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electoral vote

[ ih-lek-ter-uhl voht, ee-lek-tawr-uhl ]

noun

  1. the vote cast in the Electoral College of the United States by the representatives of each state in a presidential election. Compare popular vote ( def 1 ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of electoral vote1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

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Example Sentences

Having barely lived through that along with the rest of the country, I pray that the popular vote and electoral vote totals align.

Forget Romney winning the popular vote and Obama winning the electoral vote.

It wasn't the popular/electoral vote split that was the problem in 2000, it was the Florida voting.

The outcome will be decided in the battleground states—and here Obama has many more paths to a 270 electoral-vote majority.

Reagan won a landslide of the electoral vote, but less than 51% of the popular vote.

Congress had counted the electoral vote on February 9, giving to Pierce 254 and 42 to Scott.

With two or three exceptions the electoral vote of every state in the Union was carried for Grant and Wilson.

Lincoln had received a majority of the electoral vote but far from a majority of the popular vote.

Fifteen States gave him no electoral vote, and in nine States' he received not a single popular vote.

The returns of the electoral vote in 1828 revealed the sources of Jackson's power.

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