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This is a list of members of the Electoral College, known as "electors", who cast ballots to elect the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. [1]
Lichtenstein's article soon went viral, and on December 5, 2016, several members of the electoral college, seven from the Democratic Party [20] and one from the Republican Party, [21] publicly stated their intention to vote for a candidate other than the pledged nominees at the Electoral College vote on December 19, 2016.
Then-incumbent President Barack Obama casts his vote early in Chicago on October 7, 2016. The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, while Republicans retained control of Congress.
Trump won the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes, though he lost the popular vote by almost 2.9 million votes. The result was a shock as Clinton was considered a heavy favorite to take the ...
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.
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Watch meetings of the Electoral College as state electors cast votes for president and vice president.
Altogether, 23,529 electors have taken part in the Electoral College as of the 2016 election. Only 165 electors have cast votes for someone other than their party's nominee. Of that group, 71 did so because the nominee had died – 63 Democratic Party electors in 1872 , when presidential nominee Horace Greeley died; and eight Republican Party ...