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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.
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∙ 12y agoThe total popular vote has no effect on the election. The popular vote in each state determines which slate of electors will cast that state's electoral vote. In 48 states, the popular vote winner of the state, gets all of the electoral votes of the state. Nebraska and Maine allow its votes to be split in proportion to the vote totals.
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∙ 12y agoNo. The voters actual elect delegates (electors to the electoral college) that actually elect the president. Each state has a set number of delegates. During the election, the candidate who gets the most votes in a state gets those delegates. However, the delegates are not bound to vote for the candidate who won the majority of the votes. It is actually possible for a presidential candidate to win the popular vote, but lose the election because the delegates elected the other candidate.
The intent of this system was to prevent a few large, highly populated states from electing a president with little or no support in the majority of smaller, less populated states, much like the design of the Congress where the Senate has equal representation of all states, regardless of population and the House where more populated states have more votes.
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∙ 11y agoActually, no, the winner of the popular vote does not always win the US Presidential election, an example being the 2000 election in which Al Gore received the most votes, but George W. Bush won the election. This can happen because the President is not directly elected, but rather, the public votes for electors, and those electors get together to form the Electoral College which then elects the President.
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∙ 15y agoFor the American Presidential Election it is the Electoral College that decides the result, not the popular vote. Usually the candidate that wins the election will have actually won the popular vote, but it is the Electoral College votes that decide it.
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∙ 9y agoThe popular vote in US presidential elections is used only at the state level to determine which candidates' electors will be appointed by the state. It has never been necessary to add together the popular votes of all the states.
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∙ 15y agoNo, the popular vote of a state dictates to whom the state's electoral college votes go to, and the votes from the electoral college decide the election.
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∙ 11y agoThe popular vote in each state picks the electors, and the electors pick the president and vice president.
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Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by?
Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by the electoral college. A president candidate can win the popular vote and still not win if he doesn't win the electoral college.
President is elected by?
the majority vote of the electoral college
What happens if there isn't a majority vote for president?
If there is not majority in the Electoral College, the vote goes to the House of Representatives. The president is then elected by a majority of states representatives.
Does The existence of the Electoral College mean that the president is not elected by the popular vote?
The president of the United States is not elected by direct popular vote, but rather by the electoral college. A mere 538 people, chosen by voters in all the states are the ones who actually elect the president. The candidate with the majority of electoral votes wins the presidency.
Why isn't the president chosen by popular vote?
The president of the United States is elected by electoral vote.
How many presidents have been elected unanimously?
No US president was elected unanimously by popular vote. The only president elected unanimously by the electoral college was George Washington (There was no popular vote in this election).
What two presidents won the popular vote but were not elected?
Andrew Jackson was the only man who won the popular vote without being elected and later was elected president. Samuel Tilden and Al Gore won the popular vote but never became president.
Does the Mexican president get elected?
Yes he is, by direct popular vote.
Why was President Jackson elected 4 times?
He wasn't. Only twice. He thought of running four a third term, but didn't. He also won the popular vote the first time but did not have a majority of the electoral vote. The only president elected four times was Franklin Roosevelt.
Who formally elected the president?
The Electoral College formally elects the president. The Electoral College is elected based on population of that state and the persons elected cast the vote majority of their state. Although, not all Electoral College representatives cast the majority vote, some cast the vote based on their own opinion. See the last election, Bush and Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote, yet George W. Bush became president because of the Electoral College.
Is elected by popular vote to 5 year terms?
the president of France
Does the president need a majority of the electoral votes or the majority of the popular vote to win?
majority on electoral votes
