The number of electoral votes that a state has is determined by population. The states like Texas and California get more electoral votes than some of the others because more people live in those states.
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.
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).
in the Electoral College, each state has as many electors as it has members in congress. for example, if a state has 17 representatives and 2 senators, it is entitled to 19 electoral votes.
The number of electors is the number of representatives plus the number of senators.
Each state has 2 senators. The number of representatives is determined based on the census.
This is based on the population of the state - the more people that live in the state, the more electoral college votes the state receives.
The number of people living there. The idea is to get it so that each elected official is elected from an area containing an equal number of voters.
The Population.
The electoral college determines it.
In the Election of 2012, the state with the largest number of electoral college votes will be California, with 55 electoral votes.
By the population of the state.
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There are 538 Electors in the Electoral College.
The number of a state's electoral votes is the state's total number of U.S. Senators and Representatives, so every time a state gains or loses House seats, it gains or loses the same number of electoral votes.
There are currently 538. The number of electors for a state in the electoral college is the number of US Representatives for the state (based on state size and population) plus 2, the number of US Senators per state. The number 538 is the total number of representatives in Congress (435) plus the number of Senators (100), plus 3 electoral votes for the District of Columbia.
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 4 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. Therefore, Mississippi has 6 electoral votes.
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.
by state electoral map.
the electoral college works like this the convention delegates settled on a system in which each state legislature would choose a number of electors. The electoral college would select the president and vice president.