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Voter guide washington state 2020. Closest us presidential elections in history updated friday 6 nov 2020 0842. 8 most contentious us presidential elections 1. Article two of the constitution originally established the method of presidential elections including the creation of the electoral college the result of a compromise between those constitutional framers who wanted the congress to choose the president and those who preferred a national popular vote.

As set forth in article two each state is allocated a number of. 2 in early elections electors were chosen by legislatures not by popular vote in many states. The first us presidential election in 1789 was a unanimous win for george washington with 69 seats in the electoral college at the time.

Presidential election except the 1864 election during the american civil war when the state had seceded to join the confederacy and the 1868 election when the state was undergoing reconstruction. Government and the quadrennial us. This page links to the results of those historical elections including a larger map results and synopsis of the race.

Presidential electiononly the fourth election in the young nations historythere was a problem. 1 in elections from 1789 to 1804 each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. When the electoral votes were tallied in the 1800 us.

An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. The 2016 campaign between donald trump and hillary clinton was the 13th closest in the countrys history with trump losing the popular vote by 3 million but winning the electoral college 304 227. 1800 as fans of the broadway musical hamilton well know this election went down just as the nations first political parties were taking shape.

Fittingly the first election would become the only election in us history to see a unanimous victory. The united states is rare among democracies in that the role of president is not primarily ceremonial as it is in most parliamentary governments but is instead the most powerful role in us. Today there are 538 seats in the electoral college and many elections see very small margins for victory.

The race between george w bush and al gore went to the us supreme court. Following is a table of united states presidential elections in texas ordered by yearsince its admission to statehood in 1845 texas has participated in every us.