No, Texas has the second most electoral votes, second to California.
Texas with 38 votes is second to California which has 55.
Mitt Romney
the southern part of course. Especially Georgia and even Alabama and Mississippi
Recently, if correct, California had the most electoral college votes with 55 votes.
Andrew Jackson in 1824 Nobody had the required minimum number of votes. When that happens, the House of Representatives elects the president from among the three with the most votes. They chose John Quincy Adams, who had the second-most electoral votes.
California, with 55 electoral votes.
California (54 votes) 2000
Andrew Jackson was the leader in electoral votes and in popular votes in 1824 but he did not get the required majority of electoral votes and so the House decided the election as the constitution requires.
California we have 53 electoral votes.
George Washington was reelected president in 1792 and John Adams was reelected vice-president. According to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting at that time, electors cast votes for two persons. Electors could not distinguish between their presidential and vice-presidential choices. The recipient of the most electoral votes would become president and the runner-up vice-president. George Washington received 132 electoral votes and John Adams received 77 electoral votes. Others receiving electoral votes were George Clinton (50), Thomas Jefferson (4), Aaron Burr (1)
In the 1860 US Presidential Election, Abraham Lincoln won 180 of a possible 303 electoral votes. He needed a simple majority, or 152 votes, to win the election. The candidate with the 2nd most electoral votes was John C. Breckinridge, who captured 72 electoral votes. In the 1860 election, Lincoln's primary support base was the Northeast and the Midwest, which accounted for nearly all of his electoral votes. His competitor Breckinridge collected most of the Southern votes.
Electoral votes are the votes of Congress. California receives 55 electoral votes (the most of any state) because it has 53 representatives and two senators.