Which States Are Winner Take All?

Since 1996, all but two states have followed the winner takes all method of allocating electors by which every person named on the slate for the ticket winning the statewide popular vote are named as presidential electors. Maine and Nebraska are the only states not using this method.

Which states are not winner-take-all?

Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, do not follow this winner-take-all method. In those states, electoral votes are proportionally allocated. Can a candidate win the electoral vote, but lose the popular vote? Yes.

How many states use winner-take-all?

Note that 48 out of the 50 States award Electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis (as does the District of Columbia).