It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College . This map shows how many votes each state gets in 2024.

Each state has two Senate seats and Michigan has 13 House seats, giving the state 15 votes in the Electoral College. Each state’s political parties choose a slate of potential electors before ...

In 48 of the 50 states, the Electoral College operates in a winner-take-all system, meaning whichever candidate wins in the popular vote in that state gets all of its electoral votes.

The Electoral College – explained 02:56. At state capitols across the U.S. Tuesday, the presidential electors will be gathering to cast their electoral votes, formalizing President-elect Donald ...

California could lose votes in the electoral college and suffer economic setbacks if President Trump's immigration crackdown ...

I’m a professor of political science who has analyzed elections in American politics. I compared the number of Electoral College votes each state has with various characteristics of the states ...

More states are signing up for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would allocate a state’s electoral votes to the national popular vote, effectively eliminating the Electoral College ...

By current polling projections, Harris is poised to win 191 ‘solid’ electoral college votes, and Trump 131. When including those states that are leaning one way, this goes up to 226 for Harris ...

The 2030 census is still years away, but early population estimates indicate that Republican-leaning states are set to ...

The Senate voted 18-16 against having Maine leave the multistate compact it joined last year pledging to give all of its ...

Though America is in its 47th presidency (with many presidents serving multiple terms), just five times has a candidate won ...