Us Elections Results History, Presenting The Least Misleading Map Of The 2016 Election The Washington Post

This year the race to the white house is between the current us president donald trump and his democratic rival and former.

Closest presidential election in popular vote. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the us. This page links to the results of those historical elections including a larger map results and synopsis of the race. A history professor allan lichtman is one of those rare experts who has correctly predicted all the us elections since 1984.

You can find the results of past federal elections from several government sources. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. Stay calm and fingers crossed.

The election of the president and the vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the fifty us. Roosevelt won 985 percent or 523 of the 538 electoral votes up for grabs that year. To view maps and results from all prior presidential elections on a single page see this historical elections timeline.

History was democrat franklin delano roosevelts 1936 victory against republican alfred m. 2 in early elections electors were chosen by legislatures not by popular vote in many states. An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history.

The most lopsided president election in us. United states presidential elections in pennsylvania occur when voters in the us. These reports are run by state every two years and are available for elections from 1982 to 2016.

Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election. In a united states presidential election the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and washington dc. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular votehowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president.

Federal election commission resources. 1 in elections from 1789 to 1804 each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. Year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3.

The federal election commission releases the official results of federal elections. States or in washington dc cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college. Electoral college who pledge to vote for a specific political partys nominee for president.

We may not know donald trump versus joe biden result on the night of november 3. A quick history of delayed us election results sure it could happen.