Decision Day has become divisive but in Dr. Sarah Purcell’s history class at Grinnell College students learn it is hardly ...

That would be the smallest electoral-vote margin in a presidential election since 1876, when Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ...

Not only did the violent insurrection succeed, but the election of 1876 marked the first and only time in American history that a presidential race was not decided by the popular vote, the ...

The results of the 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes were close enough to require recounts of ballots in Louisiana. President Ulysses S. Grant sent this telegram ...

America is the world’s oldest democracy. And part of why it has worked for so long is that people have faith that its ...

America will remain the beacon of the democratic process. We encourage readers to watch and enjoy the certification process unfold in the coming weeks ...

The congressional certification of electoral votes in the upcoming presidential election set ... most notably the contentious election of 1876 and, in more recent times, the elections of 2000 ...

The 2024 presidential election is expected to be a close and contentious affair, with legal challenges and potential “Stop ...

We are studying the most-contested U.S. presidential elections: 1800, 1824, 1860, 1876, 2000 and 2020. Candidates failed to win a majority of electoral votes in 1800 and 1824. Sectional rancor ...

The Electoral College has led to four instances where the popular vote winner did not become president. These occurred in 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016, highlighting the system's potential to produce ...