How can the candidate with most votes lose? The US electoral college explained
How can the candidate with most votes lose? The US electoral college explained
Every four years, electoral college members meet in all 50 states and cast their votes – here’s what to know
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States' Senate and House seats are added together to calculate the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College. The Senate is well known for overrepresenting low population states because each state gets 2 seats regardless of their population. Because the House of Representatives has been capped at 435 seats it also overrepresents low population states. These 538 interactive graphs do a good job of visualizing that. edit: there are two graphs
Also, states that vote more heavily for a candidate do not count any more heavily for one candidate or another. It doesn't matter if 60% of your state votes blue or 90%.
Meanwhile a purple state that votes 51% red gives all of their votes to the Republican.
Unless you live in Maine or Nebraska.