purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The number of electoral votes a state...

with votes weighted in a particular way. The United States has been the only constitutional republic in the 21st century that still uses an electoral college...

the electoral college returns gave Jackson only 99 votes, 32 fewer than he needed for a majority of the total votes cast. Adams won 84 electoral votes, followed...

Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever...

fifty percent of the electoral vote is an entirely open issue.": 653  For example, if there are currently 538 total votes, and all votes from a state that...

Spotted Eagle in 2016 are the only women to receive electoral votes for president; Spotted Eagle's single vote was from a faithless elector, and she was also...

An electoral or voting system is a set of rules used to determine the results of an election. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments...

†Trump received 36 of Texas's 38 electoral votes, while two faithless electors voted for other candidates Electoral votes of the party that won in 2020:...

day. Electoral votes for Maine and Nebraska are allocated between statewide vote and congressional districts. With Vermont's 3 electoral votes, Joe Biden...

an additional two electoral votes. In states that employ FPTP-GT, the presidential candidate gaining the greatest number of votes wins all the state's...

citizens who are registered to vote cast ballots for members of the Electoral College, who then cast electoral votes for president and vice president...

plan to allocate the electoral votes proportional to the popular vote. The amendment would have kept the states' electoral votes but eliminated electors...

won the Electoral College; the election was thrown to the Congress, which chose John Quincy Adams. The following list indicates lifetime votes received...

direct votes, known as electoral votes, for president, and for vice president. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes (at least...

polls on the state level, thus simulating the process by which Electoral College votes are determined in the actual election. Updated throughout the campaign...

elections; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College. The Electoral College's electors...

supplied by voting stations would allow votes to be erased their votes from the ballot. All voting systems face threats of some form of electoral fraud. The...

of these states have relatively few electoral votes – a total of 4 and 5, respectively. Nebraska has split its votes since 1992, and Maine has done so since...

Electoral College votes, and then, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, opens the sealed votes. The Electoral Count Act of 1887...

electoral votes Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, 2.24% (6,534 votes) – 1 electoral vote Nevada, 2.42% (27,202 votes) – 6 electoral votes Maine, 2...

votes) – 1 electoral vote Ohio, 8.03% (475,669 votes) – 18 electoral votes Iowa, 8.20% (138,611 votes) – 6 electoral votes Maine, 9.07% (74,335 votes)...

the general election, with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a...

received all but one of the electoral votes. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams received the only other electoral vote, which came from faithless elector...

cast one vote for Washington, making his election unanimous. Adams won 34 electoral votes and the vice presidency. The remaining 35 electoral votes were split...

set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. It also amended the Presidential...

received one electoral vote from a faithless elector. In 1972 in Arizona, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both...

popular vote or the electoral vote. Prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes, with...

receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote. However, Nixon...

place on a Sunday. Mail votes are possible upon application. Germans elect their members of parliament with two votes. The first vote is for a direct candidate...

Constitution, each member of the Electoral College cast two electoral votes, with no distinction between electoral votes for president or for vice president...