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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]
Each elector represents one vote in the Electoral College. In 2020, President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to defeat Trump, who had 232 electoral votes.
The electoral college was replaced after the 1962 referendum, with direct elections by popular vote, using a two-round system since 1965. Finland had an electoral college for the country's president from 1925 to 1988 , except 1944 (exception law), 1946 ( parliament ) and 1973 (extended term by exception law).
Generally, states award all their electoral college votes to whoever wins the poll of ordinary voters in the state. For example, if a candidate wins 50.1% of the vote in Texas, they are given all ...
The largest state, California, gets 54 Electoral College votes. Although Washington, D.C. does not have any members of Congress, it still receives three Electoral College votes.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
If neither candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, or in the event of a 269-269 tie, the Electoral College hands the deciding vote over to Congress. In 1824, when four candidates ran for ...
However, two states — Maine and Nebraska — have a proportional representation electoral college. Both states award two electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote, and then one ...