{"slug": "united-states-electoral-college", "label": "United States Electoral College", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47586", "qid": "Q47586", "description": "institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [1789, 1984], "span_label": ["1789 CE", "1984 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 11}], "also_known_as": ["Electoral College (United States)", "U.S. Electoral College", "United States electoral college"], "related": [{"slug": "united-states-house-of-representatives", "label": "United States House of Representatives", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "john-adams", "label": "John Adams", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thomas-jefferson", "label": "Thomas Jefferson", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aaron-burr", "label": 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States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369642987#Events", "title": "1801 in the United States", "revid": 1369642987, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370397745#January–March", "title": "1801", "revid": 1370397745, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370753720#Events", "title": "1824 in the United States", "revid": 1370753720, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 United States presidential election, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#January–March", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States in a contingent election.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370762038#January–March", "title": "1825 in the United States", "revid": 1370762038, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363110094#October–December", "title": "1876 in the United States", "revid": 1363110094, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 – 1888 United States presidential election: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#November", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 – 1984 United States presidential election: Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral College; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota (by a mere 3,761 vote margin) and the District of Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#November", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › November"}}]}