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Why do states with a lot of land have few electoral votes?
Electoral votes are based on the state's population. This is why states with a lot of land can have fewer electoral votes than smaller states.
What Electoral votes are given to states based on?
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).
What can happen to a state's electoral votes after each census?
The number of electoral votes is adjusted after each census to reflect changes in state populations. States that have gained more population that the average can be given more votes and and states that have lost population or failed to gain as much as most states can lose votes. The number of electoral votes is tied to the number of congressional districts .
How many states can a candidate win and still lose the election?
When referring to the Electoral College and Presidential elections, a candidate can win by taking: California (55 electoral votes) Texas (28 electoral votes) Florida (29 electoral votes) New York (29 electoral votes) Illinois (20 electoral votes) Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) Ohio (18 electoral votes) Georgia (16 electoral votes) Michigan (16 electoral votes) New Jersey (15 electoral votes) Virginia (14 electoral votes) - a total of 11 states for 270 electoral votes which means a candidate can lose the other 39 states and District of Columbia and still win the election.
What are the 4 largest states in terms of electoral votes?
Based on the 2010 Census, the states with the largest number of electoral votes are California 55, Texas 38, New York 29, and Florida 29.
Why does illinois have so many electoral votes?
Electoral votes are distributed based on population.
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.
What was an argument of states that wanted to secede?
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
Where there any states where the votes split?
Electoral votes split based on vote-ratio in Maine and Nebraska. The other 48 states have an all-or-nothing policy.
What causes a state to vary with the number of electoral votes it may have?
Assuming you're asking about U.S. states. Number of electoral votes is based on the state's population, as determined by the U.S. Census.
How many states have 29 or more electoral votes?
Based on the 2010 Census the electoral votes by state are: California - 55, Florida - 29, New York - 29, Texas - 38.
Why does Ohio have less electoral votes than in 2008?
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 .
