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How is the president chosen if no candidate wins the required amount of electoral votes in an election?
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The House of Representatives elects the President in this case. There is a special procedure for doing this specified in the Constitution.
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How many electoral votes were needed to become president in 1840?
In the 1840 US Presidential election, a total of 148electoral votes were required to secure election as President. The victor, Whig candidate William Harrison, was elected with 234 - a majority of 174 and 86 more than was required to win.
Who received the most electoral college votes in the election of 2012?
Democratic Party candidate incumbent President Barack Obama won reelection in the 2012 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney. In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 65,446,032 and Romney 60,589,084.
What margin is required to choose the president?
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.
What if neither get the required number of minimum votes?
If no candidate in a presidential election has the majority of electoral votes than the members of the house of representatives vote to choose which one of them will be the next president. This is in Article II Section I of the Constitution.
Can the house of representatives choose a vice president if no candidate receives the number of electoral votes needed to be elected?
No, the House of Representatives does not have the power to choose the Vice President. According to the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if no candidate receives the required number of electoral votes to be elected as Vice President, the election moves to the Senate, where they select the Vice President from the two candidates with the highest number of electoral votes.
Who will elect a vice president if no candidate for vice president obtains the required number of Electoral College votes?
In this case, the US Senate elects the vice-president.
How did ruther b Hayes become president?
The election of Rutherford B. Hayes was the most contentious presidential election in US history. He was actually chosen by the US House of Representatives rather than by popular vote. No candidate received the required number of electoral votes.
How do you get elected to be president?
Although each state holds presidential elections every 4 years, the actual "election" is held about a month later by the "Electoral College". The results from the "General Election" are generally transferred through the Electoral College, but the "Delegates" are not required to vote as their state did. The candidate with 270 Electoral Votes becomes president. Although the state by state elections are based on "Popular Vote", the actual election is solely based on the Electoral College. I.E. 2000, Gore v. Bush (Gore won the National Popular Vote while G. W. Bush won the Electoral Vote).
Can a presidential candidate still win the election even if he loses the electoral college election?
Yes; it happened in 1824. A candidate must have over 50% of the electoral votes to win the electoral college election. Ever since the Election of 1964, that "magic number" has been 270. When nobody has that many, the electoral college no longer has anything to do with the election; the House of Representatives gets the job of electing the President. When that happens, each state gets only one vote, so although there are 435 House Members, no more than 50 votes are cast. The reason that happened in 1824 is that the 3rd- and 4th-place finishers received a total of 30% of the votes. Andrew Jackson had the most popular votes AND the most electoral votes (38%), but the House elected John Quincy Adams President. (Jackson beat Adams four years later.) If no Vice-Presidential candidate has more than 50% of the electoral votes, the Senate elects the Vice President. That happened in 1836, but it wasn't controversial like the 1824 election. The Senate elected the man who was just one vote shy of the required minimum electoral votes.
What happens if the number of electoral votes are not reached?
The required number is more than half of the total. If no candidate gets this required majority, the House of Representatives chooses the president from among the top three candidates using a special procedure in which each state gets one vote.
What election did no candidate win majority?
In 1824 four candidates received electoral votes and no candidate got the majority required to be elected, so the House decided the election. (In 1800 Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr tied in electoral vote because at that time, each elector had two votes. This situation was changed by the 12th amendment.)
What determines the candidate the electors vote for in the electoral college?
Electoral college is actually the means which officially determines the election of the President and Vice President--if the votes are more than 50% for a single candidate for each office. They are actual people selected by the voters of the individual states; they are "pledged" to vote for a slate of President/Vice President, but they are not legally required to do so (and, in the case of death or disability, would be empowered to vote for someone else). They are "elected" for this single purpose, and electors for the major party candidates are usually chosen from among party loyalists in their respective states. If they don't get 50% in their balloting, the decision of electing the President goes to the House and the Electoral College is released from further duty.
