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The Electoral College is how the president of the United States is elected. In the U.S., there are 538 votes up for grabs between all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The largest state, California, gets 54 Electoral College votes. Although Washington, D.C. does not have any members of Congress, it still receives three Electoral College votes.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. Even when neither captured the popular vote. The Electoral College is the ...
The Electoral College – explained Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College to elect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House.
The Electoral College has received a lot of attention of late, leading many to question why it exists — and what it would take to remove it. In two of the six presidential elections conducted ...
Trump easily carried the Electoral College in 2016 despite getting fewer votes overall, taking it 304-227 over Clinton. 2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE ...
Colombia was first, adopting its own electoral college in 1821, followed by Chile (1828), and Argentina (1853), Finland (1925), and France (1958).
The Electoral College was established in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention, when there were just 13 states forming a union—the original colonies that declared independence from Britain.