The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 9 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana. Therefore, Indiana has 11 electoral votes.
There are a total of 538 electors in the Electoral College for the presidential election. New York State has 29 electors in the Electoral College.
By the population of the state.
Long question, short answer: the Electoral College.
There are 538 Electors in the Electoral College.
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Antebellum South Carolina had a policy of sending electors to the Electoral College based on the voting in the state legislature.
The states choose as many "electors" as it has electoral votes and these electors elect the president. The electors are elected by popular vote in each state and each candidate for elector swears in advance whom he will vote for. The electors vote their electoral votes in the Electoral College.
This group is the electoral college.
In the Electoral College, each state has as many Electors as it has Senators and Representatives, combined. Each state decides whether the Electors are awarded to the candidates on a proportional or winner-takes-all basis.
As a group this is the electoral college- its members are called electors. Nowadays the electors are chosen by popular vote within each state and D.C but at one time in many of the states the state legislature would choose the electors for their state .
The Electoral College is not a college in the traditional sense. Once every four years when the electors meet in the state capitals to cast their votes for president, reporters call that "The Electoral College." Saying "The Electoral College met," is simply a shorthand way of saying, "The Electors met in their respective State Capitals to cast their votes." The second statement is what really happened. The Electoral College does not really exist.
Each state has the number of electors in the Electoral College that equals the total number of US Senators added to the Representatives in the House from that state. If state A has 23 Representatives and 2 Senators (all states have two Senators) then state A would have 25 electoral votes (electors) on the Electoral College.