Is the president elected by the majority of the popular vote?

Answer 1

No the popular vote does not decide the president. the reason this is , is because the person to be elected president has to win their parties votes before they can even be a candidate. what really has to happen is they have to count each states electorial votes and the number of democratic or rpublican votes decides the president.

Answer 2

The total popular vote has no effect on the election. The popular vote in each state determines which slate of electors will cast that state's electoral vote. In 48 states, the popular vote winner of the state, gets all of the electoral votes of the state. Nebraska and Maine allow its votes to be split in proportion to the vote totals.

Answer 3

No. The voters actual elect delegates (electors to the electoral college) that actually elect the president. Each state has a set number of delegates. During the election, the candidate who gets the most votes in a state gets those delegates. However, the delegates are not bound to vote for the candidate who won the majority of the votes. It is actually possible for a presidential candidate to win the popular vote, but lose the election because the delegates elected the other candidate.

The intent of this system was to prevent a few large, highly populated states from electing a president with little or no support in the majority of smaller, less populated states, much like the design of the Congress where the Senate has equal representation of all states, regardless of population and the House where more populated states have more votes.

Answer 4

Actually, no, the winner of the popular vote does not always win the US Presidential election, an example being the 2000 election in which Al Gore received the most votes, but George W. Bush won the election. This can happen because the President is not directly elected, but rather, the public votes for electors, and those electors get together to form the Electoral College which then elects the President.

Answer 5

For the American Presidential Election it is the Electoral College that decides the result, not the popular vote. Usually the candidate that wins the election will have actually won the popular vote, but it is the Electoral College votes that decide it.

Answer 6

The popular vote in US presidential elections is used only at the state level to determine which candidates' electors will be appointed by the state. It has never been necessary to add together the popular votes of all the states.

Answer 7

No, the popular vote of a state dictates to whom the state's electoral college votes go to, and the votes from the electoral college decide the election.

Answer 8

The popular vote in each state picks the electors, and the electors pick the president and vice president.

Answer 9

No