How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The result, don't count on Republicans calling for an end to the electoral college any time soon.
  — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
• Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Eric Trump, who the night before had predicted to friends that his father would win with 322 electoral college votes, flipped out in the Map Room.
  — Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• In the weeks leading up to Wednesday's riot, McCarthy brushed off concerns about the electoral college count.
  — Paul Kane, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• The protests coincide with the certification of the votes from the electoral college by the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Dems, Miller warns, would need a far bigger popular vote advantage on November 5 to swing the electoral college.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024