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Every state and DC are awarded a certain number of electoral votes with which to elect the President. The number is the total number of representative the state has in Congress in both houses total. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The states choose as many electors as it has electoral votes and these electors elect the president.

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How are electoral votes calculated?

Electoral votes are calculated based on the number of senators and representatives each state has. Each state has a total number of electoral votes equal to the sum of its senators and representatives in the U.S. Congress. The candidate who wins the popular vote in a state typically receives all of that state's electoral votes. The candidate who reaches at least 270 out of 538 total electoral votes wins the presidential election.


How many votes per state in the presidential election?

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Is the number of electoral votes per state based on pulation?

No it is not


How many electoral votes did Obama have per state?

1000


Electorial votes by State?

The number of electoral votes allotted to each state directly depends on the number of residents. Therefore, states with lower populations will have less electoral votes. Montana and Wyoming each only have 3 electoral votes, but the state of California has 55.


How many electoral votes does Oregon have and why?

Oregon currently (in 2012) has 7 votes in the Electoral College. The number of votes each state has is equal to its total number of Senators (two per state) and Representatives (allocated according to the state's population) in Congress.


Per capita income Calculated by?

The percapita income is the income earned per person by the state or country.It is calculated by dividing the total national income by the population of the state.


How does one state accumulate more than one electoral vote?

The minimum number of electoral votes per state is three.


How are the electoral votes in a astate distributed once the people cast their popular vote?

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.


How many votes does each state have to decide who is President of the US?

Each state has a minimum of three electoral votes, calculated by the combined number of Senators and Representatives that state has in Congress.Every state has two Senators, and is guaranteed at least one member of the House; therefore, the fewest possible electoral votes is three. California, which has two Senators and 53 Congressmen in the House of Representatives, has the greatest number of electoral votes, at 55.For more information, see Related Question, below.


How is the number of elector determined per state?

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 U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).


What two things decide the number of electoral votes?

The number of Senators in the Senate (2 per state) and the number of Representatives in the House (varies by state population, but never less than 1 per state).