The Independent’s data correspondent looks at the numbers you need to know from the 2024 election, from how many states were ...

Presidential elections in the U.S. aren't decided by popular vote. They are instead determined by the Electoral College. Here ...

Florida has a total of 30 electoral votes, the third most in the United States. That number is equal to the number of ...

A presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency in the U.S. The number of electoral votes each state ...

Each state's number of electoral votes in U.S. presidential elections is determined by its representation in Congress. Here’s ...

One might respond, as many contend, that we should scrap the Electoral College altogether in favor of the popular vote total ... a level of unhappiness with current process that is as high ...

Since that census and during the Biden-Harris administration, 10 million more legal and illegal migrants have come into the U.S., a number that alone could shift 13 more electoral votes.

To win the presidential election, a candidate needs to capture 270 of the 538 total electoral votes ... only once under the current rules of the Electoral College: the 1824 presidential election.