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Distribution of Electoral Votes
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Allocation among the States
Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College.
Each State (which includes the District of Columbia for this discussion) decides how to appoint its electors. Currently all States use the popular vote results from the November general election to decide which political party chooses the individuals who are appointed.
Allocation within each State
All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote for each Congressional district and then 2 electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.
Even though Maine and Nebraska don't use a winner-take-all system, it is rare for either State to have a split vote. Each has done so once: Nebraska in 2008 and Maine in 2016.
Current allocations
The allocations below are based on the 2010 Census. They are effective for the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections.
Total Electoral Votes: 538; Majority Needed to Elect: 270
Alabama - 9 votes
Kentucky - 8 votes
North Dakota - 3 votes
Alaska - 3 votes
Louisiana - 8 votes
Ohio - 18 votes
Arizona - 11 votes
Maine - 4 votes
Oklahoma - 7 votes
Arkansas - 6 votes
Maryland - 10 votes
Oregon - 7 votes
California - 55 votes
Massachusetts - 11 votes
Pennsylvania - 20 votes
Colorado - 9 votes
Michigan - 16 votes
Rhode Island - 4 votes
Connecticut - 7 votes
Minnesota - 10 votes
South Carolina - 9 votes
Delaware - 3 votes
Mississippi - 6 votes
South Dakota - 3 votes
District of Columbia - 3 votes
Missouri - 10 votes
Tennessee - 11 votes
Florida - 29 votes
Montana - 3 votes
Texas - 38 votes
Georgia - 16 votes
Nebraska - 5 votes
Utah - 6 votes
Hawaii - 4 votes
Nevada - 6 votes
Vermont - 3 votes
Idaho - 4 votes
New Hampshire - 4 votes
Virginia - 13 votes
Illinois - 20 votes
New Jersey - 14 votes
Washington - 12 votes
Indiana - 11 votes
New Mexico - 5 votes
West Virginia - 5 votes
Iowa - 6 votes
New York - 29 votes
Wisconsin - 10 votes
Kansas - 6 votes
North Carolina - 15 votes
Wyoming - 3 votes
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The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, coordinates certain functions of the Electoral College between the States and Congress. It has no role in appointing electors and has no contact with them.
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