Winner-take-all allocation
CLEP American Government, Chapter 31
Winner-take-all allocation
Winner-take-all is a state rule for allocating presidential electors. In most states and the District of Columbia, the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote receives the entire electoral slate. A narrow plurality can therefore produce all of that jurisdiction's electoral votes. The Constitution does not require this method; states adopted it through their authority to appoint electors.
Maine and Nebraska use a different arrangement. They award two electors to the statewide winner and one elector to the winner of each congressional district. This district method can divide a state's electoral votes between candidates. Neither system changes the number of electors assigned to the state. It changes only how the state distributes them after the popular vote.
The exam often tests the strategic consequence. Under winner-take-all, gaining extra votes in a state a candidate is already certain to win may add no electoral votes. A small shift in a closely divided state can transfer the entire slate. Keep the rule distinct from the Electoral College itself: the College is constitutional, while winner-take-all is the dominant state-law choice within it.
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