Explore the Electoral College, a system that elects the U.S. president. Learn about its history, process, and how it differs from popular vote.

There would be no country without the founding compromise.

(THE CONVERSATION) The voters have cast their ballots, and after those ballots have been counted, and a winner has been projected by news organizations, that’s not the conclusion of the election. The ...

The 2024 electoral map closely resembles Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election victory over Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. Even when neither ...

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 by ...

In counting the vote, the AP isn't actually tabulating the results of individual voters' actual ballots. That work is performed by the local government election officials who administer elections in ...

Election Day is finally here. Polls have opened for the 2024 United States election, a national vote that will decide not only the next president of the country but also the makeup of the House of ...

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) – In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College ...

In the race for the White House, it’s not until early January that the formal process of picking the president via the ...

News organizations don't count the votes in elections, so how are they able to determine whether a state has been won by ...

The assumption was that the Electoral College math would continue to favor the GOP and disadvantage Democrats. But the main theme as we barrel toward the 2024 presidential election seems to be ...