Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide.

It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College​. This map shows ...

Unlike most states, Maine and Nebraska distribute their electoral college votes in a manner that is more closely tied to the ...

Source: Election results and race calls are from The Associated Press. The Times publishes its own estimates for each candidate’s share of the final vote and the number of remai ...

Rather than allotting all the state's electoral points to the winner of the statewide popular vote, some of their electoral ...

Each of these has a single electoral vote that could determine the presidential election. OK, first, let's start in the state of Maine. It is one of only two states to split its electoral votes ...

The Electoral College is used to choose the winner of the presidential election, but the number of votes in the College that each state receives changes every year. The Electoral College was ...

Then there's Nebraska and Maine. Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart ...

Rather than allotting all the state's electoral points to the winner of the statewide popular vote, some of their electoral votes are split up between Maine ... the 2024 election," he said.