Is it true each state gets the same number of votes in the electoral college?

Answer 1

No, that is not true. Every state does not get the same number of votes in the electoral college.

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 U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).

Based on the 2010 Census the electoral votes by state are: Alabama - 9, Alaska - 3, Arizona - 11, Arkansas - 6, California - 55, Colorado -9, Connecticut - 7, Delaware - 3, District of Columbia - 3, Florida - 29, Georgia - 16, Hawaii - 4, Idaho - 4, Illinois - 20, Indiana - 11, Iowa - 6, Kansas - 6, Kentucky - 8, Louisiana - 8, Maine - 4, Maryland - 10, Massachusetts - 11, Michigan - 16, Minnesota - 10, Mississippi - 6, Missouri - 10, Montana - 3, Nebraska - 5, Nevada - 6, New Hampshire 4 , New Jersey - 14, New Mexico - 5, New York - 29, North Carolina - 15, North Dakota - 3, Ohio - 18, Oklahoma - 7, Oregon - 7, Pennsylvania - 20, Rhode Island - 4, South Carolina - 9, South Dakota - 3, Tennessee - 11, Texas - 38, Utah - 6, Vermont - 3, Virginia - 13, Washington - 12, West Virginia - 5, Wisconsin - 10, and Wyoming - 3.

Answer 2

No, each state may appoint a number of electors equal to the total number of U. S. Senators and Representatives to which the state is entitled in both houses of Congress, and the District of Columbia may appoint a number of electors equal to the total number of U. S. Senators and Representatives to which it would be entitled if it were a state, but never more than number of electors of the state with the lowest population. Senate membership is state-based, and House membership is population-based, so the power of the electoral college is designed to be a combination of the two. Each state is entitled to the same representation in the Senate (two Senators per state), but the 435 House seats are reapportioned among the states a year after each census to account for uneven population growth and population shifts between states over the previous ten years. Since each state has a minimum of one House Representative, the minimum number of electors per state is three. The seven states that had populations of less than a million in 2010, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming, coincidentally are the only states that currently have the minimum of three electoral votes, as does D.C. California, the state with the greatest population, controls 55 electoral votes. The median number of electors per state is 8.

Answer 3

The number of presidential electors in the electoral college that a State is allocated is equal to the number of its Representatives plus the number of its Senators.