Electoral College in a sentence

Every state has a set number of electoral college votes and, with a couple of exceptions, the candidate winning a popular majority of votes in each state then gets assigned all that state’s electoral college votes.

Florida, the most influential swing state with 29 Electoral College votes, and Pennsylvania, holding 20 Electoral College votes, are two states considered to be must-wins for Trump to secure another term.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball would have needed to flip 38 additional Electoral College votes to reach 270, thereby winning a majority in the Electoral College.

The Associated Press news agency said late Thursday that Biden had secured Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes, stretching his lead to 306 Electoral College votes compared to US President Donald Trump’s 232.

Electoral College under the Twelfth Amendment While the Twelfth Amendment did not change the composition of the Electoral College or the duties of the electors, it did change the process whereby a President and a Vice President are elected.

But the outcome of the election is determined in the Electoral College, where each state's electoral votes, based largely on population, are typically awarded to the winner of a state's popular vote.

Trump still only makes it to 268 electoral votes, while Biden ends up at 270, the exact amount needed to win the electoral college.

The compact is a way for Oregon to the electoral college in the future by pledging to give all seven electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote.

The Electoral College is like the rest of the Constitution in that it treats the as the essential political unit of our electoral system.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 A majority of electoral votes is still required for a person to be elected President or Vice President by the Electoral College.

As the electoral college had increased during Madison's first term, but held steady throughout Wilson's, Wilson was also the first of only three presidents to receive fewer total electoral votes.

Clinton received 379, or over 70 percent of the Electoral College votes, with Dole receiving 159 electoral votes.

Generally, the ticket that wins the most votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes and thus has its slate of electors chosen to vote in the Electoral College.

In the electoral college, however, Garfield's victory was decisive; he won nearly all of the populous Northern states to achieve a majority of 214 electoral votes to 155 for Hancock.

Notwithstanding electoral defeat, Callaghan stayed on as Labour leader until 15 October 1980, shortly after the party conference had voted for a new system of election by electoral college involving the individual members and trade unions.

Preselection of electoral candidates is performed by a special electoral college convened for the purpose.

State law regulates most aspects of electoral law, including primaries, the eligibility of voters (beyond the basic constitutional definition), the running of each state's electoral college, and the running of state and local elections.

These two states were important because if Nixon had carried both, he would have earned 270 electoral votes, one more than the 269 needed to win the majority in the Electoral College and the presidency.

While Jackson won a plurality in the electoral college and popular vote, he did not win the constitutionally required majority of electoral votes to be elected president.

A Republican presidential candidate has claimed he is "steps away" from "effectively" denying Donald Trump the ability to gain the 270 electoral college votes necessary to win the 2024 election, despite legal doubts being cast on his challenge.