Question

What was the minimum number of Electoral College votes required to win the 2000 U.S. presidential election?

Answer 1

The Twelfth Amendment requires the House of Representatives to go into session immediately to vote for a president if no candidate for president receives a majority of the electoral votes (since 1964, 270 of the 538 electoral votes)

Answer 2

There are 538 electoral votes in all. In 2008, CNN projected Barack Obama as the winner of the presidential election after the then-senator skyrocketed from 220 electoral votes to 297 votes after results from some Western states, including California, came in.