It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College​. This map shows ...

The American president is chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Here's why that is and how it works.

The Electoral College is the process by which Americans elect their president and vice president through appointed state ...

Less than a third of Americans want to keep the Electoral College, one survey found. Here's how this system is used to elect ...

This story was originally published in 2020. Each presidential election reignites an age-old debate on the Electoral College.

The quadrennial vote comes with a steep learning curve, as people and media outlets around the globe seek crash civics ...

VoteHub projects a Harris victory as of November 1, with 270 Electoral College votes for the Democratic candidate against 268 for Trump. A model from VoteHub has Harris on course for a razor tight ...

That has not happened in the modern era, but there are a few conceivable (if unlikely) paths across the Electoral College map ...

But in the United States’ unusual election system, there are in essence two counts —the popular vote and the results in the electoral college. The popular vote is your vote — the votes of ...

If you ever watched Saturday morning cartoons and "Schoolhouse Rock," you may be familiar with taking your vote to college – the Electoral College. As the 2024 Presidential Election comes to a ...

Washington, D.C., which doesn’t have voting representation in Congress, has three electoral votes. In all, there are 538 ...

This is because the president is not chosen directly by the voters, but by something called the electoral college. When Americans take part in November's presidential election, most of them will ...