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Explore the Electoral Decoder!
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VIEW PAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!
Explore all 58 past presidential elections from 1789 - 2020.
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the navigation buttons on the left and right to browse elections or use the timeline below the map to scroll through history. And use the About This Election, Key Events and Related Resources at the bottom of the screen to learn more about the candidates and historic time periods.
USE THE CARTOGRAM FEATURE!
A cartogram can help you understand the importance of certain states in determining the outcome of the Electoral College vote. A cartogram is a type of map in which the size of a region is proportional to data that the map shows—so, the more electoral votes that a state has, the larger it appears on the cartogram.
INSTRUCTIONS: Toggle between the political map view and the cartogram view in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
USE THE PRESIDENTIAL PREDICTOR!
Visit the predictor to decide the outcome of the next presidential election. Who will win? Who will lose? How would you strategize a political campaign?
INSTRUCTIONS: Click on each state to select the winner. Click once for Republican, again for Democrat, and again for Third Party. There are a total of 538 electoral votes and a candidate needs 270 to win.
LEARN MORE ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY
Use the "About This Election", "Key Events" and "Related Resources" to learn more about the candidates and historic time periods. |
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Save and Share!
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SAVE
Predict the presidential election and save your results for later use! After you predict the outcome, you can save your unique electoral map URL by clicking "COPY URL" to the right. Paste or bookmark this URL to refer back to your map.
SHARE
Would you like to share your presidential election prediction? After you predict the outcome for each state, share your map on Twitter andFacebook, and Instagram. |
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Electoral Decoder
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Welcome to the Electoral Decoder!Every four years during federal elections, United States citizens go to the polls to vote for the candidate they want to be the next president. But that’s just one part of the election. The U.S. Constitution requires a process called the Electoral College to determine the outcome of the election. The Electoral College is a process by which each state is assigned a number of votes based on population—so, the more people who live in a state, the more electoral votes that state has. This tool uses a cartogram to help you visualize how each state’s electoral votes affect the outcome of an election. The more electoral votes that a certain state has, the larger it appears on the cartogram. To learn more about cartograms and the Electoral College, click View Instructions. Or, to explore electoral votes for all past presidential elections and to predict the outcome of the current election, click Explore Elections! |
