The total is not likely to change unless new states are added. However, the number of votes assigned to each state changes very 10 years when congressional seats are re-apportioned as a result of the new census.
VA has 13 electoral votes. The 2010 census did not change that number.
Alaska has 3 electoral votes. The number of electoral votes can change over time as the population of the state changes.
Change of population.
270 electoral votes
The last time the number of California's electoral votes changed was between 2000 and 2004.
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, Colorado has 9 electoral votes, Kansas has 6 electoral votes, and Washington has 12 electoral votes.
There were 296 electoral votes in 1856.
270 electoral votes.
In the Election of 2012, the state with the largest number of electoral college votes will be California, with 55 electoral votes.
Andrew Jackson, with 99 electoral votes.
Electoral votes are based on population. Each state gets the same number of electoral votes as the number of Congressmen in the House of Representatives. Idaho, with a small population has two Congressmen and hence, two electoral votes.
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 5 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma. Therefore, Oklahoma has 7 electoral votes.