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Does the electoral vote happen before or after the popular election?
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∙ 8y ago
After. The electors are supposed to vote in accordance with the popular vote in their state (or whatever method has been specified, but in practice it amounts to "winner take all" with respect to the popular vote results in nearly every state), so it would be impossible for them to vote until the popular vote results are known.
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∙ 13y agoThe purpose of the popular vote is to determine the members of the electoral college who then meet and vote for a president.
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Is it possible for a candidate to win the popular vote across the nation but still lose the electoral vote?
Yes- this can happen and has happened- what counts is the electoral vote.1824- Andrew Jackson lead in popular vote and electoral vote- did not get a majority-- House elected John Quincy Adams as president.1876- Samuel Tilden won popular vote, Rutherford Hayes won the electoral vote and the election .1888- Grover Cleveland won popular vote, lost election to Benjamin Harrison.2000- Al Gore won the popular vote - lost to George W. Bush.
Is the president elected by the majority of the popular vote?
No the popular vote does not decide the president. the reason this is , is because the person to be elected president has to win their parties votes before they can even be a candidate. what really has to happen is they have to count each states electorial votes and the number of democratic or rpublican votes decides the president.
How have the results of the Electoral College differed from the popular?
The Electoral College is what really decides the presidency. Sadly, the Popular vote is only supposed to persuade your electoral college representative to vote for the dominant side, but in some cases that does not happen
What month did the election of 1864 happen in?
November Election Day in 1864 was November 8. The public voting part of the electoral process has been the day after the 1st Monday of November ever since 1848.
Where did the election take place?
The 1952 election was a nationwide election.
What would happen if California called back its 55 electoral votes due to election cheating?
Without California's 55 votes, in either 2008 or 2012, Barack Obama and Joe Biden would still have the required absolute majority of electoral votes. The removal of California's votes would not have changed the outcome of the 2004 election, the first election in which California had 55 votes, either.
What is the highest percentage of the popular vote a presidential candidate can win yet still lose the election mathematically?
Theoretically, in the US, a candidate could win over 99% of the popular vote and lose the presidential election by winning 100% of the vote in states adding up to 268 electoral votes and lose the rest of the states (worth 270 electoral votes) by only a fraction of one percent, but realistically this would never happen since it is rare for most states to vote stronger than 70-30 in favor of either candidate, and most states are usually much closer than that.In reality, winning the popular vote and losing the electoral college only happens when the candidates are very close in the popular vote, such as in the 2000 election where Gore won the popular vote by around a half of a percent and Bush won the electoral college. I remember reading on a political site, fivethirtyeight.com, that anywhere up to a four percent win in the popular vote is where that situation has a realistic chance of occurring.Hope this answers your question.
Who formally chooses the president?
The body that has the power to elect the President of the United States is the electoral college. Usually the electoral college will cast their votes in the same manner as the popular vote was. This doesn't always happen. In the election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, Al Gore won the popular vote but the electoral college elected George W. Bush.
Who determines the outcome of a presidential vote tie?
In the electoral college, there are 538 electors (or electoral votes), with at least 270 needed to win the presidential election. Although highly unlikely, it is possible that the electoral votes could be tied 269-269. If this were to happen, the vote would then go to Congress. It would be the duty of The House of Representatives to break the tie for the presidential election, and the duty of the Senate to break the tie for the vice presidential position.
What was the scandal of the election of 1824?
None of the presidential election candidates received more than half of all electoral votes in 1824. Whenever that happens, the task of electing the President goes to the House of Representatives. They did not elect the person who received the most popular votes AND the most electoral votes. Although their action did not reflect the will of the people, it's perfectly legal. And the same laws are still in effect, so the same thing could happen again the next time we have a VERY strong third party candidate.
What would happen if McCain died before election or if God forbid he won and died before swearing in?
Then Palin would be our president
How can a candidate win electoral votes with out the popular vote?
The popular vote and the electoral vote are two completely different things. The presidency is decided solely on who wins the electoral vote, and the popular vote is only good for giving us an idea of who is going to win the presidency. The larger the state the more votes they have in the electoral college, so if a president can win the majority of the large states electoral votes and a few smaller states they can gain the majority they need to win the presidency. In fact, if a president only needs to win the votes for the 11 largest states and they can win the presidency without a vote from the other 39 states.
