The recent presidential election has once again thrust the Electoral College system into the national spotlight ... in on the ...

These are the Electoral College votes a candidate needs to win the presidency. The system has been around since the first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes.

It's possible to become President of the United States without getting the most votes, thanks to the Electoral College. The system allocates 538 votes across the country, and a candidate needs a ...

The U.S. presidential election is here. Tomorrow, millions of Americans will go to the polls in what will be one of the world’s most-watched elections. Swing states, faithless electors, the ...

“You see the impact, for example, in the South right now,” Jesse Wegman, author of the book Let The People Pick The President ...

“Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College.” Here is each state and its ...

California has 54 electoral votes, the most of any state. The Electoral College system is part of the U.S. Constitution and represents a compromise between whether the president should be picked ...