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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Status as of April 2024:
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270
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Each square in the cartogram represents one electoral vote.

  •   Enacted – 209 EVs (38.8% of Electoral College)
  •   Pending – 83 EVs (15.4%)
  •   In hearing – 140 EVs (26%)
  •   Not enacted, pending nor in hearing – 106 EVs (19.7%)[1]
  • | Threshold for activation – 270 EVs (50% plus one)
DraftedJanuary 2006
EffectiveNot in effect
ConditionAdoption by states (and D.C.) whose electoral votes comprise a majority in the Electoral College. The agreement is binding only where adopted.
Signatories
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Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote at Wikisource

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[2][3]

  1. ^ Progress in the States Archived May 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, National Popular Vote.
  2. ^ "National Popular Vote". National Conference of State Legislatures. NCSL. March 11, 2015. Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  3. ^ Brody, Michael (February 17, 2013). "Circumventing the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Survives Constitutional Scrutiny Under the Compact Clause". Legislation and Policy Brief. 5 (1). Washington College of Law Journals & Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law: 33, 35. Archived from the original on March 27, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2014.