Set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office
This article is about electoral colleges in general. For the American electoral college, see United States Electoral College. For other uses, see Electoral college (disambiguation).
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An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices. Often these represent different organizations, political parties or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. The United States has been the only democracy in the 21st century that still uses an electoral college to select its executive president. The other democracies that used an electoral college for these elections switched to direct elections in the 19th or 20th century.[1]:215
^Levitsky, Steven; Ziblatt, Daniel (2023). Tyranny of the Minority: why American democracy reached the breaking point (First ed.). New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44307-1.
An electoralcollege is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices. Often these represent different organizations,...
In the United States, the ElectoralCollege is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the...
The count of the ElectoralCollege ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, on January...
are registered to vote cast ballots for members of the ElectoralCollege, who then cast electoral votes for president and vice president. In order to be...
offices, but instead for members of the ElectoralCollege. These electors then cast direct votes, known as electoral votes, for president, and for vice president...
The United States ElectoralCollege was established by the U.S. Constitution, which was adopted in 1789, as part of the process for the indirect election...
District of Columbia. These jurisdictions have 205 electoral votes, which is 38% of the ElectoralCollege and 76% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact...
method by which its electors to the ElectoralCollege will be chosen. To increase its voting power in the ElectoralCollege system, every state, with the exceptions...
the procedure in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which the ElectoralCollege originally functioned. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December...
amend the US Constitution to abolish or to reduce the power of the ElectoralCollege and to provide for the direct popular election of the US president...
votes cast by electors of the ElectoralCollege. Alternatively, if no candidate receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, the election is determined...
An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined...
constituencies (the Dutch-speaking electoralcollege, the French-speaking electoralcollege and the German-speaking electoralcollege) to elect the Belgian delegation...
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that state. Biden ultimately received the majority in the ElectoralCollege with 306 electoral votes, while Trump received 232. Trump was the first president...
the rules of the electoral system in place before the 1804 ratification of the 12th Amendment, each member of the ElectoralCollege cast two votes, with...
Within the City of London), the College of Arms in London (a body of heralds enforcing heraldic law), an electoralcollege (to elect representatives); all...
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election of the President of India is an indirect election in which electoralcollege consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament (M...
mulled a run in 2004. He won the 2016 general election through the ElectoralCollege while losing the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton...
Party's vice presidential candidate, became the first woman to receive an electoral vote, via faithless elector Roger MacBride. In the 1988 presidential election...
represent them in the ElectoralCollege via a popular vote. The state of Arizona has 11 electoral votes in the ElectoralCollege, following reapportionment...
represent them in the ElectoralCollege via a popular vote. The state of Delaware has 3 electoral votes in the ElectoralCollege, following reapportionment...