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So close was the popular vote that a shift of 18,838 votes in Illinois and Missouri, both won by Kennedy by less than 1%, would have left both Kennedy and Nixon short of the 269 electoral votes required to win, thus forcing a contingent election in the House of Representatives.
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 ...
This brought Brown's number of electoral votes for vice president to 47 since he still received all 28 electoral votes from Maryland, Tennessee, and Texas, and 16 other electoral votes from Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri in total. The other 19 electors from the latter states voted faithlessly for vice president. [166]
The system has been around since the first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes. ... In the unlikely event that there is a 269 to 269 tie in the Electoral College, a ...
If there is a tie, with two candidates receiving 269 electoral votes, or a third-party candidate secures enough electoral votes to prevent either the Democratic or Republican candidate from ...
To win, a candidate needed 131 electoral votes out of 261, but every contender fell short of that mark: General Andrew Jackson won 99 electoral votes, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams captured ...
Theodore H. White wrote that Kennedy's campaign was focused on winning New York, Pennsylvania, California, Michigan, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, and Massachusetts as those states held 237 of the 269 electoral votes required to win the election. The remainder would come from southern, New England, or midwestern states.
Explainer: If no one gets 270 electoral votes, ... College map that could lead to former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris ending the race tied at 269 electoral votes. ...