Louisiana voters picked the winning presidential candidate in every election from 1972 to 2004. The streak was broken in 2008, when Republican John McCain won the state but lost the White House.

Crunching the numbers. Roughly 136 million people voted in the 2016 presidential election. If we divide the total number of electoral votes – 538 – by the total number of voters, we can ...

NEW ORLEANS — Members of the Electoral College met Monday in state capitals across the country to cast their votes and finalize the 2020 election process. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s eight ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Donald Trump kept Louisiana in the Republican fold Tuesday, winning the state's eight electoral votes in his presidential bid. History was on his side entering the race ...

While there is no official deadline to mail a ballot in Louisiana, the suggested date was Oct. 26. Ballots must be received by Nov. 2 in order to be counted. 1,255,776 856,034 1,228,908 In 2016 ...

For example, as the Washington Post noted shortly after the election, Wyoming has three electoral votes and a population of 586,107, while California has 55 electoral votes and 39,144,818 residents.

Donald Trump kept Louisiana in the Republican fold Tuesday, winning the state’s eight electoral votes in his presidential bid. History was on his side entering the race. Louisiana hadn’t given its ...

The number of votes cast in the 2020 presidential election in Louisiana, so far, ... and Louisiana is expected to cast its electoral votes for Trump.

In the end, seven electors voted for a person other than the candidate who won their states — the largest number of electoral college desertions in a presidential contest in U.S. history ...

The Electoral College has also awarded the presidency to candidates with the most popular votes but not a majority (more than half) in a number of cases, notably Abraham Lincoln in 1860, John F ...

The Electoral College has also awarded the presidency to candidates with a plurality of the popular vote (under 50 percent) in a number of cases, notably Abraham Lincoln in 1860, John F. Kennedy ...