How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

noun

• Trump lost both the popular vote and the electoral college vote to Biden.
  — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
• And then this was going to be, to witness history, the certification of the electoral college is a big deal.
  — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
• At issue in the race is how deep-red Nebraska splits its electoral college votes in presidential elections.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 May 2026
• Theology, the electoral college, ticks and AI, in readers' eyes.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2026
• Two years later, Harris won California’s electoral college with 58 percent.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• However, the polling is not necessarily indicative of how the two would fare in a presidential election, as these elections are decided through the electoral college, not by popular vote.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• Close attention is paid to the crafting of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the currently moribund system of checks and balances, and that pesky electoral college.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
• Powell argues that Cavanaugh's potential success gives Republicans an opportunity to change how the state awards its electoral college votes to a winner-take all system.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 May 2026
• Advertisement The electoral college system also concentrates campaign activity in a small number of battleground states.
  — Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• The election did not feature a direct popular vote, but rather an electoral college for two-thirds of the government’s 210 seats, with the remainder being appointed by Al-Shara himself.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
• During the 2024 presidential election, Velasco hosted a mock election with his classes serving as the electoral college, and the number of electoral votes allocated to each class was proportional to its size.
  — Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• In The Atlantic, Marc Novicoff predicted that state congressional elections could resemble the winner-take-all electoral college, with Indiana-style efforts to wipe out the opposition party.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
• Its Federal National Council is a 40-member advisory body, half of whose members are indirectly elected through an electoral college of Emirati citizens while the other half are appointed by the rulers of the emirates.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2026
• In September 2024, ahead of Trump winning reelection, 63% of Americans favored the system over the current electoral college process, according to the Pew Research Center.
  — Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• But former President Joe Biden and Harris each managed to carry the district and its one electoral college vote, leaving Democrats optimistic that Bacon’s retirement will aid them in their yearslong quest to reinforce the Blue Dot’s namesake.
  — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2026
• That included an investigation into obstruction of the congressional certification of the 2020 electoral college vote and a recount in the 2018 governor's election in Florida.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025