They can if their legislature votes to split their votes. Maine and Nebraska currently allow their vote to be split.
Voted are awarded by population. Some state votes winner-take-all and other states split the votes.
In the 1896 presidential election California electors split their vote giving 8 electoral votes to McKinley and 1 to Bryan. Kentucky electors split their vote giving 12 electoral votes to McKinley and 1 to Bryan.
Oh, dude, in 1824, there were zero states splitting their electoral votes. It was a winner-takes-all kind of situation back then. Like, imagine if they had to do math to figure out who won, that would've been a disaster. So yeah, no splitting votes in 1824, just good ol' fashioned electoral college drama.
Ralph Nader took 695,084 votes, but did not win any states.
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Yes, in most states. Maine and Nebraska split their votes by congressional district.
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Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).
Those two States are not Winner Take All Statesand their Electoral Votes may be split between voting districts as was the case for Nebraska in the 2008 Presidential Election.
The U.S. Constitution states that a state may appoint its electors "... in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct..." They just have to want to. The problem is that the majority party does not want to give up the extra votes, and the minority party does not have enough votes in the state legislature to change the rules.