--- title: Hillary Clinton Has 1.7 Million Popular Vote Lead Over Trump description: Supporters of Clinton have called for the end of the Electoral College canonical: https://time.com/4578910/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-trump/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-21T19:17:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:56:54.565Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton won more votes than Trump og:description: 1.7 million more, according to the latest count og:url: https://time.com/4578910/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01d578636f6e5ce/6988af4f428a9eabe9cd513d/gettyimages-623720974.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Honored At Children's Defense Fund Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton won more votes than Trump twitter:description: 1.7 million more, according to the latest count twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01d578636f6e5ce/6988af4f428a9eabe9cd513d/gettyimages-623720974.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Got 1.7 Million More Votes Than Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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Former Secretary of State and former Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers remarks while being honored during the Children's Defense Fund's Beat the Odds Celebration at the Newseum in Washington on Nov. 16, 2016. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 21, 2016 7:17 PM UTC Hillary Clinton may have ultimately lost the race for the White House, but the latest popular vote tally shows the Democratic presidential candidate won [1.7 million more votes than president-elect Donald Trump](http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174). Clinton was shown to have won the popular vote in the immediate aftermath of the election, though Trump managed to win more Electoral College votes and thus the presidency. In the days since the election, some Democrats have called for the Electoral College to be abolished, but as [TIME has reported](http://time.com/4573821/electoral-college-popular-vote-campaigns/), without the Electoral College, presidential elections would be radically altered. A [Moveon.org petition](http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/abolish-the-electoral-6) calling for an end to the Electoral College currently has over 572,000 signatures. A count from Cook Political report also shows that more votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election than in 2012, when President Obama faced former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. 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