The Electoral College is used to choose the winner of the presidential election, but the number of votes in the College that ...

Michigan and Wisconsin remain “core to our path to 270” electoral votes but the vice president’s emergence has “made the Sun Belt path more competitive,” referring to states such as ...

(Map last updated: January 31, 2012) Safe/likely Democratic states (total electoral votes: 196) Safe/likely Republican states (total electoral votes: 159) ...

The United States has had 60 presidential elections, starting in 1789. New parties have come and gone, while new states expanded the electoral map. Maps show us how each state has voted over time ...

There are only two states that split their electoral votes by congressional district: Nebraska and Maine. Both states allocate two electoral votes based on the statewide popular vote winner, then one ...