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Unlike simple congressional district comparisons, the district plan popular vote bonus in the 2008 election would have given Obama 56% of the Electoral College versus the 68% he did win; it "would have more closely approximated the percentage of the popular vote won [53%]". [222]
The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. It is sorted to display elections by their presidential term/year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.
Trump won 232 electoral votes in the 2020 Presidential Election. His opponent and current President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes . Here's how the Electoral College voted by state:
Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote, compared to Trump's 232 electoral votes and 46.8% of the popular vote. Biden won every state that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election , as well as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and ...
Here are seven charts and maps that explain how the US popular vote, turnout in individual states and ultimately turnout in the seven key battleground states – where electoral votes were up for ...
The 2020 census population counts announced this week will result in 13 states seeing a change in their number of votes in the Electoral College, the body that formally elects the president.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, and vice president Mike Pence. [9]
The Electoral College, which was first created in 1787 by the Founding Fathers, was created as a compromise between picking a president through the popular vote or through Congress. It's meant to ...