2020 US Elections: How is the winner decided? – BBC News

both candidates compete to win election college votes. Each state gets a certain number of votes in an election university depending on its population and a total of 538 are available, so the winner is a candidate who wins 270 or more. This means that voters have to decide on state contests rather than national ones, which is why it is possible for a candidate to win the most votes nationally – as Hillary Clinton did in 2016 – but defeat electoral colleges. Please subscribe HERE .

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