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The system used in the United States to elect the president, where the winner is determined by the Electoral College.
No — a U.S. president cannot unilaterally cancel the midterm elections; federal law and the states’ control over election administration leave no legal mechanism for a president to suspend or postpone...
are the federal contests held halfway through a president’s four-year term and they do not include a vote for president or vice president . Voters use midterms to elect all members of the House and ab...
All three Rust Belt swing states—, and —flipped from the Democratic column in to Republican in ; carried Michigan by 1.42%, Pennsylvania by 1.71%, and Wisconsin by 0.86% (vote margins: Michigan 80,103...
A concise inventory of U.S. presidential vote totals requires two parallel tallies: the nationwide popular vote and the state-by-state counts that actually decide the presidency, both of which are tra...
Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 by securing a narrow Electoral College majority despite losing the national popular vote, flipping several Midwestern “blue wall” states that decided the Electo...
Third‑party and independent candidates collected a small but politically visible slice of the 2024 popular vote—official tallies and reporting place their combined share under roughly 2% of the total,...
Official are the legal, final tallies produced through canvass and certification processes administered by state and local election officials; those certified counts are the authoritative inputs that ...
The produced a clear split: won the nationwide popular vote by roughly 2.9 million votes, yet won a majority of votes and thereby the presidency . This outcome — one of five U.S. elections where the E...
Special elections to fill U.S. House vacancies are scheduled under state law and, in practice, are typically held several months after a vacancy; in recent practice the average interval has been about...
National emergencies have repeatedly shaped how Americans vote, who can vote, and how elections are administered: wars and pandemics have compressed turnout, forced legal improvisation, and prompted d...