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Texas casts its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the presidential election on Election Day in Texas gets all of Texas' electoral votes.
Texas has 34 of the 538 Electoral Votes in the Electoral College.
Texas cast its 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Popular votes
Texas has 38 votes in 2012,2016 and 2020.
The popular vote in the state of Texas was 57.2%, winning it's 38 electoral votes.
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 36 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas. Therefore, Texas has 38 electoral votes in 2016.
Texas had 34 electoral votes in the 2004 election, which went to George W. Bush, Republican.
1988: George H. W. Bush wins 29 electoral votes from Texas.1992: George H. W. Bush wins 32 electoral votes from Texas.2000: George W. Bush wins 32 electoral votes from Texas.2004: George W. Bush wins 34 electoral votes from Texas.
No, Texas has the second most electoral votes, second to California.
Bell got 39 electoral votes and 590,901 popular votes. Douglas got 12 electoral votes and 1,004,823 popular votes.
Texas had 8,077,073 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election, which translated into 34 electoral votes.