According to the US Electoral College Web site, Idaho has four electoral votes.
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Idaho had three votes in each of the presidential elections from 1892 through 1908, and they have had four votes in every presidential election since then.
Number of Electors from Idaho per U.S. Presidential Election:
North Carolina is the only state with 15 electoral votes.
The non- state with electoral votes is the District of Columbia (DC)
Because people like Minnesota more than Idaho.
The United States the House of Representatives has a total of 435 members which is based on the population of each state, the more people that live in a state the more members in the House of Representatives that state will have. In the Senate there are 100 Senators, 2 from each state. When we add these two numbers up it gets us to 535. Washington, D. C. is given 3 electoral votes as well. Add those 3 electoral votes to the 535 and we wind up with a total of 538 electoral votes. 269 votes is half, and 270 electoral votes is the majority and is what is needed to win the election.
Electoral votes are sent from each state to Congress to be counted.
Electoral votes are based on population. Each state gets the same number of electoral votes as the number of Congressmen in the House of Representatives. Idaho, with a small population has two Congressmen and hence, two electoral votes.
Idaho is a red state (it leans Republican) and Mitt Romney received its 4 electoral votes in the 2012 election.
Barack Obama received 0 electoral votes from Idaho in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.In 2008, Barack Obama received 0 electoral votes from Idaho, losing Idaho's 4 electoral votes to John McCain whom received 403,012 votes to Obama's 236,440.In 2012, Barack Obama lost the state's 4 electoral votes to Mitt Romney who received 420,750 votes to Obama's 212,560.
George W. Bush received all four Idaho electoral votes.
Donald Trump received 4 electoral votes, receiving 409,055 votes to Hillary Clinton's 189,765 votes, winning Idaho.
Hillary Clinton received 0 of 4 electoral votes, receiving 189,765 votes to Donald Trump's 409,055 votes, losing Idaho.
According to the US Electoral College Web site, Idaho has four electoral votes, and has had 4 since 1912. It had 3 electoral votes in the 5 elections before, starting with 1892 after Idaho's admission in 1890.
John McCain received 4 electoral votes from Idaho in the 2008 presidential election by receiving 403,012 votes to Barack Obama's 236,440 votes.
He will receive four electoral votes in Idaho. The election has not happened yet, but the Republicans would win Idaho even if they didn't run a candidate.
Donald Trump received 409,055 votes to Hillary Clinton's 189,765 votes, winning Idaho's 4 electoral votes.
Hillary Clinton received 189,765 votes to Donald Trump's 409,055 votes, losing Idaho's 4 electoral votes.
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