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California voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. California has 54 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most in the country. [3] The most populous state in the union, California is considered a strong blue state, having voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992.
This list of 2024 United States presidential electors contains members of the Electoral College, known as "electors", who cast ballots to elect the president of the United States and vice president of the United States in the 2024 presidential election. There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. [1]
In the earliest presidential elections, state legislative choice was the most common method of choosing electors. A majority of the state legislatures selected presidential electors in both 1792 (9 of 15) and 1800 (10 of 16), and half of them did so in 1812. [208] Even in the 1824 election, a quarter of state legislatures (6 of 24) chose electors.
Instead of a national race it's a state-by-state race. Winning one of the 50 states means that candidate collects all the so-called electoral college votes. There are 538 electoral college votes ...
Here, each state’s delegation would get one vote. For example, California’s 52 House of Representatives members would have one vote the same as Wyoming’s single member, according to USA.gov .
In 2016, seven electors went rogue—the most since 1972, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Thirty-five states and D.C. have laws against faithless electors.
California has 54 votes in the Electoral College following the results of the 2020 census in which the state lost one vote due to redistricting. California is considered a strong blue state , voting for each Democratic Party candidate since 1992 ; in 2020 , Joe Biden carried the state with 63.5% of the vote, the highest vote share of any ...
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