The lowest Electoral College score for any candidate was four years prior to that, when former Vice President Walter Mondale won just one state and Washington, D.C., for a total of 13 votes, against ...

And almost all states are winner take all, meaning whether a candidate wins a race by one vote or a million, they get the ...

They didn’t teach us about faithless electors in grammar school 70 years ago, but they should have. Since then, I learned that I’m not really voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee when I mark my ...

There are two ways such an outcome could unfold: Either Trump and Harris each receive 269 electoral votes, or so-called “faithless electors” cast their ballot for other candidates. The ...

They will cast their votes in the state they represent on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December, the ...

In the 2016 election, for example, there were seven so-called ‘faithless’ electors. What’s more, the Electoral College system ...

The election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is shaping up to be the closest Electoral ...

Every four years, Americans cast ballots to determine their chosen President of the United States, but technically speaking, ...

Despite its substantial-sounding name, the Electoral College isn’t a permanent body: It’s more of a process. For decades, a ...

Although winning states by wide margins reduces controversy, Dr. Kennedy discussed the history and implications of faithless electors. Historically, faithless electors were electors who, once elected, ...

Like all but two U.S. states, Illinois has a winner-take-all system, in which all the state's electoral votes to go to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in the state.

It could happen again. It could happen this year, and not necessarily as expected, by a single elector from Nebraska. Only Nebraska and Maine allocate electors by congressional district rather ...