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.
It is not broken down into the two houses but a total number of 530. All a candidate needs is 265 of those votes to win the election.
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Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.PA has 17 electoral votes
There were 538 electoral votes in the 2012 US presidential election.
The US Senate would choose the vice president from among the top three if no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes.
It cast 31 electoral votes for Obama.
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The electoral votes are unsealed and counted under direction of the vice-president of the US acting as the president of the Senate at a joint session of the new Congress early in January following the election .
The State of California has a total of 55 electoral votes. This represents their 53 House representatives and 2 US senators.
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).
The maximum number of electoral votes that a presidential candidate could receive is 538. 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).
There are 538 electoral votes. The presedential candidate needs to win 270 in order to be elected president.
To be declared the winner, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral college votes.
McCain received all of Alabama's 9 electoral votes in the 2008 US presidential election.