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.
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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50% in the House of Representatives 67% in the Senate
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The Senate must have a two-thirds vote, or at least 67 senators, to convict the president of impeachment, and remove him from office. The same margin is required to decide if the president should be impeached in the House of Representatives.
There are 538 votes in the electoral college and a simple majority of 270 is required to win the presidency. If none of the candidates achieves this, the House votes again with only one vote per state; only 51% is required to win in either case.
A two-thirds majority of the Senate is required to convict the President from office. A simple majority in the House suffices to impeach and force the Senate to hold a trial.
No.
If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority of the total number of electoral votes, the decision is made by the U.S. House of Representatives. Each state delegation in the House gets one vote to choose the president from the three candidates with the most electoral votes.
Yes, because the voters don't choose the President and Vice President; they choose the electors who choose the President and Vice President. A person can be elected President without a majority of electoral votes, too. It happened in 1824. If no candidate has an absolute majority (more than half) of all of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President, and they are not required to vote according to the will of the voters or the electoral college. Since 1964, that required minimum number of votes is 270.
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A simple in the House suffices for the impeachment. The Senate then holds a trial and a 2/3 majority is requited to convict and remove the president from office.
The Senate would choose the Vice-President, who in turn would act as President until the House reached a decision.