Forty-eight states have a winner-take-all system where the winner of the state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska are the only states with a split ...

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.

Candidates who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College are John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, George W. Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016.

Most states use a winner-take-all method, meaning the candidate who receives the most votes gets all the state's electors. There are 538 electors, meaning 270 electoral votes are needed to be elected.

George W Bush won in Florida by just 537 votes, meaning he had more Electoral College votes and seized the White House. More about US elections 2016 Donald Trump Hillary Clinton electoral college ...

In total, there are 538 electoral votes, meaning that earning 270 or more means a candidate has won the presidential election.

Rather than allotting all the state's electoral points to the winner of the statewide popular vote, some of their electoral votes are split up between Maine’s two and Nebraska’s three ...

California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the ...

In the Electoral College, "faithless electors" don't vote according to the statewide or district popular vote. Here's what that means for 2020.

• The electoral college vote tally is already known — 306 for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump — but the electoral votes will be officially counted in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.

There are 538 electoral votes in total, meaning a candidate needs 270 of those electoral votes to win. How many electoral votes does Wisconsin have? Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes.