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According to the Constitution, if no candidate for President wins a majority (i.e. 50% +1 or higher) of the Electoral Votes cast, then the election is sent to the House of Representatives, which chooses from among the candidates with the five highest Electoral Vote totals.

Abraham Lincoln won several States in 1860 by very small margins. One of these was New York, where he won with only 53.7% of the popular vote against a fusion ticket headed by Stephen Douglas, the Democratic challenger. As it happens, Lincoln's margin of victory in the election was 35 Electoral Votes...exactly the number of Electoral Votes which New York had in 1860. If New York had swung the other way, the Electoral Votes would have been 134 for Lincoln and 169 combined for the other candidates, and Lincoln would not have had the Electoral Majority (152) needed to win. The election would have been cast into the House. (Note, if you don't like the New York scenario, the same result can be achieved several other ways using States which went for Lincoln in OTL by even smaller margins).

So lets say this happens. What is the likely result? Who emerges as President of the United States?
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