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).
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Alaska has 3 electoral college votes.
In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes (61.7%) and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes (38.3%).
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It had 27 electoral votes.
13,561,900 votes were cast in the 2008 presidential election in California, translating into 55 electoral college votes.
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
A majority. Since there are currently 538 votes, 270 votes are required.
Virginia has 13 electoral votes.
There were 538 electoral votes in the 2012 US presidential election.
NUMBER of ELECTORAL VOTES RECIEVED by RICHARD M. NIXON:1952 : 442 votes for vice president (83.2%)1956 : 457 votes for vice president (86.1%)1960 : 219 votes for president (40.8%)1968 : 301 votes for president (55.9%)1972 : 520 votes for president (96.7%)
Minnesota had 10 electoral votes in 2012.
Wisconsin had 10 electoral votes in the 2008 Presidential election. They will also have 10 electoral votes in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections