How many electoral votes does each state have?

IN race for the White HouseTo win the 2024 presidential election, a candidate will have to win 270 of the 538 electoral votes.

Electoral votes are distributed among states based on the census. Each state has the same number of electors as the members of its congressional delegation: one for each member of the House of Representatives, plus two senators.

Here is a list of electoral votes by state.

Selective votes 2024

Alabama – 9
Alaska – 3
Arizona – 11
Arkansas – 6
California – 54
Colorado – 10
Connecticut – 7
Delaware – 3
Florida – 30
Georgia – 16
Hawaii – 4
Idaho – 4
Illinois – 19
Indiana – 11
Iowa – 6
Kansas – 6
Kentucky – 8
Louisiana – 8
Maine – 4
Maryland – 10
Massachusetts – 11
Michigan – 15
Minnesota – 10
Mississippi – 6
Missouri – 10
Montana – 4
Nebraska – 5
Nevada – 6
New Hampshire – 4
New Jersey – 14
New Mexico – 5
New York – 28
North Carolina – 16
North Dakota – 3
Ohio – 17
Oklahoma – 7
Oregon – 8
Pennsylvania – 19
Rhode Island – 4
South Carolina – 9
South Dakota – 3
Tennessee – 11
Texas – 40
Utah – 6
Vermont – 3
Virginia – 13
Washington – 12
Washington, DC – 3
West Virginia – 4
Wisconsin – 10
Wyoming – 3

Each state gets at least three, and states with larger populations get more. The District of Columbia gets three, but has no voting members in Congress.

Following the 2020 US Census, Congress redistricted. Six states gained at least one additional seat, while seven states lost one seat.

California has the most electoral votes with 54, and Texas comes in second with 40 electoral votes.

There are six states with only three electoral votes each: Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming, as well as Washington, DC.

Texas received two electoral votes in 2024. There were only 38 in the 2020 election.

According to the National Archives, “All states except Maine and Nebraska have winner-take-all policies, in which the state looks only at the overall winner of the statewide popular vote. However, Maine and Nebraska appoint separate electors. based on the winner of the popular vote in each congressional district, and then two “at-large” electors based on the winner of the overall popular vote statewide.”

Split votes are rare, but they have happened in Nebraska in 2008 and 2020 and in Maine in 2016 and 2020.

Click on the states in this interactive map above to create your own 2024 election forecast. Create a specific matchup by clicking on the party and/or names next to the electoral vote counter.