If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US.
Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
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the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes. the people running for president must have a tie in electoral votes.
To choose a President, the margin in the electoral college must be 51 percent or 270. There are 538 votes in the electoral college.
50% in the House of Representatives 67% in the Senate
The Senate would choose the Vice-President, who in turn would act as President until the House reached a decision.
John Quincy Adams in 1825
The required number is more than half of the total. If no candidate gets this required majority, the House of Representatives chooses the president from among the top three candidates using a special procedure in which each state gets one vote.
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