The total number of electors in the Electoral College is equal to the number of Representatives and Senators, plus three for the District of Columbia, for a total of 538, distributed among States as equal to the number Representatives and Senators representing each State and the District of Columbia.
270 electoral votes win a Presidential election.
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
It had 27 electoral votes.
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
Massachusetts cast its 12 electoral votes for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
In the 2008 election, Barrack Obama received 365 electoral votes. In the 2012 election, he received 332 electoral votes.
538 votes
Virginia has 13 electoral votes.
There were 538 electoral votes in the 2012 US presidential election.
Andrew Jackson, with 99 electoral votes.
In the 1984 election Ronal Regan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1936 election Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.49%) of the 531 electoral votes. In the 1972 election Richard Nixon received 520 (96.65%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1820 election James Monroe received 231 (99.57%) of the 232 electoral votes. In the 1789 and 1792 elections George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes.
Hilary Clinton did not receive electoral votes from Georgia in the 2016 election. Georgia cast its 16 electoral votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
counting the electoral votes that were cast in the presidential election