Less than a third of Americans want to keep the Electoral College, one survey found. Here's how this system is used to elect ...

As the most populous state in the U.S. — more than 39.5 million people, according to the 2020 U.S. Census — California has ...

Votes tallied on Election Day tend to favor Republicans in a phenomenon known as the "red mirage," while a so-called blue ...

Combine that with the state's two senators, and it has 54 electoral votes. Texas has the second-most with 40 electoral votes. After that, Florida has 30 votes, and New York has 28. Then ...

The Electoral College is how the president of the United States is elected. In the U.S., there are 538 votes up for grabs ...

That’s the number of Electoral College votes needed, out of 538, to win the presidency. Most pundits think that 43 states plus D.C., and their electoral votes, are all but decided before polls ...

Both Maine and Nebraska allow electoral votes to be split. In Maine, two of four electoral votes go to the statewide winner and one electoral vote goes to the winner in each of the two ...

Here are five things to know about the electoral college system: The founding fathers opted against a national popular vote where the winning candidate just has to gain a majority of votes to claim ...

Each state is given a certain number of electoral votes based on its population and the number of members it has in Congress. The candidate who wins the most electoral votes wins the presidency.

WASHINGTON — Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. Then there's Nebraska and Maine. Both states split their ...

The Electoral College is the key to the American presidential voting process, created by the Founding Fathers in 1787 as a compromise between the popular vote, directly among citizens ...

Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes because it has nine U.S. House representatives and two U.S. senators. Like the ...