The Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won both the Electoral College.

Decision Day has become divisive but in Dr. Sarah Purcell’s history class at Grinnell College students learn it is hardly ...

Nebraska's allocation method, which was adopted before the 1992 election, was long seen as an innocuous curiosity.

Michigan lost a seat in Congress and an electoral college vote as a result of the 2020 Census. It marked the fifth ...

WASHINGTON — To secure the White House, a presidential candidate needs to win a majority of electoral votes — at least 270.

It's a rare phenomenon to win the presidency but not the popular vote. But it has happened twice in the past seven elections.

Biden's win came as voter turnout rose 7% over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. adult citizens casting a ballot in ...

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

With Election Day in the books, the next step is the Electoral College. The process of electing the President of the United ...

The presidents who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote 1824: John Quincy Adams won the election after a contentious four-man race for the White House ended without a majority.

Only once in US history has the president not been chosen by the Electoral College, since the current system came into play.

John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824, with both again representing the Democratic-Republican Party. Jackson had more electoral and popular votes than Adams, but neither had a majority ...