votes unresolved.
An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes. So with 185 electoral votes Hayes was declared winner.
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