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How many electoral votes does each state have?

How many electoral votes does each state have?

In the race for the White House, a candidate must win 270 of the 538 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Electoral votes are distributed among states based on the census. Each state has the same number of electors as members of its congressional delegation: one for each member of the House of Representatives, plus two senators.

Here is a list of electoral votes by state.

Electoral votes 2024

  • Alabama-9
  • Alaska – 3
  • Arizona – 11
  • Arkansas-6
  • California – 54
  • Colorado-10
  • Connecticut – 7
  • Delaware – 3
  • Florida – 30
  • Georgia – 16
  • Hawaii – 4
  • Idaho-4
  • Illinois-19
  • Indiana – 11
  • Iowa-6
  • Kansas-6
  • Kentucky-8
  • Louisiana – 8
  • Maine – 4
  • Maryland-10
  • Massachusetts-11
  • Michigan-15
  • Minnesota – 10
  • Mississippi – 6
  • Missouri-10
  • Montana – 4
  • Nebraska-5
  • Nevada – 6
  • New Hampshire – 4
  • New Jersey – 14
  • New Mexico – 5
  • New York – 28
  • North Carolina – 16
  • North Dakota – 3
  • Ohio-17
  • Oklahoma-7
  • Oregon-8
  • Pennsylvania – 19
  • Rhode Island – 4
  • South Carolina – 9
  • South Dakota – 3
  • Tennessee – 11
  • Texas-40
  • Utah-6
  • Vermont – 3
  • Virginia – 13
  • Washington – 12
  • Washington DC – 3
  • West Virginia – 4
  • Wisconsin-10
  • Wyoming-3

Each state gets at least three, while states with larger populations get more. The District of Columbia gets three but has no voting members in Congress.

Following the 2020 U.S. Census, congressional redistricting occurred. Six states gained at least one additional seat, while seven states lost one seat.

California has the most electoral votes with 54, while Texas has the second most with 40 electoral votes.

There are six states with only three electoral votes each: Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming, as well as Washington, DC

Texas won two electoral votes in 2024. In the 2020 election there were only 38.

According to the National Archives, “All states except Maine and Nebraska follow a winner-takes-all policy, with the state paying attention only to the overall winner of the statewide popular vote. However, Maine and Nebraska appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote in each congressional district and then two “at-large electors” based on the winner of the overall statewide popular vote.”

It is rare for a split vote to occur, but it occurred in Nebraska in 2008 and 2020 and in Maine in 2016 and 2020.

Click states at the top of this interactive map to create your own 2024 election forecast. Create a specific match by clicking on the party and/or names near the vote counter.

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