• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    How would elections even work if there were three parties? Doesn’t there need to be a majority for the president to be declared? Or is that because of the current two party system? Does it just need to be the party with the most electoral votes, not over 50%?

    If there were three parties and it ended up being 33/33/34, would the party with 34% of the electoral votes be the one to win the presidency?

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      The candidate that gets 270 electoral votes wins. In most states, the candidate who gets the most votes and not a majority wins all the electoral votes for that state.