While the number of Electoral College votes has remained at 538 since 1964, the number of votes per state changes to match congressional apportionment after the decennial census. Between the 2020 election and the 2024 election, Texas gained two Electoral College votes, while five other states — ...
with a 67-67 tie in the House. One House DFLer won by 14 votes. Then it turned out that 20 votes had not been counted. And on Dec. 20, a judge ruled that the winning DFLer was ineligible because he didn't meet the state's residency requirement. The DFLer conceded that the judge...
The state also polls fairly blue, although one electoral vote goes to Team Red consistently. Granted, my trip was mainly in the bluest part of the state along the coast, but after being up there I was very surprised that Susan Collins won. I think the same thing is happening in Alaska....
Does Trump really need his base anymore? He no longer needs votes, nor cheering crowds. It seems that Trump's base has become obsolete. (V) & (Z) answer:First, Trump has a very large ego, and an even larger need for approval. He will need the cheering crowds until his dying day....
defeating Donald Trump in the Omaha-centered area known as the state's "blue dot." The district, which previously supported Democrats Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020, added to Harris' tally in this unique system where Nebraska and Maine split their electoral votes based on individu...
are counted separately but do not count as valid votes. According to article 258 of the Constitution, an election must be repeated if there is a plurality of blank votes (prior to the 2009 political reform, it required an absolute majority of blank votes). In the event that a congressional...
But you expect me to believe that, while Trump got two million votes more than Romney, Clinton would outperform Obama in California so much so that she would defeat Trump nationwide using only the gigantic margin of victory in one state where the Democrats have enough control to rig an ...
In this previous election, the two major English parties, Conservative and Labor, did not have enough votes to form a majority government and ended up losing both members in the Parliament due to colligations done with other parties to win votes in the House of the Commons. Additionally, the...
As a robustness check, we will analyze SMD/MMD votes as well. For the data sources, see Online Appendix A.4.1. In the elections to the upper chamber after 2001, voters can cast their ballots to either a party or a candidate of a party’s open list. We sum votes for governing parties...
California, the largest state, gets 55 electoral votes for its estimated 39.5 million people as of July 2019.820That's only one electoral vote per 718,182 people. On the other extreme, thinly populated Wyoming gets 3 votes for its estimated 579,000 people as of July 2019, which amounts to...