Each state's number of electoral votes in U.S. presidential elections is determined by its representation in Congress. Here’s how it works.

The number of electoral votes each state has depends on U.S. Census data and the number of members in the House of Representatives. How many electors are in the Electoral College? The Electoral ...

The selection of electors. Each state, ... Electoral votes are calculated by adding the number of U.S. House of Representatives seats that a state has to the number of Senate seats. Each state has ...

This is the second installment in a three-part series. In the first part of this three-part series, we peeked behind the curtain of the strange and fascinating system of how this nation picks a ...

Each state gets a certain number of electoral votes based on its population. ... A state’s number of electors is identical to the total number of its senators and representatives in Congress.

The number of electors each state has is equal to its total number of Congressional representatives. Currently, there are 538 electors, with a majority of 270 votes needed to win the presidency.

Each state receives the same number of votes in the Electoral College as the number of representatives it has in Congress. Arizona has nine members of the House of Representatives and two U.S ...

The U.S. Constitution specifies that each state gets same number of electors as its total number of representatives and senators in Congress, and the founders left it up to the states to determine ...

Each state starts with two electoral votes, based on the two U.S. senators in each state. States receive additional electors based on the number of representatives they have in the House of ...

Edward Foley, director of the election law program at the Ohio State University, talked about the electoral college and state law under Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.