Based on the 2010 Census, the states with the largest number of electoral votes are California 55, Texas 38, New York 29, Florida 29, Illinois 20, and Pennsylvania 20. In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton won New York and Illinois. Donald Trump won Pennsylvania.
The public votes to select who the Electoral delegates will vote for. In most states, state law dictates that the Electoral delegates must vote for the candidate who won their state's election. At least one state awards Electoral votes to the candidate who wins each Congressional district.
John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes, Richard Nixon received 219 electoral votes, and Harry Byrd received 15 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Kennedy 34,226,731 and Nixon 34,108,157.
Maryland cast its 10 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Hillary Clinton 1,677,928 and Donald Trump 943,169.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. Douglas received votes from Missouri and New Jersey. Douglas received Missouri's 9 electoral votes. New Jersey electors split their vote giving 4 to Lincoln and 3 to Douglas.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. Douglas received votes from Missouri and New Jersey. Douglas received Missouri's 9 electoral votes. New Jersey electors split their vote giving 4 to Lincoln and 3 to Douglas.
California, with 55 electoral votes.
John McCain won 3 electoral votes by getting 168,601 votes to Barack Obama's 141,278 votes.
Barack Obama won electoral votes in 2008
Obama won. He got 364 votes. McCain won like 134.
Lyndon Johnson won 486 in 1964 which was the highest total ever for a Democrat. (Republican , Ronald Reagan, got 525 in 1984, despite the fact that 3 "automatic" votes from DC were added to the Democratic total.)
He won almost all of the North's electoral votes.
Texas had the most votes of the states won by John McCain, with 34 electoral votes, and 4,479,328 votes for John McCain to Barack Obama's 3,528,633 votes.
how many current electoral votes has santorum won
He won almost all of the North's electoral votes.
He won almost all of the North's electoral votes.
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The most electoral votes that William Jennings Bryan won from one state in one election was 18 votes from Texas in 1908.