The Electoral College

The Electoral College is the process the Constitution establishes for electing the President: instead of a direct national popular vote deciding the winner, each state, along with Washington, D.C., is assigned a certain number of electors, roughly based on population, and, in every state except Maine and Nebraska, whichever candidate wins the most votes there receives all of that state's electoral votes. A candidate needs a majority of the total electoral votes nationwide to win outright through this process (if no candidate reaches a majority, the House of Representatives decides the election instead), which means it is possible, though uncommon, for a candidate to win the presidency while receiving fewer individual popular votes nationwide than their opponent.

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