In the event that no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes, the House elects a president from among the top three candidates in a election in which every state gets one vote. States with more than one representative to the House would have to caucus among themselves in order to decide how to cast their one vote. A majority of the states must agree in order to elect a candidate.
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If the electoral college is not able to elect a President, the election goes to the House of Representatives.
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electoral college
A Presidential candidate must obtain 270 Electoral Votes (the vote cast in the electoral college of the U.S. by the representatives of each state in a presidential election) to be elected President of the United States.
You must be thinking of John Quincy Adams, our 6th president, who chosen by the House of Representatives after no candidate received the majority of electoral votes needed for election.
House of Representatives
The House of Representatives.
If there is no majority in the Electoral College, the members of the US House of Representatives elect the President. No one ever appoints a President of the United States.
If the electoral college is not able to elect a President, the election goes to the House of Representatives.
The House of representatives get to elect it
Our representatives and the electoral college, and they do not have to listen to the majority of the voters.
House elects the president if no candidate has over 50% of the electoral college votes.
Electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College determine the President and Vice President of the United States. The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 9 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona. Therefore, Arizona has 11 electoral votes.
The representatives within the electoral college are to cast a vote based on the majority vote of the area they represent.
yes, if no candidate has a majority in the electoral college
If there is not majority in the Electoral College, the vote goes to the House of Representatives. The president is then elected by a majority of states representatives.
If the Electoral College fails to elect a president, the decision goes to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation gets one vote to choose the president from the top three candidates.