Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its Senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College.
Each State (which includes the District of Columbia for the Electoral College) decides how to appoint its electors; however, they must do so according to law enacted before Election Day. Currently all States use the popular vote results from the November general election to decide which political party chooses the individuals who are appointed.
All States, except for Maine and Nebraska, have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote within each Congressional district and then 2 "at-large" electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.
While it is rare for Maine or Nebraska to have a split vote, each has done so twice: Nebraska in 2008, Maine in 2016, and both Maine and Nebraska in 2020.
The allocations below are based on the 2020 Census. They are effective for the 2024 and 2028 presidential elections.
Total Electoral Votes: 538; Majority Needed to Elect: 270
Alabama - 9 votes
Kentucky - 8 votes
North Dakota - 3 votes
Alaska - 3 votes
Louisiana - 8 votes
Arizona - 11 votes
Oklahoma - 7 votes
Arkansas - 6 votes
Maryland - 10 votes
Oregon - 8 votes
California - 54 votes
Massachusetts - 11 votes
Pennsylvania - 19 votes
Colorado - 10 votes
Michigan - 15 votes
Rhode Island - 4 votes
Connecticut - 7 votes
Minnesota - 10 votes
South Carolina - 9 votes
Delaware - 3 votes
Mississippi - 6 votes
South Dakota - 3 votes
District of Columbia - 3 votes
Missouri - 10 votes
Tennessee - 11 votes
Florida - 30 votes
Montana - 4 votes
Texas - 40 votes
Georgia - 16 votes
Nebraska - 5 votes
Hawaii - 4 votes
Nevada - 6 votes
Vermont - 3 votes
New Hampshire - 4 votes
Virginia - 13 votes
Illinois - 19 votes
New Jersey - 14 votes
Washington - 12 votes
Indiana - 11 votes
New Mexico - 5 votes
West Virginia - 4 votes
New York - 28 votes
Wisconsin - 10 votes
Kansas - 6 votes
North Carolina - 16 votes
Wyoming - 3 votes
The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, coordinates certain functions of the Electoral College between the States and Congress. It has no role in appointing electors and has no contact with them.
For information on the Electoral College process in your State, contact the Secretary of State of your State. To find your Secretary of State, go to the website for the National Association of Secretaries of State: www.nass.org
Each state and the District of Columbia will appoint its electors after it certifies the general election results. Each will then prepare a Certificate of Ascertainment which will contain the names of the electors and the number of votes they received. Certificates of Ascertainment also may contain the party affiliation for electors. OFR posts the Certificates of Ascertainment after receiving them from the States. You’ll find the posted Certificates on our website.
However, OFR does not receive the names of the electors until receiving the Certificates of Ascertainment. To find out the names earlier, you would need to contact each State and the District of Columbia individually to request the contact information for their electors. The National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) can help you find contact information for the States.
Some States release the slates of all potential electors before the general election and some States include the names of the potential electors on the general election ballot. How each State approaches these issues is up to the State.
Whether or when a State releases contact or other information about its electors is also up to the State.
Generally, each State’s electors vote at their respective State capitols. Each State determines whether or not the voting is open to the public. To find out if your State’s meeting of electors is open to the public and if so, what the process is to view the vote, contact your Governor’s Office or your Secretary of State.