Why was the Electoral College created in the first place? Whether the Electoral College is fair or necessary is subject to ...

States award electoral votes largely on a winner-takes-all basis, with a candidate needing a majority of 270 votes to win.

How the US chooses the president is under scrutiny as an increasing number of Americans favor scrapping the current system in ...

The U.S. presidential election is a complex process that extends beyond the popular vote, leading to an ongoing debate about ...

Election experts expect the main law enacted in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol to pass its first major ...

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

Donald Trump won Pennsylvania and Georgia bringing his electoral vote tally to 267. Kamala Harris stands at 214.

during a presidential debate in September. Source: AFP. In the early US presidential election results, Republican candidate ...

The rest of the world finds this arrangement incomprehensible. Although the process varies in the details elsewhere, heads of ...

Following the Associated Press' latest projection, Trump leads the Electoral College with 210 votes to Harris' 112 votes ...

When political outsider Donald Trump defied polls and expectations to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential ...

In all but five, two in this century, the president has won both the popular votes and the Electoral College votes.