If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president. The House of Representatives has chosen the president only twice: in 1801 under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3; and in 1825 under the Twelfth Amendment.
531 - 444 for Hoover to 87 for Alfred E Smith.
In the 2016 presidential election Donald Trump received 304 electoral votes and Hillary Clinton received 227 electoral votes.
only if there were 598 or 599 electoral votes An absolute majority of 538 electoral votes is 270 or more.
Wisconsin had 10 electoral votes in the 2008 Presidential election. They will also have 10 electoral votes in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections
No the next president is decided by the amount of electoral votes the candidate gets. They need to have so many electoral votes to win the elections.
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None . In the election of the first presidents there was no electoral votes nor general elections. The men who became president were elected by congress. The founding fathers felt that the voters were not educated enough to be able to select a president.
There are 538 electoral votes. The presedential candidate needs to win 270 in order to be elected president.
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George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes and was unanimously elected President in 1789 and 1792.
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.
In the 2008 election, Barrack Obama received 365 electoral votes. In the 2012 election, he received 332 electoral votes.
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Alabama has 9 electoral votes.
The states choose as many "electors" as it has electoral votes and these electors elect the president. The electors are elected by popular vote in each state and each candidate for elector swears in advance whom he will vote for. The electors vote their electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Delaware has 3 electoral votes.
you have to get 270 electoral votes to win