The Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won both the Electoral College.

Explore the Electoral College, a system that elects the U.S. president. Learn about its history, ... such as the 1800 election where slave owner Thomas Jefferson defeated anti-slavery advocate ...

Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris' 226. See state-by-state results here and below. Nationally, Trump also won the popular vote, winning 77.2 million votes to Harris' 75 million.

The Electoral College meeting occurs on the Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December, which was December 17 in 2024. Each state’s electors meet in their state and cast their votes.

The Electoral College is a frequent target of criticism—with more attempts to amend or abolish it than any other feature in the Constitution.

Forty-eight states have a winner-take-all system where the winner of the state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska are the only states with a split ...

If our forefathers had been omniscient there would be no 27 Constitutional Amendments. The Electoral College was a solution for the disparate populations of our young democratic republic. The 12th ...

On election night, Americans across the country were focused on one number: 270. It’s a well-known – and hotly-contentious – fact that in American politics, presidential candidates must win 270 ...

All that counts is our ancient electoral college system, rooted in the Founders’ appeasement of Southern slave states. It’s beneficial, however, that Trump apparently also won the popular vote.

In 2016, he became the fifth president in U.S. history to win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, joining George W. Bush against Al Gore in 2000, Benjamin Harrison against ...