Electoral Votes per State 2016
| California | 55 |
| Texas | 38 |
| Florida | 29 |
| New York | 29 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 |
| Illinois | 20 |
| Ohio | 18 |
| Georgia | 16 |
| North Carolina | 15 |
| Michigan | 16 |
| New Jersey | 14 |
| Virginia | 13 |
| Washington | 12 |
| Arizona | 11 |
| Massachusetts | 11 |
| Tennessee | 11 |
| Indiana | 11 |
| Missouri | 10 |
| Maryland | 10 |
| Wisconsin | 10 |
| Colorado | 9 |
| Minnesota | 10 |
| South Carolina | 9 |
| Alabama | 9 |
| Louisiana | 8 |
| Kentucky | 8 |
| Oregon | 7 |
| Oklahoma | 7 |
| Connecticut | 7 |
| Utah | 6 |
| Iowa | 6 |
| Nevada | 6 |
| Arkansas | 6 |
| Mississippi | 6 |
| Kansas | 6 |
| New Mexico | 5 |
| Nebraska | 5 |
| Idaho | 4 |
| West Virginia | 5 |
| Hawaii | 4 |
| New Hampshire | 4 |
| Maine | 4 |
| Montana | 3 |
| Rhode Island | 4 |
| Delaware | 3 |
| South Dakota | 3 |
| North Dakota | 3 |
| Alaska | 3 |
| District of Columbia | 3 |
| Vermont | 3 |
| Wyoming | 3 |
The Electoral College System
Since the dawn of our country, the U.S. President has been elected by the electoral college system. It was a compromise between 1 vote per state which would give the same weight to a sparcely populated state as to a heavily populated state and a system based solely on population. As it turned out, about 80% of the electoral vote is determined by the number of representatives a state has (mostly based on population although every state is guaranteed at least 1) and about 20% is determined by allocation because each state gets 2 electoral votes based on the number of U.S. senators per state.
Electoral College Historical Snippets over the last 200 Years
