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What happens if a presidential candidate does not win the popular vote?
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∙ 11y ago
The popular vote has no bearing on the Presidential and Vice Presidential elections themselves. It is used by the states to determine which electors get appointed. State electors are "pledged" to vote for the candidate of the party that chose them. In 48 states plus D.C., the winner of the popular vote in each state will receive all of that state's electoral votes in the real Presidential and Vice Presidential elections when they meet in December. In Maine and Nebraska, the winner of the popular vote in each state receives two of that state's electoral votes, and each additional electoral vote goes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in each of the state's federal congressional districts.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoA candidate does not need half of the popular votes, or even a majority of the popular votes, to be elected President or Vice President. The votes of the public are only used by each state as the method for determining for which candidates that state's electors will vote.
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∙ 7y agoHe/ she gets the electors from that state.
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What happens when a presidential candidate wins a state with slightly more than half the popular vote?
The candidate gets all of the state's electoral votes
What happens when a presidential candidate wins state with slightly more than half of the popular vote?
The candidate gets all of the state's electoral votes
What happens when a presidential candidate wins a state slightly more than half of the popular vote?
The candidate gets all of the state's electoral votes
What happens when a presidential candidate wins a state with slightly more than half of popular vote?
The candidate gets all of the state's electoral votes
What happens when a presidential candidate wins the election based on electoral vote but loses the popular vote?
based on what happened in the 2000 election, he (or she) becomes president.
What presidential candidate of 2008 won the popular vote?
Barack Obama.
Which candidate received the majority of the popular vote in the presidential election of 2008?
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
Which Independent presidential candidate received 6.6 percent of the popular vote in 1980?
John B. Anderson received 6.6 percent of the popular vote in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
Old method by which a party's representatives in Congress nominated its presidential candidate?
by election of the popular vote
Who was the independent presidential candidate who won 7 percent of popular vote in 1980?
John Anderson
The candidate who wins a majority of the popular vote in the presidential election?
does not necessarily win the Presidency the answer is true
Do the electors vote and then they decide who gets the electoral vote for that state?
The electors in each state are elected by the popular vote in the presidential election and swear in advance to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the election in their state.
