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270 electoral votes are needed to win the U.S. presidency. 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). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of 538.
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Does it take 270 electoral votes to win the presidency?
Yes.
If there are 17 electoral votes in Wisconsin how many electoral votes will the loser get?
0. Wisconsin is a winner-take-all state.
How many electoral votes does Tucson have today?
Tucson does not have any electoral votes. Based on the 2010 Census, Arizona has 11 electoral votes. Arizona appoints its electors on a winner-take-all basis, based on the Arizona statewide popular vote on Election Day.
How many electoral votes did Hillary Clinton get from New York?
Mccain had 0 electoral votes in New york, because of the winner take all status of New York's electoral votes, mccain did not get any in New York.
How does Florida determine how many electoral votes each candidate will get?
Florida gives all of its electoral votes to the Presidential candidate that received the most votes. This is a winner-take-all system. A majority of votes is not needed, merely a plurality.
What Pennsylvania cities get electoral votes?
No city in Pennsylvania gets electoral votes. Based on the 2010 Census, Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes. Pennsylvania casts all of its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the popular election in Pennsylvania gets all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
Can Pa split its electoral votes?
Pennsylvania casts its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the popular election in Pennsylvania gets all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
How electoral votes does it take to win the Electoral College?
270 electoral votes are needed to win the U.S. presidency. 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). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of 538.
How are Texas' electoral votes divided?
Texas casts its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the presidential election on Election Day in Texas gets all of Texas' electoral votes.
How many electoral votes did Barack Obama receive in Connecticut?
In 2008, Barack Obama won 7 electoral votes in Connecticut by winning the state with 997,772 votes to McCain's 629,428 votes.In 2012, the election has not yet taken place. Projections anticipate that Obama will again take the 7 electoral votes from Connecticut.
If candidate wins Ga by 0.2 how many electoral votes do they get?
It's a "winner-take-all" system, so the margin of victory doesn't matter. The winner receives all of the state's electoral votes.
Are all states of equal importance under the electoral college system?
No. Not only do electoral votes have an enormous disparity in the number of voters represented, but the awarding of all of a state's votes to one candidate means that votes for other candidates become effectively moot. The "winner take all" system makes the states with more electoral votes more important in the election. The presidential candidate with the most votes wins all the electoral votes of the state (in 48 states). The result is that winning a few large population states, even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. A candidate who received 51% of the vote in just 11 large "swing" states could win the Presidency with as little as 25% of the popular vote. (This is, however, unlikely.)
