What determines the candidate the electors vote for in the electoral college?

Answer 1

Electoral college is actually the means which officially determines the election of the President and Vice President--if the votes are more than 50% for a single candidate for each office. They are actual people selected by the voters of the individual states; they are "pledged" to vote for a slate of President/Vice President, but they are not legally required to do so (and, in the case of death or disability, would be empowered to vote for someone else). They are "elected" for this single purpose, and electors for the major party candidates are usually chosen from among party loyalists in their respective states.

If they don't get 50% in their balloting, the decision of electing the President goes to the House and the Electoral College is released from further duty.

Answer 2

Each state gets there own set number of electoral votes. If a candidate wins in that state, they get the electoral votes of that state.

Answer 3

the candidate who receives the most popular votes in a state is credited with all that states electoral votes

Answer 4

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