Analysis: What happens if there’s a tie in 2024? Be ready for a ‘contingent election’ | CNN Politics
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With two candidates fighting over a mere 538 Electoral College votes, a tie scenario is more than possible. It’s actually kind of surprising there has only been one tie election so far, in 1800, between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

If Kamala and trump both tie the electoral college, which it is looking like a possibility, a new president would be chosen by the new Congress on Jan 6th. Scary to think about

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    1% is one in 100. How many US elections have there been with no tie in the electoral college so far?

    • Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 days ago

      Of all 59 presidential elections there hasn’t ever been a tie. There have been 3 contingent elections where no candidate got a majority of electors in the electoral college:1800, 1824, 1836. The last one being unique because Van Buren got enough electors in the general election but Virginias’ electors were faithless and wouldn’t vote for him leading to it get shoved to the house where they handedly voted him in.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      538polling estimates this election ends in a tie currently at 4 in 1000 elections, so pretty damn unlikely. That’s a 1 in 250 chance.