How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

noun

• Trump's edge in the electoral college came from close wins in swing states.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 6 July 2020
• Jimmy Carter squeaked by in Texas, by three points, and in the electoral college by 57 votes.
  — Rick Perlstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Days later, Biden secured the electoral college votes needed to win.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
• How many electoral college votes do the seven battleground states have?
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024