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The number is the same as the total number of U. S. Senate seats and seats in the U. S. House of Representatives to which the state is entitled. Since every state is entitled to two U. S. Senate seats and at least one Representative in the House, the minimum number of votes is three. And since the percentage of total seats each state controls in the House of Representatives is as close as reasonably possible to the percentage of the total population of all 50 states that reside in that state, states with more people have more votes. The most populous U. S. state, California, controls 53 House seats from 2003 to at least 2023, so in each of the presidential elections of 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020, they control 55 of the 538 total electoral votes.

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How does one state accumulate more than one electoral vote?

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How are the electorals divided per state?

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What two things decide the number of electoral votes?

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