Electoral Votes

[Online Professor]

	1	California	39,865,590	55
	2	Texas	29,206,997	39
	3	Florida	21,299,325	29
	4	New York	19,542,209	29
	5	Pennsylvania	12,807,060	20
	6	Illinois	12,741,080	20
	7	Ohio	11,689,442	18
	8	Georgia	10,519,475	16
	9	North Carolina	10,383,620	16
	10	Michigan	9,995,915	16
	11	New Jersey	8,908,520	14

 

• There were 128,838,834  people who voted in the 2016  Presidential election
• If  50% plus 1 of the 101,782,267 people in the 11 states with the largest population the candidate would receive 270 electoral votes.
• If 100% of the 27,056,657 people in the remaining 39 states all voted for a different candidate, that candidate would receive 268 electoral votes.
• The losing candidate could receive 50,891,133 popular votes in the 11 largest states and 27,056,657 popular votes in the 39 smaller states. The losing candidate could win 39 of the 50 states while receiving 65% of the 128,838,834 popular votes.