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The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, on January 6–7, 2021, was held as the final step to confirm then President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election over incumbent President Donald Trump.
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 ...
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 119th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act and Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, on January 6, 2025, was held as the final step that confirmed President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris.
His opponent, Vice President Harris, only garnered 226 electoral votes. Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. In addition to Arizona, he ...
Trump won four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes in that state’s split electoral vote count and also won one electoral vote in Maine. Media outlets made their projections for each state’s ...
Trump won the Volunteer State's 11 electoral votes by a wide margin: 62% of the votes. There were 1,964,499 votes counted for Trump in Tennessee. In 2020, Trump won Tennessee by 60.7%.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
In the 2000 presidential election, Barbara Lett-Simmons, an elector from the district, left her ballot blank to protest its lack of voting representation in Congress. As a result, Al Gore received only two of the three electoral votes from Washington, D.C. [4] In 2016, 85.7% of the registered voters approved a statehood referendum. [5]