Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Voters in each state decide how their state's electors will vote. Most states are winner-take-all: whoever wins in California earns all 55 of its electoral college votes.
The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama won in 2012 switched to Trump (Electoral College votes in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and ...
USA TODAY's live stream coverage will begin around 7 p.m. ET with swing state watch parties, live race calls and feeds from the presidential candidates' election night headquarters.
The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial presidential election. The electoral vote distribution was determined by the 2010 census from which presidential electors electing the president and vice president were chosen; a simple majority (270) of the 538 electoral votes were required to win.
Seventeen major candidates were listed in major independent nationwide polls and filed as candidates with the Federal Election Commission. [citation needed] A total of 2,472 delegates attended the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the winning candidate needed a simple majority of 1,237 votes to become the Republican nominee.
American history was changed forever in November 2016 when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump took 30 states as the Republican ...
Election 2016 Presidential Primaries See which candidates lead the pack for their party’s nomination, look up election dates and watch live updates on election nights.
That summer, 17 major candidates were recognized by national and state polls, making it the largest presidential candidate field for any single political party in American history. [2] The large field made possible the fact that the 2016 primaries were the first since 1968 (and the first in which every state held a contest) in which more than ...