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December 22, 2000 

WASHINGTON--- Vice President Al Gore won the U.S. popular vote in the presidential election by more than 500,000 votes, according to official totals made available Thursday to The Associated Press.

The presidency is not decided by the popular vote but by electoral votes, with each state given at least three electoral votes and additional votes based on its population. Winning a state, even by the smallest of margins, generally entitles a candidate to all of that state's electoral votes.

The AP survey of all 50 states' final election numbers showed that Democrat Gore led President-elect George W. Bush, the former Republican governor of Texas, by 539,947 votes.

Final numbers show Gore with 50,996,116 votes and Bush with 50,456,169.

The popular vote total includes all absentee ballots that were counted in the weeks following the Nov. 7 election.

Bush won the White House by capturing 271 electoral votes, one more than the Constitution requires.

Bush will become the fourth president in U.S. history to have won the election while gaining fewer votes overall than his opponent; this happened last in 1888. Many critics have suggested that this year's results show that the U.S. presidential election should be changed to a direct vote.