Sentences with phrase «electoral college results»

As the night went on, many of us were stunned as the electoral college results came in.

In the presidential election of 1876, an Electoral Commission was appointed which chose between electoral college results offered by some disputed states.

At the extreme end, Congress might refuse to certify an electoral college result, so only the other state votes would count.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

Not exact matches

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

As the 2016 election results continue to come in, it looks pretty clear that Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote but lose the electoral college.

Coming off Mitt Romney's almost - six - million - vote loss in the presidential election in 2012, which resulted in an electoral - college margin of 332 - 206 (270 are needed to win), Republican national chairman Reince Priebus put together a committee of five persons to examine, explain and address the party's losses on the national level.

The broad brush that painted the electoral college map red in 2016 left sweeping strokes through Suffolk County, and it became apparent almost immediately after the results began trickling in.

The result of this cherry - picking is that democratic presidential candidates would have to win the popular vote by 6 percent or more (a landslide) in order to edge out republicans in the electoral college.

So republican success in re-apportioning electoral college votes to counties would result in a tipping of the scales dramatically against democratic candidates.