There are actually 6 states with 3 electoral votes.
-Vermont
-Alaska
-Wyoming
Delaware has 3 electoral votes.
Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.PA has 17 electoral votes
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes.
Delaware has had 3 electoral votes in all but 2 elections, 1812 and 1820, in which they had 4 electoral votes.
There were 538 electoral votes in the 2012 US presidential election.
Popular votes
Utah had 5 electoral votes for their 952,370 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election. These 5 electoral votes were cast for John McCain.Utah will increase to 6 electoral votes in the 2012 election.
According to the US Electoral College Web site, Idaho has four electoral votes, and has had 4 since 1912. It had 3 electoral votes in the 5 elections before, starting with 1892 after Idaho's admission in 1890.
It cast 31 electoral votes for Obama.
Alaska has 3 electoral votes. The number of electoral votes can change over time as the population of the state changes.
The maximum number of electoral votes that a presidential candidate could receive is 538. 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. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for DC).