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Maine and Nebraska allocate their Electoral Votes using the Congressional District Method. Two votes go to the overall state vote outcome and one vote is allocated to each district. WASHINGTON – Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., says he will challenge the tally of Electoral College votes when Congress officially certifies the results of the presidential election on Jan. Infographic: Map of US Electoral College votes by state. California and Texas have the most electoral college votes, with 55 and 38 votes respectively. Florida and New York are tied for 3rd place, with 29 electoral college votes each. There are 7 states, along with DC, that have 3 electoral votes, which is the minimum.
In the current system, electoral college votes are apportioned to each state based on its U.S. Congressional delegation — one vote for each senator in the U.S. Senate plus a vote for each congressional district. In these alternatives, each state receives one vote per senator, and the remaining 436 votes are proportionally calculated1 based on each state’s data.
If electoral votes were apportioned by state population:
So, if a candidate wins a state, say 47.2% versus 44.4% (as Clinton did over Trump in Colorado in 2016), the winner gets 100% of the electoral votes, and the loser gets nothing (in the CO example.
Biden 302, Trump 236
If electoral votes were apportioned by congresswomen:
Biden 366, Trump 172
If electoral votes were apportioned by contaminated Superfund sites:
Biden 332, Trump 203
If electoral votes were apportioned
by Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives locations:
Biden 340, Trump 197
If electoral votes were apportioned by roundabouts:
Biden 295, Trump 243
If electoral votes were apportioned by America the Beautiful quarters:
Biden 279, Trump 259
If electoral votes were apportioned
by birth places of previous presidents:
Biden 324, Trump 214
If electoral votes were apportioned by Miss America Winners:
Biden 291, Trump 246
If electoral votes were apportioned by
Sufjan Stevens Fifty States Project albums:
Biden 488, Trump 50
If electoral votes were apportioned by
Survivor contestant hometowns:
Biden 338, Trump 197
If electoral votes were apportioned by
Nylah Burton’s Twitter thread ranking state flags:
Biden 273, Trump 264
If electoral votes were apportioned by median weight of state birds:
Biden 339, Trump 199
1 Electoral Votes Per State = 2+(State’s Data x C) where C = 436/National Sum of Data, if you must know.
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It Takes 270 to Win
The winner of the presidential election must win the majority of the electoral votes — that is at least 270 out of the 538 available.
Because most states allocate their electoral votes on an “winner-take-all” basis — the exceptions being Maine and Nebraska, which split their electoral votes by congressional district — the candidate who wins enough states to reach 270 electoral votes becomes president.
Winning the national popular vote doesn’t matter, as we saw most recently in the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections where the winner of the popular vote actually lost the election. That’s led to many efforts to reform the Electoral College over the years.
There is actually one way to win the presidency without getting 270 electoral votes. If the election results in a 269 to 269 electoral vote tie, then the House of Representatives convenes to choose the president.
The 2020 Map Begins with Florida
In 2016, Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by roughly three million people but won 304 electoral votes and the presidency. Based on recent polling, his chances of winning the popular vote in 2020 are at least as challenging as they were in 2016.
That suggests his best hope for re-election might be to once again assemble an Electoral College majority without winning the popular vote.
Any review of the various 2020 Electoral College combinations should begin with Florida, a state key to all presidential fortunes since the 2000 presidential election.
If Trump were to win Florida again, Democrats would need to recapture three Midwestern states in the Rust Belt — or find substitutes — to win the presidency. If Democrats win Florida, any one of the three Rust Belt states would secure the presidency, unless Trump can pick off another blue state that Democrats won in 2016.
Rust Belt vs. Sun Belt?
The key to President Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election was that he carried three “Rust Belt” states that many expected Democrats to win: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton was so sure of her victory in these states that she didn’t even campaign in Wisconsin.
Trump won these three states by less than a combined 80,000 votes, or just .06% of the 137 million votes cast. But that was still enough to get Trump to the 270 to win.
It’s obvious by playing with the interactive electoral map that if Democrats can flip all three states back to their column in 2020, then they can win the election (assuming they hold all of the other states Hillary Clinton won in 2016.)
But if Democrats lose all three states again, then they would need another path to the presidency. Some say Democrats could pursue a “Sun Belt” strategy and perhaps win Florida plus North Carolina, Arizona, Texas or Georgia. All of those states went to Trump in 2016, but there are some indications from early polling that at least some might be among the battleground states in play in 2020.
A Changing Electoral Map
In recent modern elections, there have been a dozen or more truly competitive battlegrounds which could result in many various paths to 270 electoral votes.
That’s changed in recent years as polarization has increased, resulting in red and blue strongholds with bigger victory margins. For instance, despite the narrow popular vote margin in 2016, more than two dozen states were decided by margins of 15 percentage points or more. In 1988, when the popular vote margin was seven percentage points, there were just 17 states which were won by such big margins.
One way of looking at how the electoral map has changed in recent years is to evaluate which states are most likely to provide the electoral votes needed to secure 270.
During the 2008 and 2012 elections won by Barack Obama, Virginia and Colorado were the tipping point states. But because of Democratic gains among college-educated voters in these states, both have moved sharply toward the Democrats in recent years.
In contrast, even though Ohio was the most important battleground in the 2004 election, underlying trends have moved it towards the Republicans in recent elections.
In 2020, many political analysts think that Wisconsin, where Democrats will hold their national convention in 2020, could prove to be the tipping point state in a close election.
The 2018 Midterms Were a Warning for Trump
For President Trump, the best path for re-election is the exact same one that handed him the presidency in 2016.
But Trump got a major warning sign during the 2018 midterm elections when the three all-important Rust Belt states delivered big victories to Democrats.
Democrats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan swept the races for Senate and governor, and picked up valuable House seats, defeating Trump-backed Republicans at all levels.
Whether this was a fleeting backlash or a preview of the 2020 electoral map remains to be seen, but the outcome in those key states will be important to watch as the campaign progresses.
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