The electoral votes for each state are determined by the state's population. The higher the population, the more say, or electoral votes a state gets. The smaller the population, the state gets a smaller say.
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).
Whichever ticket (whichever presidential candidate and his/her running mate) receives a simple majority of the popular votes in Ohio receives all 18 of Ohio's votes.
It is on how the majority vote goes
Ohio has 18 electoral votes
Pennsylvania with 29 electoral votes was the largest state that went to Hayes.He also won Ohio (22 votes) and Illinois(21).
3 in 1804 & 1808 7 in 1812 8 in 1816 & 1820 16 in 1824 & 1828 21 in 1832, 1836 & 1840 23 from 1844 through 1860 21 in 1864 & 1868 22 in 1872, 1876 & 1880 23 from 1884 through 1908 24 from 1912 through 1928 26 in 1932, 1936 & 1940 25 from 1944 through 1960 26 in 1964 & 1968 25 in 1972, 1976 & 1980 23 in 1984 & 1988 21 in 1992, 1996 & 2000 20 in 2004 & 2008 18 in 2012, 2016 & 2020
Ohio
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Gains in electoral votes for 2012+3 : Texas +2: Florida+1: Arizona, California, Georgia, Nevada, Utah=======================================States losing votes-1 : -1: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsylvania -2: new York
The number of the state's representatives + its 2 senators
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 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Therefore, Ohio has 18 electoral votes.
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 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Therefore, Ohio has 18 electoral votes.
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 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Therefore, Ohio has 18 electoral votes.
Pennsylvania with 29 electoral votes was the largest state that went to Hayes.He also won Ohio (22 votes) and Illinois(21).
0. McCain did not win any electoral votes in Ohio in 2008. He lost Ohio's 20 electoral votes to Obama by only receiving 2,674,491 votes to Obama's 2,933,388 votes.
Because they both have so many electoral votes. Ohio has 18 electoral votes. Florida has 29 electoral votes.
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 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Therefore, Ohio had 18 electoral votes in 2014.
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The number of electoral votes for Ohio was reduced based on population changes revealed by the 2010 census. The population of Ohio did not increase as much as the population of the states that gained or keep the same number of electoral votes .
Thomas Jefferson won Ohio in 1804, the first election after Ohio became a state.
The presidential election for 2012 won't occur till November, so we will not know the tally of electoral votes until then. In 2008, President Obama won the state of Ohio, with 51% of the popular vote to 47% for McCain; he also won the state's 20 electoral votes. But we do not know yet whether he will capture the state for a second time.