How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

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Definition of electoral collegenext
  • There was enough votes, electoral college votes, for Trump to win last night.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The 538 website takes its name from the number of electors in the U.S. electoral college.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2024
  • Even so, polling suggests a tight race for the state’s 15 electoral college votes.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Eastman had urged Pence to call for a delay in the counting of the electoral college votes on Jan. 6.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In another, the camera zooms in on King in front of the electoral college map.
    — Giulia Heyward and Saba Hamedy, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Those electors will cast votes in the electoral college.
    — Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • In a game of inches—as the 2016 battle for the electoral college was—that could make the difference.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The man lost by 4 million popular votes and still had a chance to win the electoral college.
    — Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The state’s four electoral college votes are only 0.7% of the whole kit and kaboodle.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In 2020, a vote shift of less than a percentage point in three close-run states would have changed the outcome in the electoral college.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • It’s one of a handful of states that for years has been projected to lose a seat - and the electoral college vote that goes along with it.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 15 Apr. 2021
  • An attempt to change the state’s electoral college system failed last week on an 8-36 vote.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • In the electoral college system, the person who receives the most votes overall may not win.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The path to 270 electoral college votes appeared to favor Biden late Wednesday, but was still too close to call.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • This is part of the reason Democrats loathe the electoral college these days and Republicans love it.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Arizona has 11 electoral college votes, placing it in a tie for 14th-most votes among states.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Ohio was a more important state for Trump to win on the way to 270 electoral college votes; Biden had more paths to get there without Ohio.
    — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Trump, who is behind in the current electoral college county, has vowed to fight the results.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Most states have some kind of regulation as to how members of the electoral college should vote.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Remember that Democrats won the popular vote by two points in 2016, but still lost the electoral college.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • But a 1 to 2 percentage point Biden popular vote win equates to just a 22% chance of a Biden electoral college win.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • On the phone with Pence, Pelosi expressed a desire to move forward with the process of affirming the electoral college results.
    — Caroline Linton, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states award all of their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state.
    — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Trump’s in Pennsylvania, where a trove of 20 electoral college votes was at stake.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • In the 19 presidential elections since the end of World War II, the results of the electoral college and the popular vote matched closely.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • President Biden won New Hampshire and its four electoral college votes with 52 percent of the votes cast.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The result, don't count on Republicans calling for an end to the electoral college any time soon.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Days later, Biden secured the electoral college votes needed to win.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Dems, Miller warns, would need a far bigger popular vote advantage on November 5 to swing the electoral college.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

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