0
What would it take for a presidential candidate to win an election with fewer votes from states?
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoWant this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Can you win a Presidential election with fewer electoral votes your opponent?
No.
In which type of US election is it possible for the winning candidate to get fewer popular votes than the opposing candidate?
Only in the federal elections for President of the United States can this occur, as the Electoral College vote outcome will supercede the popular vote's.
How many people of age voted in the 1996 presidential election?
Barack Obama won the 2012 presidential election defeating Mitt Romney. In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 65,446,032 and Romney 60,589,084.
Where is your vote count more in the presidential governor or mayor?
Your vote "counts" more in a mayoral election because cities have fewer residents than the states in which they reside, and turnout for such elections is low compared to gubernatorial and presidential elections; because of the way the Electoral College works, however, if your state is expected to be close in support for one presidential candidate or the other, while your governor or mayor is popular enough to easily be re-elected, your vote may count more in a marginal sense.
A states presidential electors are chossen by?
The voters in the state. That's who we are actually voting for when we vote for President, since the Constitution does not allow for direct election of the President. When a candidate wins in a state, the electors who are pledged to that candidate are the ones sent to formally vote on who wins the election. In some states, the person with the most votes gets all the states electoral votes and in others the electoral votes are divided according to how many votes each candidate got. The are even variations on these two methods.This means that it is possible for one candidate to get the most overall votes in the country, but not be elected President because too many of votes he got were in states with too few electoral votes. This has happened twice in American history: 1876 when Hayes got fewer votes than Tilden, but won anyway, and in 2000 when HGore got more votes than Bush.
What is most likely the reason why Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry lost the 2004 elections to George W. Bush?
Fewer people voted for him.
How much does Maine count in the presidential election?
Maine currently controls four of the 538 electoral votes, which is about 0.74% of the votes. That may seem low, but more than half of the states each controls eight votes or fewer.
Why Is it possible for a presidential candidate to receive the majority of the popular votes in the US but still lose the election?
Because of the electoral college.The way US Presidential elections work is that the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state receives all the electoral votes of that state (there are a couple of states that do it differently, but most of them are "winner take all").It doesn't matter if you win in that state by one vote or unanimously, you get all the electoral votes. So if you win the states you win by large margins and lose the states you lose by small margins, it's entirely possible for the overall number of votes to show you as the winner, but for you to lose due to receiving fewer electoral votes than your opponent.
What are the key states in the 2012 presidential election?
Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa are the states that seem to be up for grabs in 2012. I would not even go that far. Whichever candidate wins the electoral votes from any two of the three of Ohio, Florida and Virginia will win the Presidency. Not that it would not be theoretically possible for one of the candidates to win with fewer of those three States with enough wins in other States--it's just that such permutations are unlikely to combine to occur.
Election of 2000?
This particular United States presidential election was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush, and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Bush narrowly won the November 7 election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 (with one elector abstaining in the official tally). The election was noteworthy for a controversy over the awarding of Florida's 25 electoral votes, the subsequent recount process in that state, and the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes than the runner-up.
How has won the election with fewer votes?
Federally, the States choose the President with the Electoral College. Sometimes (usually) popular vote dictates how the members vote. Usually, if a State is even 51%:49% for a candidate, the candidate gets 100% of the vote. Thus, it has happened that the lesser popular over all vote was reflected in a greater Electoral College vote. (Huh?)
What is most likely the reason why Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry lost the 2004 election to President George W. Bush?
Fewer people voted for him.
