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The website has information about elections and the political system, such as presidential electoral results dating back to 1789, pundit forecasts, voting history and trends by state, polling data, live updates during elections, and other information such as a lookup by zip code of elected representatives. [5]
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
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 ...
Election results are from the Associated Press (AP). Race leads are based on raw vote counts, may change as more votes are counted, and are not predictive of the eventual winner. % estimated votes counted is based on an Associated Press projection of how many total votes will be cast.
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A part of the website is the Atlas Forum, a debate and discussion chamber on U.S. and international elections and politics as well as electoral mapmaking. In March 2020, the forum was renamed "Talk Elections" with a user and moderator going by the name "Virginia" becoming the forum administrator. [3]
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election