The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

In the United States, the person elected president is not always the candidate that received the most total votes in an ...

Twenty consecutive elections with comfortable margins for all but one, followed by seven consecutive close outcomes, could be ...

In the United States, the person elected president is not always the candidate that received the most total votes in an ...

The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, ...

Close, chaotic, and contested elections have long been a recurring part of American politics. I’ve always been drawn to that ...

When polls closed across all 28 US states (the country now has 50), Jackson was in the lead with 99 electoral votes, followed ...

The 2000 election between Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush came down to a ...

"When we talk to each other and not at each other, almost anything can be accomplished," writes Drury President Jeff Frederick.

The presidents who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote 1824: John Quincy Adams won the election ... Senate and ran again for president in 1828. That time, he won easily.

We may have to wait a long time to find out who will be president, but there will be decisive moments that will provide ...

Colombia was first, adopting its own electoral college in 1821, followed by Chile (1828), and Argentina ... The House subsequently picked John Quincy Adams, who had in fact lost the popular ...