Popular Vote in the USA

D. Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican Party nominee against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote.
In United States presidential elections it connotes the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., as distinguished from the electoral college vote which decides the outcome. 
See also the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact 
::* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election