Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.
Massachusetts cast its 12 electoral votes for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
South Dakota had 3 electoral votes for the 2008 election.
West Virginia had 5 electoral votes in the 2008 election; they were cast for John McCain (R).
Pennsylvania had 21 electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election. These went to Barack Obama (D).
California cast a total of 13,561,900 votes in the 2008 presidential election. This translated into 55 electoral votes.
FL had 27 votes in 2008.
In the 2008 election, Barrack Obama received 365 electoral votes. In the 2012 election, he received 332 electoral votes.
Utah has one vote per resident age 18 or over. In the past 2008 presidential election, Utah cast 952,370 votes for president, translating into 5 electoral votes. Utah has 6 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election.
Texas with 34 votes was the largest state won by the Republicans in 2008. Georgia with 15 votes was second.
About 5.5 million votes were cast in the 2008 Presidential election.
currently 3Montana has three votes for John McCain in the 2008 election.
Texas had 8,077,073 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election, which translated into 34 electoral votes.