Examples of The Electoral College in the following topics:
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- In the election of 1888, President Grover Cleveland lost to Republican Benjamin Harrison in the Electoral College despite winning the popular vote.
- The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost reelection in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
- Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election.
- Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest, losing only Connecticut and New Jersey, but carried the swing states of New York and Indiana to achieve a majority of the electoral vote.
- Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.
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- In the end, Jefferson won a narrow victory over Adams (73 to 65 electoral votes) with New York casting the decisive vote.
- Other decisive factors in the Jefferson victory were Jefferson's popularity in the South, and the effective campaigning of Aaron Burr in New York State, where the legislature (which selected the electoral college) shifted from Federalist to Democratic-Republican and cast the deciding vote.
- With the two parties tied 65-65 in the Electoral College, the last state to vote, South Carolina, chose eight Republicans, giving the election to Jefferson and Burr.
- Furthermore, this system of balloting was changed by the Twelfth Amendment (1804), which called for a "party ticket" (one president and one vice-presidential candidate) that the Electoral College had to cast votes for, rather than selecting individuals.
- Figures indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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- In 1796, voters only could cast ballots for electors in the Electoral College, not for the presidential candidates themselves, and not all electors publicly declared their political preferences.
- Some state legislatures even selected the members of the Electoral College.
- Moreover, the voting method in the Electoral College did not account for party tickets: The writers of the Constitution had not envisioned competing political factions.
- There was no way for the electors to cast one vote for president and one for vice president—the electors simply voted for two different people, and the candidate with the most votes became president while the candidate with the second-highest number became vice president.
- Jefferson received the second-highest number of electoral votes and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting.
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1860, many observers noted that the Republicans had an almost unbeatable advantage
in the Electoral College because they dominated almost every Northern state.
- Lincoln
won in the Electoral College with less than 40% of the popular vote nationwide,
leading contemporaries to cite the split in the Democratic party as a
contributing factor to Lincoln's victory.
- Like Lincoln in the North, Southern
Democrat Breckinridge won no electoral votes outside of the South.
- He finished
second in the Electoral College with 72 votes, carrying 11 of 15 slave states.
- Douglas was the only candidate to win electoral votes in both the North and the
South (in New Jersey and Missouri), but he finished last in the Electoral
College.
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- Electors were chosen by popular vote in eighteen states, while the six remaining states used the older system in which state legislatures chose electors.
- The Electoral College, however, was another matter.
- Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or better to win but secured only 99.
- Because Jackson did not receive a majority vote from the Electoral College, the election was decided following the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, which stipulated that when a candidate did not receive a majority of electoral votes, the election went to the House of Representatives, where each state would provide one vote.
- This map of the Electoral College votes of 1824 illustrates the number of electoral votes allotted to each candidate in each state.
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- Since the last
election, the Whig Party had disintegrated over the issue of slavery, and new
parties (including the Republican Party) competed to replace it.
- Buchanan won the
election of 1856 with the full support of the South as well as five free
states.
- Although Buchanan won the election and Frémont received fewer than 600
votes in all slave states, the results in the Electoral College indicated that
the Republican Party could succeed in the next election if they won just two
more states.
- Buchanan had won 45.3% of the popular vote and 174 electoral votes
whereas Frémont won 33.1% of the popular vote and 114 electoral votes.
- Fillmore
won 21.6% of the popular vote and eight electoral votes.
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- Requiring 270 electoral votes to win the election, Obama received 303 electoral votes, while Romney earned 206.
- His victory was much narrower than his electoral victory in the 2008 Presidential Election against Senator John McCain.
- While Romney lost the popular vote by a slight margin, a much greater margin in the electoral college necessitated his loss.
- Census changed the apportionment of votes in the Electoral College, potentially changing the allocation of votes among swing states.
- Some states enacted new electoral laws in 2011.
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- Reagan won the election of 1984 in a landslide, winning 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6% and a record 525 electoral votes.
- Mondale's only electoral votes came from the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a mere 3,761 votes.
- Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate.
- Reagan was re-elected in the November 6 election in an electoral and popular vote landslide.
- 1984 presidential electoral votes by state.
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- The need for a compromise is suggested by the congressional disagreement about the electoral proceedings.
- Tilden had won the popular vote by almost a quarter of a million votes, but he did not have a clear Electoral College majority.
- A total of 185 votes constituted an Electoral College majority; hence, Tilden needed only one of the disputed votes, while Hayes needed all twenty.
- Since the Constitution did not explicitly indicate how Electoral College disputes were to be resolved, Congress was forced to consider other methods to settle the crisis.
- The committees ultimately settled upon creating an Electoral Commission.
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- Bush narrowly won the November 7 election with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 (with one elector abstaining in the official tally).
- Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more popular votes than Bush.
- The election was noteworthy for a controversy over the awarding of Florida's 25 electoral votes, the subsequent recount process in that state, and the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes than the runner-up.
- Florida's 25 electoral votes became the key to an election win for either candidate.
- Most of the post-electoral controversy revolved around Gore's request for hand recounts in four counties, as provided under Florida state law.