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Which presidential candidate has gotten the lowest number of electoral college votes?
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∙ 11y ago
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.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y agoThere have been thirteen people who received one vote in an election, but many of them were not actually running at the time.
Regarding major-party candidates, Republican Party Presidential Nominees William Howard Taft in 1912 and Alf Landon in 1936 received eight votes each.
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∙ 7y agoGerald Ford was president before he got any electoral votes since he was appointed vice-president and then became president. Of those actually getting votes, Thomas Jefferson got the least, 73.
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∙ 14y agoThe 1920 election won by Warren G. Harding , against Democrat James M. Cox. If you don't count James Monroe who ran unopposed and received 80.6% of the vote.
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∙ 16y agoTaft in 1912 - Eight electoral votes.
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What presidential candidate has gotten the least electoral votes in history?
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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
How many electoral votes has each president gotten since 1980?
Total 270
What college does chris brown go to college?
Yes He Gotten His Own Degree. He Was a A Student.
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.
How does the number of electoral votes of New Jersey compare to other states if smaller and larger size?
New Jersey ranks 47th in Area, 11th in Population and has 15 electoral college votes.Alaska ranks 1st in Area, 47th in Population and has 3 votes.California ranks first in Population and third in Area and has 55 votes.The Founding Fathers may have gotten this one right.
Are people happy with the electoral college?
Many people are angry because their candidate lost. Many others are pleased with the Electoral College since it did exactly what it was supposed to do - prevent highest population centers from running the rest of the country. If California results were discounted, Trump would have won the popular vote by almost 1.5 million. We don't know that changing over to choosing the President by popular vote would have given us a different result since the campaigning would likely have been in only the high population areas. More people might have voted because they felt their vote would finally count and third party candidates would likely have gotten fewer votes.
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.
