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This brought Brown's number of electoral votes for vice president to 47 since he still received all 28 electoral votes from Maryland, Tennessee, and Texas, and 16 other electoral votes from Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri in total. The other 19 electors from the latter states voted faithlessly for vice president. [166]
Generally, states award all their electoral college votes to whoever wins the poll of ordinary voters in the state. For example, if a candidate wins 50.1% of the vote in Texas, they are given all ...
This means that one electoral vote in Wyoming, the least-populous state, represents about 192,000 people, while one vote in Texas, one of the most underrepresented states, represents about 730,000 ...
On Jan. 6, Congress meets to count the electoral votes and certify victory for the candidate who has received at least 270. If no presidential candidate gets 270 votes, then Congress will elect ...
The electoral college was replaced after the 1962 referendum, with direct elections by popular vote, using a two-round system since 1965. Finland had an electoral college for the country's president from 1925 to 1988, except 1944 (exception law), 1946 and 1973 (extended term by exception law).
Electoral votes by state/federal district for the elections of 2012, 2016, and 2020, with apportionment changes between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The following is a summary of the electoral vote changes between United States presidential elections.
The largest state, California, gets 54 Electoral College votes. Although Washington, D.C. does not have any members of Congress, it still receives three Electoral College votes. How many Electoral ...
Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the president in a contingent election, in the 1824 election as none of the four candidates won an absolute majority (131 votes required at the time) of electoral votes: Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams (son of John Adams) 84, William H. Crawford 41, and ...