The Electoral College consists of 538 electoral votes, which are distributed amongst each state based on the number of congressional members. Washington, D.C. also has three electoral votes.

The Electoral College is used to choose the winner of the presidential election, but the number of votes in the College that ...

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine Democrats have put forward a proposal to no longer award the state’s Electoral ...

(Map last updated: January 31, 2012) Safe/likely Democratic states (total electoral votes: 196) Safe/likely Republican states (total electoral votes: 159) ...

We hear the words, “I don’t vote because it won’t count.” Every United States citizen has the right to vote to preserve our democracy, and has a right to feel that their vote counts. How your vote for ...

On Monday, the 538 members of the Electoral College met in their respective states to cast votes to confirm Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. But this year, the presidential ...

Trump’s 2024 victory was not a big win, as he won the popular vote by only 1.5 percent and did not win a majority of the vote, and he only won one of the swing states’ Senate races, ...

One Electoral College vote goes to whichever candidate wins each district, with another two going to the overall state winner, for a total of five. Changing to a winner-takes-all system would ...

Meeting in their home states, electors would find it difficult to collude or buy and sell votes. A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the ...

Nebraska is currently one of two states that allocate some of their Electoral College votes by congressional district, which has meant three Democratic presidential candidates have won a single ...

CNN Electoral Map. The map below displays CNN's best estimate of the key states that will likely decide the 2012 presidential election. Determining what qualifies as a battlegroun ...