Number of Electoral Votes Per Popular Vote

(This does not include numbers for 3rd-Party Candidates)

For each set of 3 columns, column 3 = column 1 divided by column 2 (and then multiply by 10^6) to get a more user-friendly number.

Chronological Table

Number of Electoral Votes Per Popular Vote (Per State Per Presidential Election Year)

Election
Year

1832

# of Electoral Votes

# of Popular Votes

# of electoral votes
Per million popular vote

# of Electoral Votes

# of Popular Votes

# of electoral votes
Per million popular vote

State

 

 

 

Alabama

7

14,291

489.81877

Alaska

|

|

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Arizona

|

|

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Arkansas

|

|

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California

|

|

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Colorado

|

|

|

Connecticut

8

32,833

243.65730

Delaware

3

8,386

357.73909

Florida

|

|

|

Georgia

11

20,750

530.12048

Hawaii

|

|

|

Idaho

|

|

|

Illinois

5

21,481

232.76384

Indiana

9

47,023

191.39570

Iowa

|

|

|

Kansas

|

|

|

Kentucky

15

79,741

188.10900

Louisiana

5

6,337

789.01689

Maine

10

62,153

160.89328

Maryland

10

38,316

260.98758

Massachusetts

14

60,588

231.06886

Michigan

|

|

|

Minnesota

|

|

|

Mississippi

4

5,750

695.65217

Missouri

4

5,192

770.41602

Montana

|

|

|

Nebraska

|

|

|

Nevada

|

|

|

New Hampshire

7

43,793

159.84290

New Jersey

8

47,760

167.50419

New Mexico

|

|

|

New York

42

323,393

129.87294

North Carolina

15

29,799

503.37260

North Dakota

|

|

|

Ohio

21

158,294

132.66454

Oklahoma

|

|

|

Oregon

|

|

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Pennsylvania

30

158,638

189.10980

Rhode Island

4

4,936

810.37277

South Carolina

|

|

South Dakota

|

|

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Tennessee

15

29,425

509.77060

Texas

|

|

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Utah

|

|

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Vermont

7

32,128

217.87849

Virginia

23

45,682

503.48058

Washington

|

|

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Washington, D.C.

|

|

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West Virginia

|

|

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Wisconsin

|

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Wyoming

|

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TOTALS

277

1,276,689

216.9675

Graphs

Graphing the numbers in the above table, we obtain the following graphs for each year:

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