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The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.
Previously, electors cast two votes for president, and the winner and runner up became president and vice-president respectively. The appointment of electors is a matter for each state's legislature to determine; in 1872 and in every presidential election since 1880, all states have used a popular vote to do so.
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 ...
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Here are the states that voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election that Trump won on Tuesday, or is leading the race in the states that have not been called as of Wednesday morning ...
[6] [7] Hawaii was the only state among the cancelled races to officially appoint their pledged delegates immediately to incumbent President Donald Trump in 2019. [3] Donald Trump's over 18 million votes he received in the Republican Primary is the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.
States generally require electors to pledge to vote for that state's winning ticket; to avoid faithless electors, most states have adopted various laws to enforce the electors' pledge. [8] The "national popular vote" is the sum of all the votes cast in the general election, nationwide.