Nevada has 6 electoral votes.Nevada has 6 electoral votes.it had 5 in the 2008 election. it will have 6 in 2012Nevada controls six votes in each of the U. S. Presidential & Vice Presidential elections of 2012 through 2020.
In the Election of 2012, the state with the largest number of electoral college votes will be California, with 55 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 4 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada. Therefore, Nevada has 6 electoral votes.
The electoral college elects the president of the united states. Each state has electoral votes according to their population.
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The electoral vote of every state accurately reflects the popular vote within that state. Therefore, every elector in the Electoral College is expected to cast the electoral vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that elector's state.
The Electoral College favors small states: every state, no matter how small, gets at least 3 electoral votes, so small states have more electoral votes per voter.
California with 55.
Electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College determine the President and Vice President of the United States. 270 electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College are needed to win the U.S. presidency. 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. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for DC). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of 538.
A state's number of Electoral College votes is determined by the total combined number of its U.S. senators and representatives. Each state has two senators, plus at least one member of the House of Representatives. The total number of Electoral College votes is 538, with a majority of 270 needed to win the presidency.