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This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...
Thus it is possible for the winner of the popular vote to end up losing the election, an outcome that has occurred on five occasions, most recently in the 2016 election. This is because presidential elections are indirect elections; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College ...
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 2016 campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was the 13th closest in the country's history, but doesn't crack the top 10. The 10 closest presidential elections in U.S. history Skip ...
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
Closest elections in US history The contest between Harris and Trump is remarkably close, with polls showing razor-thin margins in key swing states. A nail-biter of a race is hardly new, though.
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...
1976 Election Results: PDF, scanned, some pages upside down 2006 Election Results Publication: Excel California: 1990 Statement of the Vote: PDF, scanned, fonts uneven/broken 2010 Statement of the Vote: PDF from digital original 2012 election results for news media: Election Markup Language format [9] Colorado: 2010 Abstract of Votes Cast