Trump Vs Kamala: Why Candidate With Most Votes Doesn’t Always Become President | U.S. Election

Published on Nov 05, 2024 11:23 am IST

The United States is the only democracy in which even if the maximum number of people vote for a particular presidential candidate, they may still lose the elections. This has happened, at least 4 times - twice in the 1800s, and then twice in the recent past. For example, in 2016, Hillary Clinton actually got nearly 3 million votes more than Donald Trump but it was Trump who finally became the president. This is because the world's oldest democracy has a very unique electoral system, called the Electoral College. Here's how it works! Watch this video.

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