In the United States, registered voters vote in the general election. Anyone age 18 or older may register to vote within 30 days of a general election, unless prohibited from doing so under their state felon voting laws (see Related Links).
General Election
Elective votes.
Whichever side has the greatest amount of votes is usually the winner of the election.
1952 U.S. Presidential Election Results:531 votes (100.0%) - total266 votes (50.1%) - minimum required to win442 votes (83.2%) - Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York89 votes (16.8%) - Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
If no one votes in an election, there will be no winner since there are no votes to determine a victor. Elections usually require participation and votes to determine the outcome.
The number of states Obama won in the general presidential election of 2008 is 28.
Incumbent President Barack Obama won reelection in 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.
The majority of votes in the general election does not matter. Rather, it is the vote of the electoral college (elected by voters) which decides who becomes president.
Based on the results of the 2016 general election, Florida had 29 Republic electors in 2016. Florida cast its 29 electoral votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
In the election of 1896, McKinley had 271 electoral votes. In the election of 1900, he had 292 votes.
A total of 29,687,604 men and women cast valid votes in the 2010 UK general election. This represents a turnout of 65.1% of the total electorate.
You get more votes or elected representatives for your party than anyone else or other parties.