The Electoral College of 50 US states confirmed the results of the presidential elections and gave 312 votes to the elected President Donald Trump. The candidate of the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris, received 226 votes, CNN reports. Each voter cast his vote for the candidate he was supposed to represent.
Donald Trump will assume the duties of the president in 2025. on January 20. The elections of the US president and vice president are indirect.
US citizens who have the right to vote do not elect specific candidates, but electors, members of the Electoral College.
Voters then cast their votes for the candidate who received the most votes in that state.
The number of members of each state's caucus corresponds to that state's number of members in Congress. The candidate who receives the absolute majority of the voters' votes, at least 270 out of 538, is elected president.
