The United States Senate, the upper house of Congress, is made up of two senators from each state.
The house of congress in which each state has two representatives?
with a two-thirds majority in each chamber
Every states gets two votes for its two senators, added to the votes for its representatives. Florida has 27 representatives and two senators and so gets 29 electoral votes.
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Electoral votes are the votes of Congress. California receives 55 electoral votes (the most of any state) because it has 53 representatives and two senators.
2: The senate and the house of representatives.
In Nebraska and Maine, whoever gets the most popular votes in each congressional district gets one vote. The other two votes per state go to whoever gets the most popular votes in the whole state. In each of the other 48 states and in D.C., whoever gets the most popular votes gets 100% of the electoral votes.
House and Senate BOTH must have a 2/3 majority based on how many vote in each chamber. Not all House or Senate members vote on every issue. So the number of votes needed depends on how many actually vote.
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.
Georgia has 15 electoral votes because of their population. Each state gets two U.S. Senators and the House gets representatives by the number of population districts. Thirteen of their votes are based on population.