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Presidential Election Question

I’m just curious: what would happen if a presidential candidate was elected with more electoral votes than any other candidate, but got a minority vote? (That is, got less than 50% of the vote, because there would be more than 2 POPULAR parties) As an example, I’ll make up 3 candidates, and their percentages of electoral votes.

Andrew Warsack - 40%
Amy Keenly - 30%
Julian DeFranco - 20%

None of them got more than 50% of the electoral votes, and since this COULD technically happen, I’m curious as to what would happen. How would they choose the President? Would there be Co-Presidents, or something in that manner? What would happen?

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Nante offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 29 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (7 minutes after post)

Well I dont think it could happen because of the nominations since only two people are nominated and republicans and democrats are a majority, so as long as most of them vote for one of the two, that cant happen.

However this kind of thing happens/happend in france cause they had so many political parties and their democracy fell apart or something.

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An Undisclosed Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (8 minutes after post)

That is not how it works; Percentages don’t count. Electoral college votes are tallied and the winner “must” receive 270 electoral votes to win.

If no person receives 270 electoral votes than the House of Representative decides who is the next president and the senate decides the Vice President.

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (9 minutes after post)

Da⌐11 wrote:
That is not how it works; Percentages don’t count. Electoral college votes are tallied and the winner “must” receive 270 electoral votes to win.If no person receives 270 electoral votes than the House of Representative decides who is the next president and the senate decides the Vice President.

Oh yeah..

Well, I feel silly for forgeting about that..

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (19 minutes after post)

Da⌐11 wrote:
That is not how it works; Percentages don’t count. Electoral college votes are tallied and the winner “must” receive 270 electoral votes to win.

If no person receives 270 electoral votes than the House of Representative decides who is the next president and the senate decides the Vice President.

Alright thank you, that’s what I was looking for. And when I said percentages, I meant out of all 568 electoral votes, not the popular vote. For instance, 40% might be 227, 30% would be 170, and 20% would be 114 (Ok let’s say someone else, such as Joshua Marlin, got 10%, or 57, just to get the math right).

Thank you, however, for informing me that it wasn’t just for ties that they decide.

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An Undisclosed Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (16 hours, 10 minutes after post)

Going into this past election; based on the level of support McCain and Obama where getting from each state; there was small possibility that both men could have ended up 269 electoral votes each. Neither man reaching the 270 needed to win. While this possibility was very small people where taking pleasure mussing about what would happen if it happened.

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