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What presidential candidate has gotten the least electoral votes in history?
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Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in the 1936 presidential election defeating Alfred Landon. In the 1936 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 523 electoral votes and Alfred Landon received 8 electoral votes.
Incumbent President Ronald Reagan won reelection in the 1984 presidential election defeating Walter Mondale. In the 1984 election Ronald Reagan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. Walter Mondale received 10 electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and 3 electoral votes from the District of Columbia.
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What US Presidential candidate died before the election results had been cast?
In the U.S. presidential election of 1872, Horace Greeley, the Democratic Party Presidential Nominee, died 24 days after the casting of the popular votes and 17 days before the casting of the electoral votes. If he had survived the election, based on the November election results, even with 100% of the votes from each of the states he won he would have gotten a total of only 18.7% of the votes.
Since 1950 which president has gotten the most electoral votes?
Ronald Reagan
What is the top 10 highest electoral votes a US president has gotten?
500
The electoral college encourages candidates to campaign only in what states?
The Electoral College itself does not encourage any particular style of campaigning.What matters is that the individual STATES typically allot electoral votes on a "winner take all" basis. (Some, such as Maine, allot electoral votes on a congressional district-by-district basis.)So, since California was clearly going to go to the Democrats and Texas to the Republicans, neither presidential candidate campaigned there. Both candidates focused their attentions on the "battleground" states that could have voted either way.If California were to allot electoral votes on a district-by-district basis, then instead of Obama getting all of California's electoral votes, Obama would have gotten about 60% of them, and McCain would have received the rest. (In California, the big cities vote overwhelmingly Democrat, while the central valley and mountain districts are strongly Republican.)
How many electoral votes has each president gotten since 1980?
Total 270
When has no president gotten 270 electoral votes?
if there is a tie, then the house of representatives chooses te president and the senate chooses the vice-president.
Why is Maryland called the presidential state?
Maryland is not called the presidential state, it IS called the old line state. Though, you may have gotten that from that part of Maryland was given up to make D.C.
Which presidential candidate has gotten the lowest number of electoral college votes?
That would be the Republican Taft with 8, in 1912, when he faced his former boss the Republican turned Bull Moose, former President Teddy Roosevelt and the Democrat Woodrow Wilson. On a side note, Roosevelt ended up with 88, the best ever for a third party candidate. It is common belief that Teddy Roosevelt's candidacy split the Republican progressive vote, allowing the conservatives to rally behind Wilson who ended up with a whopping 435 electoral votes.
How many people have gotten hit By a pitch in MLB history?
1
Who were the candidates in 1968?
The Republican candidate was Richard Nixon, and his running mate was Spiro T. Agnew. Nixon had been Vice President under Eisenhower, and lost to John F Kennedy in 1960.The Democratic candidate was Hubert Humphrey, the incumbent Vice President, and his running mate was Edmund Muskie of Maine.The American Independent Party nominated Alabama Governor George Wallace, and his running mate was retired USAF general Curtis LeMay.Nixon won, but there was a strong showing by the 3rd party of Wallace and LeMay, who won 5 states and garnered 46 electoral votes. Had Nixon gotten 32 fewer electoral votes, it would have thrown the election to the House of Representatives.Other minor candidates in the election included comedians Pat Paulsen and Dick Gregory, activist Eldridge Cleaver, prohibitionist E. Harold Munn, Socialist candidates Henning Blomen and Fred Halstead, and the female Communist party nominee Charlene Mitchell. Also listed was a faux Yippie nominee, a pig named Pigasus.Nixon as PresidentRichard Nixon won the election to be come the 37th President of the United States. President Nixon was reelected in 1972, and was in office from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974, when he resigned from office.
Why can a strong third party mess up the Electoral College?
Because they can become "spoilers" for the other two major parties by taking votes away that they would have otherwise gotten.
Where do you get most of your history about Egypt from?
I've gotten books on it.The best ones are the ones about the mummies. They give you the history on all the major events.
