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  2. 2025 United States Electoral College vote count - Wikipedia

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    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 Kamala Harris.

  3. What is the Electoral College and why is 270 so important?

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    The victor is the first to win a majority of electors, the so-called magic number of 270. ... who ended up winning the election with 271 electoral votes. ... when four candidates ran for president ...

  4. How does the electoral college work?

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    To become president, a candidate must win 270 electoral votes. A president can win the electoral college without winning the popular vote. This has happened four times in U.S. history, twice in ...

  5. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    If no candidate for president receives an absolute majority of the electoral votes (since 1964, 270 of the 538 electoral votes), then the Twelfth Amendment requires the House of Representatives to go into session immediately to choose a president. In this event, the House of Representatives is limited to choosing from among the three candidates ...

  6. The road to the White House is through the Electoral College ...

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    Nationally, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, or electors, meaning a candidate needs to secure 270 to win. In 2020, President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to defeat Trump, who had 232 ...

  7. United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, a candidate can win the electoral vote without securing the greatest amount of the national popular vote, such as during the 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 elections. It would even be possible in theory to secure the necessary 270 electoral votes from only the twelve most populous states [a] and ignore the rest of the country.

  8. Why Do We Have the Electoral College? CNN's John King ...

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    Five hundred and thirty-eight Electoral College votes will soon be divided between this year's presidential nominees, and for CNN’s John King, the countdown is on.. The network’s chief ...

  9. List of United States presidential elections by Electoral ...

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    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 ...