How does the President of the United States get elected in the November election?

1. Each state is broken up into districts depending on your state's population. Higher the population the more districts you will have. This makes it so that your state population is proportionately represented in the House of Representatives.
• California has 53 districts, Arizona has 9 districts, and Montana only has 1 district.
2. In each states district, the people elect a person to the house of representative every two years.
• The US has 435 districts, so it has 435 representatives in the House of Representatives.
3. Each state also elects 2 people to the Senate. US senators are not based on the state’s population. Each state has an equal representation in the Senate.
• 50 states = 100 senators in the Senate.
• U.S Senators serve a term of 6 years
• 1/3 of the senate is up for reelection every 2 years.
4. American voters go to polls and cast a vote for the President of the United States Every 4 years. It is on the first Tuesday in November, after the first Monday.
5. The people of each district's vote is a suggestion for their district's electorate to vote as they have. Some states have laws that say the delegate must vote as the people have suggested, but not all. 
• House Representatives have a term limit of 2 years.
• They are always willing to listen because after they win an election they are soon preparing for the next one
6. The winning president will exceed 270 of the total 538 Delegates available to them.
• 435 House Delegates
• 100 Senate Delegates
• 3 delegates from the District of Columbia (Constitutional 23^rd amendment)
7. The winner of each state's electoral votes will receive all the delegates for the entire state in almost all cases.  
• This is why states like California holding 55 delegates are more important to the presidential hopefuls than Montana with only 3.
• In 2012 Barack Obama received only 60.24% of votes in California, and received all 55 delegates
8. Now that we know we have 538 actual votes for the President of the United States. Does Congress vote for us in the Electoral College? No! 
• The first part of the process is controlled by the political parties in each state and varies from state to state.
• The second part of the process happens on election day. When the voters in each state cast votes for the presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their state's electors. The potential electors names may or may not appear on the ballot below the name of the presidential candidates, depending on election procedures and ballot formats in each state. 

Your vote for President of the United States counts as a suggestion for a person that is already chosen by the party you are voting for. Only 538 actually people vote for President of the United States. The popular vote was not enough for Al Gore in 2000 when he had 48.4% of the popular vote, but only 266 state delegates. George W. Bush’s had 47.9% of the popular vote with 271 state delegates.