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Why are there 538 members in the electoral college How do we get this number?
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How many members make up the Electoral College?
There are 538 Electors in the Electoral College.
How many in electoral college?
the total number is 538.
What group of 538 members decides who became the President of the US?
electoral college
How many electoral voter are there in the US?
There are 538 electoral voters in the Electoral College. The number is equal to the 435 members of the House of Representatives, the 100 Senators and and additional 3 for the District of Columbia.
Number of votes in the electoral collage?
There are 538 votes in the electoral college. The candidate who wins a simple majority of 270 votes wins the election.
How many people in the electoral college?
there is 538 electors
Who were the members of the 2008 electoral college?
The 538 members of the 2008 Electoral College and their votes for President and Vice President are listed, state-by-state, on the National Archives web site at http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2008/certificates-of-vote.html .
How many electoral college votes out of 538 does the state of Mississippi have in the electoral college?
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 4 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. Therefore, Mississippi has 6 electoral votes.
How many total members are in electoral college?
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.
How many members are in the Electoral collage?
538
What is the total electoral college vote?
Overall there are a total of 538 electors and so 538 electoral votes.Each state gets one electoral vote for each member of the House of Representatives and two electoral votes for the number of Senators. The number of members in the House of Representatives was fixed at 435 in 1911 and there are two senators from each state, for a total of 535 votes from all of the states. The District of Columbia get 3 votes to make the grand total 538.It follows that the majority required to elect is 270 votes. (538/2 + 1 = 270)538
How many pepeole are there in the Electoral College?
There are currently 538. The number of electors for a state in the electoral college is the number of US Representatives for the state (based on state size and population) plus 2, the number of US Senators per state. The number 538 is the total number of representatives in Congress (435) plus the number of Senators (100), plus 3 electoral votes for the District of Columbia.
