Joe Biden Becomes First Presidential Candidate to Receive 80 Million Votes.
President-elect Joe Biden has officially received the most votes cast for a presidential candidate in U.S. history.
As of November 25, he has earned 80 million votes.
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Former President Barack Obama previously held the record after receiving 69.5 million votes in 2008.
Donald Trump has earned the second-most votes of all time, having received 74 million in the 2020 presidential election.
The turnout rate for the 2020 presidential election was the highest in more than a century.
More than 156 million Americans cast their ballots.
That is estimated to be 66.5 percent of the eligible voter population.
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The final vote total will likely be around 158 million.
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That is 20 million more votes than the record 137 million that were cast in 2016.
