Knowing the electoral system of the country, the trends, the consequences or the special circumstances of the election will help you because of course no-one knows the exact numbers!
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1.Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton (2016 United States presidential election)
48.5% Trump - 50.1% Clinton
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46.1% Trump - 48.2% Clinton
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50.1% Trump - 49.9% Clinton
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49.5% Trump - 49.8% Clinton
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2.Adolf Hitler (NSDAP Party) in the March 1933 German federal election, the last multi-party elections in Germany before WWII.
43.9%
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51.3%
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27.9%
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35.8%
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3.Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party) vs Andrew Scheer (Conservative Party) in the 2019 Canada federal election
45.1% Trudeau - 40.9% Scheer
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36.0% Trudeau - 31.3% Scheer
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33.1% Trudeau - 34.3% Scheer
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25.2% Trudeau - 24.3% Scheer
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However, Trudeau got 157 seats and Scheer 121 seats.
4.Emmanuel Macron vs Marine Le Pen (2nd round of 2017 French presidential election)
46.9% Macron - 40.2% Le Pen
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51.6% Macron - 48.4% Le Pen
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82.2% Macron - 17.8% Le Pen
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66.1% Macron - 33.9% Le Pen
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5.2016 Brexit Referendum (Yes/No for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union)
64.9% Yes - 35.1% No
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51.9% Yes - 48.1% No
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50.4% Yes - 49.6% No
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55.2% Yes - 44.8% No
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6.Best result of the Rhinoceros Party in Canada (1980), which campaigned for repelling the law of gravity, declaring the war on Belgium and banning butter
This is a fake question
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0,23% (around 16,000 votes)
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0.008% (around 1,200 votes)
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1.01% (around 110,000 votes)
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Yes. It actually happened. In 2019 they got a 0.46% of votes.
7.JFK vs Richard Nixon (1960 United States presidential election)
47.18% Kennedy - 48.65% Nixon
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48.37% Kennedy - 46.43% Nixon
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49.72% Kennedy - 49.55% Nixon
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54.01% Kennedy - 45.89% Nixon
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8.Vladimir Putin in the 2018 Russian presidential election
76.7%
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59.8%
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89.9%
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49.8%
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9.Independence as an option in the 2017 Puerto Rican status referendum.
24.8%
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44.6%
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1.5%
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97.2%
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Statehood actually won with 97.2% of the votes, but the 22.9% turnout made it useless (pro-status quo parties boycotted the referendum)
10.Faroe Islands independence referendum in 1946 (Independence vs Continued union with Denmark)
48.4% Independence - 51.6% Union
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50.7% Independence - 49.3% Union
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74.8% Independence - 25.2% Union
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17.2% Independence - 82.8% Union
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Independence was not achieved (but was declared), and it lead to new elections that non-independentist parties won.
11.Bill Clinton vs George H.W. Bush vs Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential elections.
43.0% Clinton - 37.4% Bush - 18.9% Perot
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44.5% Clinton - 40.5% Bush - 5.5% Perot
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39.5% Clinton - 26.7% Bush - 25.0% Perot
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41.1% Clinton - 19.0% Bush - 34.5% Perot
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12.Number of votes for Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympic Games in the 125th IOC Session in 2013 (in the first round).
Tokyo 38 - Rome 28 - Cape Town 22 - Stockholm 19
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Tokyo 44 - Toronto 20 - Paris 15 - Istanbul 17 - Beijing 6
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Tokyo 22 - Paris 21 - Madrid 20 - New York 19 - Moscow 15
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Tokyo 42 - Madrid 26 - Istanbul 26
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13.Angela Merkel's CDU vs Martin Schulz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2017 German federal election
49.5% Merkel - 36.8% Schulz
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40.6% Merkel - 32.5% Schulz
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32.9% Merkel - 20.5% Schulz
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49.1% Merkel - 47.8% Schulz
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14.Turnout of the 1927 Liberian general election, considered 'the most rigged ever' that Charles D.B. King officially won with 96% of votes.
135%
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99.99%
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0.005%
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Registered votes were barely 15,000 but the official results show 252,000 votes.
15.2014 Scottish independence referendum (Yes/No for Scotland to become an independente country)