Since Election Day, president-elect Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed that he has a “mandate” to govern.

As the last of the election results are coming in from slow-counting Arizona, the returns from around the country have revealed a dramatic shift in the electorate that both major parties are trying to ...

The US president-elect has emphasised the scale of his win – but data shows that most voters picked someone else.

For votes counted through Nov. 20, Trump’s margin over Harris was 1.62%. That’s smaller than any winner since Bush in 2000, when the margin was 0.51%. Going back further, only John F. Kennedy in 1960 ...

I hate to say that “I told you so”, but……I told you so. In my column of October 21st, entitled, “The Campaign Based on Hate ...

Ronald Reagan carried New York twice (the second time by 8 percentage points). No, Republicans didn’t actually create the “Electoral College lock” that Democrats feared after 1984 ...

These are the Electoral College votes a candidate needs to win the presidency. The system has been around since the first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes.

In order to win the U.S. presidential election, a candidate must win in enough states to have 270 Electoral College votes. States will begin to report results as polls close on election night.

It's Election Day, which means it's time for a quick crash course on the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the key to the American presidential voting process, created by the Founding ...

With Election Day finally here, it's time to delve into the rules behind the Electoral College and how it decides who will be the next president. The Electoral College, which was first created in ...

A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the Pew Research Center. But the system has survived an unprecedented ...

Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, who have claimed both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Here's how his victory compares to the most recent notable Republican wins. In his ...