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

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

some of their electoral votes are split up between Maine’s two and Nebraska’s three congressional districts. Nebraska’s “Blue Dot,” the swing district around Omaha, the state’s largest ...

All but two states use a winner-take-all approach: Maine and Nebraska. Rather than allotting all the state's electoral points to the winner of the statewide popular vote, some of their electoral votes ...

Maine awards its electoral votes similarly, offering four votes in total. There have been multiple instances when Nebraska split its electoral votes, such as in both 2008 and 2020, when former ...

Special Report' Bret Baier explains how the split Electoral Votes in Maine and Nebraska could cause a 269-269 scenario. BAIER: In tonight's 50 Races in 50 Days, we spotlight two races to make good ...

In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes ...

Maine and Nebraska use what's called the "congressional district method," giving two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner and one vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional ...