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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 ...
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.
1932 – Franklin D. Roosevelt received 472 (88.9%) of the electoral votes while Herbert Hoover received only 59 (11.1%). 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.5%) of the electoral votes—the largest share since 1820 and the largest in a non-unanimous election—while Alf Landon received only 8 (1.5%). Additionally, Roosevelt ...
That’s the largest victory since 2012 when then-incumbent President Barack Obama notched 332 to 206. For context, Trump’s 2016 victory was 304 to 227. Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232.
Who won the popular vote in 2024? As of 1:51 p.m. ET on Nov. 6, Trump had 71,790,131 popular votes and Harris had 66,985,924. Trump currently leads Harris by approximately 4.8 million votes. Who ...
With 99% of votes counted as of 7:30 a.m., Harris is at 64.4% of the vote, or 235,689 votes cast for her. Trump has 119,349 votes. He won Vermont's northeastern counties, Essex and Orleans.
These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states; in the case of Florida (4 votes), Louisiana (8 votes), and South Carolina (7 votes), each party reported its candidate had won the state. In Oregon, one elector was declared illegal (as an "elected or appointed official") and replaced. The question of who should have been awarded these 20 ...
Trump is awarded 10 electoral votes, and the state pushes him over the 270 threshold needed to win a presidential election. Trump won the state in 2016, a stunning upset after he became the first ...