the house of representatives votes for president if there is no electoral college majority.
the house of representatives votes for president if there is no electoral college majority.
who votes for president if no electoral college majority?
the house of representatives
the election on november 5, 1968, proved to be extremely close, and it was not until the following morning that the television news networks were able to declare nixon the winner. the key states proved to be california, ohio, and illinois, all of which nixon won by three percentage points or less. had humphrey carried all three of these states, he would have won the election. had he carried only two of them or just california among them, george wallace would have succeeded in his aim of preventing an electoral college majority for any candidate, and the decision would have been given to the house of representatives, at the time controlled by the democratic party. nixon won the popular vote with a plurality of 512,000 votes, or a victory margin of about one percentage point. in the electoral college nixon's victory was larger, as he carried 32 states with 301 electoral votes, compared to humphrey's 13 states and 191 electoral votes and wallace's five states and 46 electoral votes.
1968 united states presidential election
tilden had won the popular vote by almost a quarter of a million votes, but he did not have a clear electoral college majority. he received 184 uncontested electoral votes, while hayes received 165, with both sides claiming the remaining twenty (4 from florida, 8 from louisiana, 7 from south carolina, and 1 from oregon). a total of 185 votes constituted an electoral college majority; hence, tilden needed only one of the disputed votes, while hayes needed all twenty.









































section::::electoral commission act.
electoral commission (united states)