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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]
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.
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 Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...
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 ...
Historically Democratic strongholds like California and New York stayed as such in 2016, though, where voters selected Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate of choice at a near 2-to-1 ...
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The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols. The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 9 were pledged for Trump/Pence. Glenn McCall; Matt Moore; Terry Hardesty; Jim Ulmer; Brenda Bedenbaugh; Bill Conley ...