Hillary Clinton. Mike Segar/Reuters Despite losing in the Electoral College to Donald Trump, and therefore losing the presidency, Hillary Clinton looks on track to win the popular vote in Tuesday's presidential election.

Clinton led by more than 200,000 votes as of 4:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, with votes still to be counted in California and Washington, two Democratic strongholds, as well as Oregon and Colorado, two states Clinton was projected to win.

The New York Times projects that once those votes are counted Clinton will have won the popular vote by more than 1 percentage point. That margin of victory in the popular vote would be higher than Al Gore's in 2000.

In the Electoral College, Trump looked as if he might hit 300 votes, easily outpacing Clinton.

The presidency has been won only four times by a candidate who lost the popular vote: George W. Bush in 2000, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, and John Quincy Adams in 1824.