To be declared the winner, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral college votes.
It depends on how many votes the other candidate is getting. If you were a candidate running for president, and if your opponent had 74 votes, you'd have to get more than that to win the election. If he got 98, you have to get more than 98 to win.
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A Presidential candidate must obtain 270 Electoral Votes (the vote cast in the electoral college of the U.S. by the representatives of each state in a presidential election) to be elected President of the United States.
It does not take a certain amount of votes to become president. The steps are a little bit different than most sommon votes. Each state has an election for the president on the same day. The candidate who wins the majority of the popular vote for that state gets all of that state's electoral college points. Each state has a different number of points in the electoral college sytem based on their population. It takes 270 electoral college points to win an election. For more information, check out http://www.270towin.com/
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To become president they need 265 electoral votes.
To be declared the winner, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral college votes.
180 out of 303 possible electoral votes. He received 40% of the popular vote.
The candidate must receive 270 electoral votes to become president of the United States of America.
In order to become president, one needs 270 electoral votes. Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes, while Mitt Romney only received 206.
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none,electoral college only votes for president n vice president
The president of the United States is the president in all 50 states including Indiana. 270 electoral votes in the Electoral College are needed to win the U.S. presidency.
It cast 31 electoral votes for Obama.
No the next president is decided by the amount of electoral votes the candidate gets. They need to have so many electoral votes to win the elections.
None. He is seeking delegates to the Republican National Convention in an attempt to become the Republican nominee for President--not electors to the Electoral College which he will need to actually become President.