there are 6,400,000 people in Indiana... assuming all of them vote and there are only two candidates, one would need more than 3,200,000 votes to win.
I didn't take into account children under 18 who can't vote so my answer is a bit off.
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to be declared President of the United States. Indiana has 11 electoral votes.
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280.
More than 300 votes.
To be declared the winner, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral college 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 win the presidency. However, if neither candidate reaches this threshold, the election is thrown to the House of Representatives and they vote (1 vote per state) to decide who becomes president.
270 electoral votes
they don't have to get a certain amount they just have to have more than every body else
Candidates need a majority of electoral votes to be elected. Because most states* award all of their electoral votes to the top candidate in that state, candidates do not need to win the national popular vote to win a majority of electoral votes. The result is that winning a few large population states (called swing states), even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. In 1876, 1888, and 2000, the winning candidate did not get the most popular votes nationwide.
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.