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The following is a summary of the electoral vote changes between United States presidential elections. It summarizes the changes in the Electoral College vote by comparing United States presidential election results for a given year with those from the immediate preceding election.
The number of electoral votes each state gets can change after the census every 10 years. It is tied to the number of House members plus two senators each state has in Congress.
Since the mid-19th century, when all electors have been popularly chosen, the Electoral College has elected the candidate who received the most (though not necessarily a majority) popular votes nationwide, except in four elections: 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. A case has also been made that it happened in 1960.
Under the Electoral College, it is always possible that the winner of the popular vote will not be elected. This has already happened in three elections, 1824, 1876, and 1888. In the last election, the result could have been changed by a small shift of votes in Ohio and Hawaii, despite a popular vote difference of 1.7 million.
Those in favor of the Electoral College generally note its written into the nation's founding document and has largely worked since then. "Many aspects of the Constitution have not been changed ...
The electoral votes from the states will be certified on Jan. 6 during a joint session of Congress.And Trump will be inaugurated as president two weeks later, on Jan. 20. The political parties in ...
However, the same effect could be achieved if the Electoral College representatives from states with a majority of the electoral votes were all committed to voting for the presidential slate that achieves a national plurality (or the majority after instant-runoff voting): Presidential candidates would then have to compete for votes in all 50 ...
The effort to prevent the certification of Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021, was legally possible because of loopholes in the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that some Republicans exploited ...