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The number of votes that a state has in the electoral college is determined by the state's population. The higher the population, the higher the number of votes.

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When the house of representatives votes for the president how many votes do they get?

Each state gets one vote


How is determined how many electoral college votes each state gets?

The number of electors is based on the number of house members for the state. Getting the office of president is a math problem and with the right combination of states a person reaches the number of 270 votes.


What besty explains how many electoral votes a state gets?

The number of congressman from that state plus the number of senators from that state.


How are states' electoral votes determined?

The number of the state's representatives + its 2 senators


How are the electorals divided per state?

Each state is apportioned a number of representatives based on state population. Population is determined every 10 years with a census. In conjunction with state representatives, each state is given 2 senators to represent them in congress. The number of representatives plus the number of senators equals the number of electorial votes each state is given.


How many votes does Columbia have this year?

it gets 3 electoral votes


How many total possible votes are there in this House contingency election for president?

Each state gets one vote.


What determined how many votes each state received in the house of representatives and the senate?

The Great Compromise by Henry Clay made to satisfy both the small states (who wanted a set number of votes per state as in the Senate) and the large states (who wanted the number of votes to be determined by size, as in the House of Rep.).


What determines the number of electoral college votes that each state gets?

The number of electoral votes that a state has is determined by population. The states like Texas and California get more electoral votes than some of the others because more people live in those states.


How many votes does each state have in the electorial college?

Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes.


Why should people vote if the election is determined by electoral votes?

The electoral votes are (more or less) decided by how many popular votes are cast for the candidates in various districts. So especially if you vote in a "swing state" and in an undecided district it is important to vote.


How does MN determine how many electoral votes each candidate will get?

Like most states, Illinois is a "winner-take-all" state. Whichever ticket (presidential candidate and his/her running mate) receives a simple majority of the popular votes within the state gets all 20 of Illinois' electoral votes.