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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 ...
† Jackson received only 3 of Louisiana's 5 electoral votes in the 1824 election. ‡ Jackson received only 1 of Maine's 9 electoral votes in the 1828 election. ↑ Jackson received 1 of New York's 36 electoral votes in 1824 and 20 of 26 in 1828. ↓ Jackson received 7 of Maryland's 11 electoral votes in 1824 and 5 of 11 in 1828.
The Electoral College's electors then formally elect the president and vice president. [2] [3] The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1804) provides the procedure by which the president and vice president are elected; electors vote separately for each office. Previously, electors cast two votes for president, and the winner ...
In 2020, President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to defeat Trump, who had 232 electoral votes. The system, mandated by the U.S. Constitution, was a compromise between the nation's founders ...
His opponent, Vice President Harris, only garnered 226 electoral votes. Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. In addition to Arizona, he ...
Trump won the popular vote in Louisiana 1,208,269 votes to 766,424 votes for Vice President Kamala Harris, carrying 60% of the share. ... Louisiana’s eight electoral votes were never in doubt ...
Won the popular vote and received the most electoral votes, but lost the electoral college majority and contingent election. [c] John St. John: 1884: Prohibition: 147,482 1.50% Third-party candidate. Alson Streeter: 1888: Union Labor: 146,602 1.31% Third-party candidate. Hugh Lawson White: 1836: Whig: 146,109 9.7%
The number of electoral votes each state gets can change after the census every 10 years. It is tied to the number of House members plus two senators each state has in Congress.