Hundreds of thousands of votes are being counted within the 2024 presidential election. However it’s not the favored vote that decides the presidency — it is the end result of the Electoral School.
There are 538 votes within the Electoral School and it takes 270 — a majority — to win the presidency.
The race between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will doubtless come right down to a handful of battleground states the place voters are intently divided. Of these, Pennsylvania has essentially the most electoral votes at stake, with 19, adopted by North Carolina and Georgia with 16 every. Michigan has 15, Arizona has 11, Wisconsin has 10, and Nevada has 6.
It is a winner-take-all system in most states, which means the candidate who comes out forward will get all the state’s Electoral School votes. Maine and Nebraska are the one two states that enable their electoral votes to be break up.
What number of Electoral School votes does every state have?
The variety of Electoral School votes every state will get is the same as its whole variety of U.S. senators and representatives in Congress. This implies every state will get not less than three, whereas states with bigger populations get extra. The District of Columbia additionally will get three, though it has no voting members in Congress.
States could achieve or lose electoral votes because the inhabitants shifts. Within the congressional redistricting that adopted the 2020 U.S. Census, six states picked up not less than one further Home seat — and thus an additional electoral vote — whereas seven states misplaced one.
Which state has essentially the most electoral votes?
California, essentially the most populous state within the nation, has 54 electoral votes. With a inhabitants of over 39.5 million individuals, in accordance with the 2020 Census, meaning California has one elector for each 732,189 residents.
Texas is subsequent, with 40 electoral votes, adopted by Florida with 30 and New York with 28.
Which state has the least electoral votes?
Six states with the smallest populations have three electoral votes every: Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. Washington, D.C., additionally will get three. In Wyoming, whose inhabitants of about 576,850 is the nation’s smallest, that works out to 1 elector for each 182,283 residents.
Which state has gained essentially the most electoral votes?
Texas gained two electoral votes in 2024, giving it a complete of 40 on this 12 months’s presidential race, up from 38 within the 2020 election.
5 different states — Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon — gained one electoral vote every.
Which state has misplaced essentially the most electoral votes?
Seven states misplaced an electoral vote in 2024: California, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The map beneath exhibits all of the states that gained or misplaced Electoral School votes for the 2024 election.
