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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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What margin is required to impeach the president?
50% in the House of Representatives 67% in the Senate
If the election of the president becomes the duty of the house of represenatives to elect the president and they do not who becomes president and when?
The Senate would choose the Vice-President, who in turn would act as President until the House reached a decision.
How many times has the House of Representatives had to choose president?
John Quincy Adams in 1825
What happens if the number of electoral votes are not reached?
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.
Under this amendment if no one receives a majority of votes for president the house of representatives shall choose the president?
electoral
