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There are 538 Electors in the Electoral College.
Electors.
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.
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8. The amount of members from each state in the United States Electoral College is equal to the number of representatives sent by the state to Congress. If a state has six members in the House of Representatives, it also is represented by two Senators. This brings the total to 8.
This group is called the electoral college; its members are called electors and the votes it casts are called electoral votes.
The number of Representatives and Senators of the state combined.
This group is the electoral college.
If a state has four members in the house of representatives, that state will have a total of 6 representatives at the electoral college. The state has one for each representative and one for each senator. Every state has 2 senators, so the state will have 4 for the representatives and 2 for the senators.
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 .
Overall there are a total of 538 electors and so 538 electoral votes.Each state gets one electoral vote for each member of the House of Representatives and two electoral votes for the number of Senators. The number of members in the House of Representatives was fixed at 435 in 1911 and there are two senators from each state, for a total of 535 votes from all of the states. The District of Columbia get 3 votes to make the grand total 538.It follows that the majority required to elect is 270 votes. (538/2 + 1 = 270)538