No, they only need to have a majority in electoral votes to win.
majority on electoral votes
No the next president is decided by the amount of electoral votes the candidate gets. They need to have so many electoral votes to win the elections.
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to be declared President of the United States. Indiana has 11 electoral votes.
270 electoral votes
To become president they need 265 electoral votes.
To be declared the winner, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral college votes.
It doesn't work that way. The electoral votes are the final vote for president. The popular vote will either go for one party deciding who the electoral votes go to.
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270 electoral votes.
The winning candidate has to have a simple majority of votes from the electoral college. In other words, the candidate will only need to win by ONE electoral vote to become the president. He must receive a simple majority of the 535 votes in the electoral college.
In order to become president, one needs 270 electoral votes. Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes, while Mitt Romney only received 206.
It depends on what country or organisation you are electing a President of. USA or Bootle Golf Club?