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 had 8,077,073 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election, which translated into 34 electoral votes.
Wisconsin had 10 electoral votes in the 2008 Presidential election. They will also have 10 electoral votes in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections
counting the electoral votes that were cast in the presidential election
Bob Dole won the state of Texas, receiving its 32 electoral votes, in the 1996 presidential election. Bill Clinton won the election, with 49.2 percent of the vote.
538 votes
Pennsylvania had 21 electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election. These went to Barack Obama (D).
Virginia has 13 electoral votes.
There were 538 electoral votes in the 2012 US presidential election.
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 had 38 electoral votes in the 2012 election.
Utah has one vote per resident age 18 or over. In the past 2008 presidential election, Utah cast 952,370 votes for president, translating into 5 electoral votes. Utah has 6 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election.
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.