The Electoral College is used to choose the winner of the presidential election, but the number of votes in the College that ...

The Electoral College consists of 538 electoral votes, which are distributed amongst each state based on the number of ...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

If current trends hold through the 2030 census, states that voted for Vice President Kamala Harris will lose around a dozen House seats — and Electoral College votes — to states that voted for ...

Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely ...

Beneath the total vote count are the Electoral College certificates and votes by state. Both the total vote count and the individual count by state show Trump received 312 electoral votes ...

Early Wednesday, Trump became the first candidate to collect 270 electoral votes to win back the White House. U.S. News breaks down how those votes were won in each state. Interested in more ...

It is tied to the number of House members plus two senators each state has in Congress. Usually, the popular vote winner matches the Electoral College winner, but not always. Twice this century ...

In Ray v. Blair (1952), the Supreme Court held that a state could constitutionally impose a pledge from elector candidates to vote for their party’s nominees in the Electoral College.

of the United States Constitution by "necessitating an unconstitutional distribution of Electoral College votes among the states." "The Residence Rule also breaches the federal government’s ...

Meeting in their home states, electors would find it difficult to collude or buy and sell votes. A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the ...