2007-09-26 11:31:26 · 8 answers · asked by swimmergirl_1994 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The majority of them.
2007-09-26 11:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by Yo it's Me 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Each state has one electoral vote for each representative in the House ans the Senate. There are 435 members of the House and 100 Senators. That makes 535 electoral votes. In addition, Washington DC gets 3 vote. That brings the total to 538 votes. Half of 538 is 269. That means 270 electoral votes are a majority. If no one candidate receives a majority, the House picks a winner from the top 3 candidates. The Senate picks the Vice President in such a case.
Note: While it will probably never happen, it is POSSIBLE to receive 1 electoral vote and become president. This would happen is 1 candidate received exactly half the votes, a second received 1 less, and a third person received the final vote. The House COULD elect the third person president.
2007-09-26 13:30:55 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If no candidate for President receives an absolute electoral majority 270 votes out of the 538 possible, then the new House of Representatives is required to go into session immediately to vote for President. (This would likely just occur when more than two candidates receive electoral votes, but could theoretically happen in a two-person contest, if each received exactly 269 electoral votes). In this case, the House of Representatives chooses from the three candidates who received the most electoral votes, but could not establish a majority of votes in the College. The House votes en-bloc by state for this purpose (that is, one vote per state, which is determined by the majority decision of the delegation from that state; if a state delegation is evenly split, a deadlock normally results, and that state is considered as abstaining). This vote would be repeated if necessary until one candidate receives the votes of more than half the state delegations—at least 26 state votes, given the current number, 50, of states in the union. If no candidate for Vice President receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, then the United States Senate must do the same, with the top two vote getters for that office as candidates.
http://www.electoralvote.com/
2007-09-26 11:43:11 · answer #3 · answered by JS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
See how taken all of you are; the answers assume a two-party system...exactly what they want and why the electoral rules apply rather than a majority. What if there were 3 or 4 weak or strong candidates, then 270 would be impossible to obtain. Anyway, there is a reason for the 51/49 results in the past several elections. Drop you Democratic & Republican badges; it is independents (American to the core) that they fear(ed) because..well you all figure out why.
2013-12-03 12:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Tanner 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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131 electoral votes were needed to win. Since neither of the 4 candidates received enough it went to the house of represenatives. Adams was declared the winner after a long and lengthy dispute. Henry Clay pledged his electors for Adams in return to be Adams Secretary of State.
2016-04-02 08:23:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
270
2007-09-26 11:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by secretservice 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
270
2007-09-26 11:33:17 · answer #7 · answered by a milli 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
270 electoral votes are needed to become President of the United States.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_electoral_votes_does_it_take_to_win_the_presidential_election
Hope this helps.
2007-09-26 11:36:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋