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The electoral college consists of 538 electors, 435 for the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 100 for the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, and 3 that D.C. is allowed to appoint according to the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Each of the 50 states appoints a number of electors equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives to which it is entitled in the U.S. Congress, and D.C. appoints the number of electors that it would if it were a state, but never more than the number of electors of the least populous state.

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