Electoral Vote, how does it work?
In America there is an institution called Electoral College thru which the Americans vote their President and Vice President. When the people vote they do not directly vote their President and Vice President but instead they vote for official electors. These Official electors will be the ones to cast the vote for President and Vice President thru Electoral College.
Each Presidential candidate has an assembly of Electors assigned to that candidate and each state is allotted a number of electors equal to the number of its representative and senators in the US congress. When the candidate wins by popular vote in a particular district, the electors assigned to that candidate will be the one to vote to the Electoral College. However when there is close election wherein there is a vote deadlock the Electoral College decides who will win the election and sometimes its not the candidate with the most popular vote.