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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
Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election , the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit margins, the longest streak of close-election results since states began popularly electing ...
Post Election Team November 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM More than 155 million Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election, the highest proportion of the voting-eligible population to participate ...
Donald Trump is returning to the White House as voters handed him a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The race was called early Wednesday ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Editor's note: This page reflects the news on the campaign trail for the 2024 election Tuesday, Nov. 5. For the latest news and results from the presidential election, read USA TODAY's live ...
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.
An outlier in presidential races, the 2000 election between former Vice President Al Gore and then-Texas Gov. George Bush was not decided until Dec. 12, 2000, five weeks after Election Day.