To win the Electoral College, a candidate must receive a majority—at least —electoral votes. The Electoral College met on December 14, , to cast their votes for president and vice president of the United States.
Although there is no constitutional provision or federal law requiring electors to vote in accordance with the election results in their state, electors typically vote for their state's popular vote winner. Some states have provisions permitting the disqualification and replacement of an elector whose vote deviates from the state's popular vote. There were no faithless electors in The following map shows the number of electoral votes per state in the presidential election.
Faithless electors are members of the Electoral College who do not cast a vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged. While thirty-three states and the District of Columbia require electors to vote for the candidate they are pledged to, only 14 of those states have an enforcement mechanism to replace a faithless elector and his or her deviant vote, according to FairVote.
The following table shows state laws binding electors, where applicable: [4]. There were seven faithless electors in the election. John Kasich R and presidential candidate and former Rep.
Ron Paul R. Trump won Texas by approximately 10 points. Chris Suprun, the elector who voted for Kasich, discussed his vote in an op-ed for The Hill : "Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump.
Surely, electors have a constitutional duty if, after the popular vote but before the electoral vote, there emerges credible evidence that they are electing someone who is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President.
History will remember what you do in this moment. Four Democratic electors in Washington state did not vote for Hillary Clinton D , who won the state by almost 16 points. Three electors voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell R , who did not run for president in The electors who voted for Powell said their votes were not against Clinton. One elector said that she voted for Powell "in the hopes that Democrats and Republicans could reconcile. We need leaders who understand that," said Satiacum.
One Democratic elector in Hawaii voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders I , who ran against Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Clinton won Hawaii by 32 points in the general election. The Framers of the Constitution struggled to determine an effective way of electing a president and debated a number of solutions, each with its own issues in a developing nation. Selection by voters, Congress, and state legislatures were considered. The following issues were raised for each option: [11].
The Framers came up with a compromise by creating the Electoral College. Electors, equaling the number from each state's congressional delegation, would be chosen to cast the votes for president. The candidate with the second-highest vote total was elected vice president. The following text is a transcription of the Constitution in its original form.
Sections that are linked have since been amended or superseded:. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:.
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President.
But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. Members of the Electoral College are elected by each state and the District of Columbia on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in presidential election years. In , Election Day is Tuesday November 3, This date is set by a federal law passed by Congress, and may only by changed by Congress.
In Maine and Nebraska, one presidential elector is elected from each of the state's congressional districts, and two presidential electors are elected on the basis of the statewide vote.
For example, in , Nebraska's electoral votes divided , with McCain receiving four and Obama receiving one as a result of his winning Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.
In , Maine's electoral votes divided , with Clinton receiving three and Trump receiving one as a result of his winning Maine's 2nd congressional district in the northern part of the state. The members of the Electoral College cast their votes for President and Vice President in meetings held in the 50 state capitals and the District of Columbia in mid-December of presidential election years. If all electors are appointed, electoral votes i. The date for the meeting of the Electoral College is established by federal election law United States Code.
Before the general election, most candidates for president go through a series of state primaries and caucuses. Though primaries and caucuses are run differently, they both serve the same purpose. Caucuses are private meetings run by political parties. In most, participants divide themselves into groups according to the candidate they support.
Undecided voters form their own group. Each group gives speeches supporting its candidate and tries to get others to join its group. At the end, the number of voters in each group determines how many delegates each candidate has won. During a closed primary or caucus, only voters registered with that party can take part and vote. Learn which states have which types of primaries. At stake in each primary or caucus is a certain number of delegates.
These are individuals who represent their state at national party conventions. The parties have different numbers of delegates due to the rules involved in awarding them. Each party also has some unpledged delegates or superdelegates. These delegates are not bound to a specific candidate heading into the national convention.
When the primaries and caucuses are over, most political parties hold a national convention. This is when the winning candidates receive their nomination. For information about your state's presidential primaries or caucuses, contact your state election office or the political party of your choice. Anyone who meets these requirements can declare their candidacy for president.
That includes naming a principal campaign committee to raise and spend campaign funds. To become the presidential nominee, a candidate typically has to win a majority of delegates.
This happens through additional rounds of voting. Pledged, or bound delegates must support the candidate they were awarded to through the primary or caucus process. In the first round of voting, pledged delegates usually have to vote for the candidate they were awarded to at the start of the convention.
Unpledged delegates don't. First, voters cast ballots on Election Day in each state. In nearly every state, the candidate who gets the most votes wins the "electoral votes" for that state, and gets that number of voters or "electors" in the "Electoral College. Second, the "electors" from each of the 50 states gather in December and they vote for president. The person who receives a majority of votes from the "Electoral College" becomes President.
How exactly does this work? Under the "Electoral College" system, each state is assigned a certain number of "votes". There are a total of electoral votes, and the number of votes each state receives is proportional to its size the bigger the state's population the more "votes" it gets. The formula for determining the number of votes for each state is simple: each state gets two votes for its two US Senators, and then one more additional vote for each member it has in the House of Representatives.
For California, this means we get 55 votes 2 senators and 53 members of the House of Representatives the most of any state.
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