Sentence examples for electoral vote for from inspiring English sources

Thurmond drew the votes of only 2.4 percent of the public, though he garnered more than one million votes; because his supporters were concentrated heavily in the South, he was able to win four states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) and 39 electoral votes (one Tennessee elector cast his electoral vote for Thurmond rather than Truman, the state's winner).

He secured 271 electoral college votes to Al Gore's 266 (one elector abstained from casting an electoral vote for the latter).

Three of the votes were not cast at all as three electors chose to abstain from casting their electoral vote for any candidate.

Texas elector Christopher Suprun, "Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump," New York Times 12/05/16.

Each state gets one electoral vote for every member it has in the House and Senate; the actual electors are chosen by parties and voters in the states.

But then something else is added: an electoral vote for each senator.

1. c. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in a presidential election year, voters select the electors who cast their electoral votes for the candidate of the voters' choice.

proclaiming that he would help "Ohio deliver its electoral votes" for Bush.

Florida boasts 29 electoral votes, for instance, while Mississippi has six.

Congress must also convene in a joint session to count the electoral votes for the president and vice president.

In addition to losing both the popular and electoral votes for president, the Republicans lost nearly every swing state.