Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).
Based on the 2010 Census the electoral votes by state are: Alabama - 9, Alaska - 3, Arizona - 11, Arkansas - 6, California - 55, Colorado -9, Connecticut - 7, Delaware - 3, District of Columbia - 3, Florida - 29, Georgia - 16, Hawaii - 4, Idaho - 4, Illinois - 20, Indiana - 11, Iowa - 6, Kansas - 6, Kentucky - 8, Louisiana - 8, Maine - 4, Maryland - 10, Massachusetts - 11, Michigan - 16, Minnesota - 10, Mississippi - 6, Missouri - 10, Montana - 3, Nebraska - 5, Nevada - 6, New Hampshire 4 , New Jersey - 14, New Mexico - 5, New York - 29, North Carolina - 15, North Dakota - 3, Ohio - 18, Oklahoma - 7, Oregon - 7, Pennsylvania - 20, Rhode Island - 4, South Carolina - 9, South Dakota - 3, Tennessee - 11, Texas - 38, Utah - 6, Vermont - 3, Virginia - 13, Washington - 12, West Virginia - 5, Wisconsin - 10, and Wyoming - 3.
Electoral votes are distributed by state, not by county. In 2012, the state of Illinois had 20 votes.
It would have 9 electoral votes.
Alaska has 3 electoral votes. The number of electoral votes can change over time as the population of the state changes.
Two. Each state has two senators regardless of the number of electoral votes.
10 votes each state
This state has 6.
Mitt Romney won the state of Tennessee, and received all of that state's eleven electoral votes.
Utah had 0 electoral votes. Utah did not become a state until 1896.
0. Wisconsin is a winner-take-all state.
The number of electoral votes are based on the population, so each state 'should' have as many electoral votes as needed by their population, with minimum of three. For instance, California is the most populated state and has the most electoral votes, currently at 55. Wyoming and a number of other states are not as populated and have the least electoral votes, currently at 3.
Pennsylvania currently has more electoral votes with 20 electoral votes to Kansas' 6 electoral votes.
No, every state has at least three electoral votes