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The state of Hawaii has 4 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. [1] Hawaii is a Pacific island state with its own unique culture separated from the mainland and is plurality-Asian American.
Hawaii is a state in the Western United States located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres) from the U.S. mainland. [1] Since its admission to the Union in August 1959, [2] [3] it has participated in 16 United States presidential elections.
The Electoral College system was established by Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution, drafted in 1787. [95] [96] It "has been a source of discontent for more than 200 years." [97] Over 700 proposals to reform or eliminate the system have been introduced in Congress, [98] making it one of the most popular topics of constitutional reform.
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 ...
More than 150 million Americans cast ballots for president in November, but it’s 538 electors who actually elect the president when they meet in state capitols every four years.
Hawaii has four electoral votes in the Electoral College. [3] Hawaii was the first state in the 2020 election cycle to exceed the voter turnout in 2016, causing the state to attract attention as a representation of an overall trend in increased early voting during the general election. [4]
Democrats, including vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, are questioning the Electoral College, arguing that it is undemocratic and prefer a pure democracy that elects the president by a ...
The 1960 presidential election in Hawaii was held on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. This was the first presidential election in which Hawaii participated; the state had been admitted to the Union just over a year earlier.