The Electoral College is made up of 538 delegates: people who cast the votes that formally elect the president. How does voting for the Electoral College work?

That included spicing up lessons about the Electoral College. "It’s one of those topics that’s fun to teach," Humphries said. “But it’s really hard to teach.

How does the Electoral College affect presidential elections? There have been six presidential elections in this century: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

The Electoral College is a 538-member body that elects a president. The framers of the Constitution set it up to give more power to the states and as a compromise to avoid having Congress decide ...

The Electoral College is made up of 538 elected members, one for each US senator and US representative, plus three for Washington, DC. A presidential candidate needs to win a simple majority of ...

What is the Electoral College? As America votes in the 2020 election, voters may be wondering how it works, why we have it, and where the magic number 270 comes from.

A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds up their phone to display the Electoral College map, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. | AP Photo/John Minchillo By Zach Montellaro 11/19/2020 ...

Come Election Day, Americans could be in for yet another surprise: a tie. While the odds of it happening are very slim, an Electoral College tie is entirely possible, particularly in competitive ...

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.

For example, Texas has a population of 25 million and is afforded 38 Electoral College votes, while Delaware has a population of 936,000 and has only three votes.

Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris' 226. See state-by-state results here and below. Nationally, Trump also won the popular vote, winning 77.2 million votes to Harris' 75 million.