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What happen if no president candidate wins a majority of electoral votes?
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∙ 6y ago
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
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∙ 11y agoTo be elected president or vice president, a candidate must receive half of the 538 electoral votes available. This means that a candidate needs 270 votes to win. If no candidate gets an electoral college majority, the House of Representatives votes on the candidates, with each st6ate delegation casting only a single vote. This happened twice, in 1800 and in 1824.
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∙ 14y agoIf the Electoral College cannot elect a president, the election is decided by the House of Representatives.
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What does the constitution say will happen if no candidate for president receives a majority if the electoral votes?
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
If a presidential candidate does not receive a majority of electoral votes what will happen?
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United State Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
Who becomes president if the president dies before he starts his term?
If this should happen, the electoral college would most likely cast their votes for the vice-presidential candidate of the dead winning candidate.
What would happen if the electors of the electoral college refuse to vote for trump?
If a majority voted for someone else, that person would become the president. If no one received a majority of the electoral vote, the House of Representatives would elect the president.
What would happen if Donald Duck or another fictional or unqualified write-in candidate for President won a majority of the Electoral College when they are not all qualified to be President?
The invalid votes would be thrown out, like the 3 votes in 1872 for Horace Greeley, who had died a few weeks earlier. Without enough votes left to give anyone else a majority, the House of Representatives would elect the President.
Can you be president and not have the most electoral votes?
One could win the US presidential election without the ten states with the highest number of electoral votes (256), although since numbers nine through eleven each have 15 votes if all eleven of the states with the most electoral votes went for one candidate there is no way the other candidate could win (271 votes against). In the 'top ten ' scenario, all of the remaining states, with the exception of Massachusetts (12 votes) would have to be won by the candidate collecting electoral votes from the smaller (when calculated by electoral votes) states.
Who elects the president if no candidate wins majority electoral?
If no candidate for president of the United States gets a majority of votes in the Electoral College, then the election will be decided by a vote within the House of Representatives. However, in the House of Representatives, each State gets ONE vote. So it is at least theoretically possible that in a 3-way election where two candidates have split the urban, coastal, big-state votes, that the #3 candidate who did well in the small population midwestern states might decisively win the election in the House and become the President.
What happens to electoral vote if candidate wins by only one vote?
That's not going to happen.
What would happen if no candidate received the necessary number of votes in the Electoral College to win the Presidency?
Then the House of Representatives would choose the President from the three candidates with the highest electoral vote count. Each state delegation would vote as a whole.
If the presidential vote in the electoral college results in a tie?
If the electoral vote splits 269-269, the House of Representatives would decide between the two candidates via a special procedure in which the each state gets one vote. They would keep voting until they do come out with a majority for one candidate.
If it is election day and McCain and Obama are running and Obama is killed during the election who would become president?
On election day, only the electors for the electoral college are chosen, of which there are 538. What would probably happen would be that the Democratic party leaders would debate on a replacement candidate, who would probably be Joe Biden. They would then have to convince the electors to vote for Joe Biden and in the end, Joe Biden would probably have become president. This is not a certainty though. It is possible that some sort of compromise unifying candidate might come out of the chaos, capturing the majority of electoral votes to become president.
What would happen if only one candidate ran for president?
you would be president.
