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Besides the Congressional representatives each state has two senators and so get two votes in addition to the number of its congressman. Since every state has at least one congressman , it follows that every state gets at least three electoral votes, as does DC.The total is electoral votes is thus 435 for Congress plus 100 for the Senate plus 3 for Dc = 538.

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