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Nov 5, 2019 · 2020 Electoral College Results. Electoral College Certificates and Votes by State. Click on the name of a State to see its Certificate of Ascertainment. Click on the number of electoral votes for each state to see its Certificate of Vote.
- Electoral College Timeline
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District...
- About The Electoral College
The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The...
- Distribution of Electoral Votes
The allocations below are based on the 2020 Census. They are...
- Results
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- History
How did we get the Electoral College? The Founding Fathers...
- Roles and Responsibilities
The Archivist of the United States is required by law to...
- Electoral College Timeline
Each state is represented by a number of electors equal to the size of its congressional delegation. There are 538 electors in total. To win the Electoral College, a candidate must receive a majority—at least 270—electoral votes.
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This infographic provides a list of the electoral college votes per state (including the District of Columbia), from most to least. The data are listed below. California has 54 electoral votes. Texas has 40 electoral votes.
Every four years on the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November, voters head to the polls to elect the president of the United States. The votes of the public determine electors, who formally choose the president through the electoral college. The number of electors a state receives is.
StateNumber Of VotesStateNumber Of VotesAlabama9Montana4Alaska3Nebraska5Arizona11Nevada6Arkansas6New Hampshire4- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Each state gets as many electors as it has members of Congress (House and Senate). Including Washington, D.C.’s three electors, there are currently 538 electors in all. Each state’s political parties choose their own slate of potential electors. Who is chosen to be an elector, how, and when varies by state. Learn more about how electors are chosen.
While the Constitution does not require electors to vote for the candidate chosen by their state's popular vote, some states do. The rare elector who votes for someone else may be fined, disqualified and replaced by a substitute elector, or potentially even prosecuted by their state. Learn more about how the Electoral College works.
Winning the popular vote but losing the election
It is possible to win the Electoral College but lose the popular vote. This happened in 2016, 2000, and three times in the 1800s.
What happens if no candidate wins the majority of electoral votes?
If no candidate receives the majority of electoral votes, the vote goes to the House of Representatives. This has happened twice. The first time was following the 1800 presidential election, when the House chose Thomas Jefferson. And following the 1824 presidential election, the House selected John Quincy Adams as president.
The Electoral College process is in the U.S. Constitution. It would take a constitutional amendment to change the process. For more information, contact your U.S. senator or your U.S. representative.
This was particularly true in 2004, when the state put George W. Bush over the top in a close 2 percent victory over John Kerry. 2016 saw Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton by over 8 points, the largest here there since 1988. Trump won over Joe Biden by a nearly identical amount in 2020.
