In the 1984 election Ronal Regan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1936 election Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.49%) of the 531 electoral votes. In the 1972 election Richard Nixon received 520 (96.65%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1820 election James Monroe was unopposed and received 231 (99.57%) of the 232 electoral votes.
In terms of electoral college numbers, the most lopsided victory in a United States presidential election was in 1936. Democrat Franklin Roosevelt defeated Republican challenger Alf Landon by a margin of 523 electoral votes to 8 electoral votes. Roosevelt won every state except Maine and Vermont. He also won over 98% of the electorate. In terms of most electoral votes, Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated challenger Democrat Walter Mondale by a margin of 525 electoral votes to 13 electoral votes. Reagan won every state except Minnesota and Washington D.C. He also won over 97% of the electorate in the 1984 election.
John Breckinridge received the most electoral votes from the south in 1860. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4%), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. Lincoln received his 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. John Breckinridge received electoral votes from Alabama (9), Arkansas (4), Delaware (3), Florida (3), Georgia (10), Louisiana (6), Maryland (8), Mississippi (7), North Carolina (10), South Carolina (8), and Texas (4). Douglas received votes from Missouri and New Jersey. Douglas received Missouri's 9 electoral votes. New Jersey electors split their vote giving 4 to Lincoln and 3 to Douglas. John Bell received electoral votes from Virginia (15), Kentucky (12), and Tennessee (12).
The Electoral college gives the same number of votes to all of the states (NovaNET)----the electoral college gives the same number of votes to all of the states (novanet)----
John Quincy Adams eventually won the 1824 election, but Jackson won the popular vote. The election was actually decided in 1825 by the House of Representatives because nobody got a majority of the electoral votes.The 1824 election was the first time in US history that no candidate won the majority of the electoral vote. Therefore in Feb of 1825 the legislature voted and John Quincy Adams was elected President.
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228/231 electoral votes
Hayes won by 19 electoral votes.
the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes.
the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes.
Kansas has a total of six electoral votes. Interestingly, Lyndon B Johnson was the only democrat in history to win all of Kansas' electoral votes in 1964.
It's a "winner-take-all" system, so the margin of victory doesn't matter. The winner receives all of the state's electoral votes.
Candidates need a majority of electoral votes to be elected. Because most states* award all of their electoral votes to the top candidate in that state, candidates do not need to win the national popular vote to win a majority of electoral votes. The result is that winning a few large population states (called swing states), even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. In 1876, 1888, and 2000, the winning candidate did not get the most popular votes nationwide.
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If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US. Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
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When referring to the Electoral College and Presidential elections, a candidate can win by taking: California (55 electoral votes) Texas (28 electoral votes) Florida (29 electoral votes) New York (29 electoral votes) Illinois (20 electoral votes) Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) Ohio (18 electoral votes) Georgia (16 electoral votes) Michigan (16 electoral votes) New Jersey (15 electoral votes) Virginia (14 electoral votes) - a total of 11 states for 270 electoral votes which means a candidate can lose the other 39 states and District of Columbia and still win the election.