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What states share electoral votes?
No states share electoral votes. Each state has at least 3 or more.
What makes up a states 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).
Does primary winner get all electoral votes?
The primary elections are used to select the candidate for each party. There are no electoral votes associated with a primary election. Electoral votes are won by the winner in the General Election on Election Day.
Why does the number of electoral votes in Florida differ from the number of representatives?
Every states gets two votes for its two senators, added to the votes for its representatives. Florida has 27 representatives and two senators and so gets 29 electoral votes.
Name one state where the winner of the election is not awarded all the electoral college votes of that state?
Maine and Nebraska are the only states that do not award all of their electoral votes under multiple-winner plurality. In both states, the state at large has two electoral votes elected unti multiple-winner plurality. Each congressional district in these states also has a single electoral vote allocated using single-winner plurality, making it possible for the state to give electoral votes to multiple candidates.
They have at least two electoral votes where are they?
Every state has at least 3 electoral votes. Based on the 2010 Census, Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming are the states that have 3 electoral votes. The other states have more than 3 electoral votes.
Does all of Oregon's electoral votes go to the winner in the state?
Yes, the only two states that currently are not winner-takes-all states are Maine and Nebraska.
Which two states do not adhere to winner take all in elections?
Nebraska and Maine do not simply award all their votes to the state-wide winner. They award one vote to the winner in each separate congressional district and two votes to the state-wide winner.
When a president canididate wins a states electoral votes do they win all of them or just part of them?
In U.S. Presidential elections, D.C. and every state except Nebraska and Maine gives 100% of their electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most popular votes within their state. In Nebraska and Maine, two electoral votes go to the candidate who gets the most popular votes within each state, and one electoral vote goes to the candidate who gets the most popular votes in each of the states' congressional districts.
What methods do Nebraska and Maine use in awarding electoral votes?
Those two States are not Winner Take All Statesand their Electoral Votes may be split between voting districts as was the case for Nebraska in the 2008 Presidential Election.
Which are the two states that are exception to the unit rule for awarding electoral votes?
Maine and nebraska
What is the number of democrat and republican electoral votes for each state?
Electoral votes are not divided between democrats and republicans. They are allocated among the 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 House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. Each state then votes that states electoral votes for the U.S. presidential candidate who won the election in that state.
