It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College . This map shows how many votes each state gets in 2024.

In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral votes to the 50 ...

The reason that Nebraska splits its electoral votes this way is actually relatively simple. The state's legislature believed that this would be a better representation of the will of their voters ...

California has the most Electoral College votes of any state with 54, followed by Texas’ 40 and Florida’s 30. New York has 28 Electoral College votes, while Illinois and Pennsylvania each ...

LINCOLN — If every state adopted Maine and Nebraska’s unique system of awarding their Electoral College votes for president — which provide one electoral vote to the winner in each ...

The race for the White House all comes down to 270 Electoral College votes. Here's a guide to how many votes each state gets this year to decide the presidency.

So, combine that with the state's two senators, and it has 54 electoral votes. Texas has the second-most with 40 electoral votes. After that, Florida has 30 votes, and New York has 28.

Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country.

The most recent U.S. census was conducted in 2020, and more than a dozen states lost or gained their congressional districts and – along with them – electoral votes. (Reminder: Each state’s ...

The Electoral College – explained 02:56. At state capitols across the U.S. Tuesday, the presidential electors will be gathering to cast their electoral votes, formalizing President-elect Donald ...

Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country.

WASHINGTON – Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. Both states split their electoral votes between former ...