How are electoral college votes apportioned per state?

Answer 1

Each state appoints a number of electors equal to the total number of U. S. Senators and Representatives to which the state is entitled, and the District of Columbia appoints 3 electors according to the rules set in the 23rd Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

Seats in the U. S. House of Representatives are apportioned based on each state's population relative to the population of all of the states, and they are reapportioned after each official U. S. Census. (The number of Senators is two per state.)

Answer 2

The delegates to the Electoral College are in theory compelled to vote for the candidates (President and Vice President) who won the popular vote in their individual State, with the exception of Maine and Nebraska, both of whom allocate their delegates proportionately by Congressional District (which is how Barack Obama won one vote in Nebraska in 2008 by winning the Omaha-based Congressional District). Delegates in the Electoral College are not always obedient, and have on occasion voted for other candidates.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Since the election of 1824, most states have appointed their electors on a winner-take-all basis, based on the statewide popular vote on Election Day. Maine and Nebraska are the only two current exceptions, as both states use the congressional district method. In a winner-take-all state, all of the state's Electoral votes go to whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate). Maine and Nebraska use the "congressional district method", selecting one elector within each congressional district by popular vote and awarding two electors by a statewide popular vote.

Answer 5

Electoral college votes are allocated based on a state's population, as determined by the most recent national census.