The electors in each state are elected by the popular vote in the presidential election and swear in advance to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the election in their state.
Each state gets two Senators; House of Representatives members are given by population. Both together equal a state's electoral votes.
There are 538 electors because of the distribution of the Electoral College. Each congressional district gets a vote as well as two for the senators from each state.
The state gets 1 electoral vote for each senator and representative that they have.
The number of Representatives and Senators of the state combined.
The number of electors for a state is determined by the population of the state. The number of electoral votes that a state gets is equal to the number of Representatives that a state has in the House of Representatives plus two (the number of Senators each state has in the Senate). The number of electors each state has is adjusted every ten years, following the national census.
State Senators (U.S Senate) + State Representatives (U.S House of Representatives) = State Electors. Kansas has 2 Senators and 4 Representatives, so they have 6 electoral votes.
2AnswerIn the electoral college, the number that each state gets is equal to the number of senators plus the number of representatives. Each state has 2 senators, and the representatives are based on population. So if a state has 6 representatives in the house, they will get 8 electoral votes.
closeThe number of presidential electors each state appoints is equal to the total of that state's U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators. Since every state has two U.S. Senators, the number of electors is the number of the state's U.S. Representatives plus two.
In all states but Nebraska and Maine, the winner of the popular vote gets all of that state's electoral votes. (Technically, the slate of electors pledged to the winning candidate is elected by the popular vote and these people go on to cast the state's electoral vote. )
In the U.S. there are 538 electors in the Electoral College for the presidential elections. The U.S. Constitution specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have (Article II, Section 1, Clause 2), U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College.
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 House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes.
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 House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for DC).