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The United States has an Electoral College which is provided with the responsibility of appointing the President of the United States. In this system each state is provided with a number of electors who vote for the ideal candidate. This is known as the apportionment of electors and each state has its own set of electors. These electors in turn then vote for the Presidential elections. Each state is allocated with a number of electors which is equal to their total number of Senators and Representatives at the Congress.
According to the present political scenario, California has the largest apportionment of electors (55), followed by Texas (34) and thereafter comes New York (31). The smallest American states are Vermont, Montana, Delaware, North Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska and South Dakota, each of which has three electors. The apportionment of electors is determined by the United States Census board and this is revised after every ten years.
At present, there are 100 Senators and 435 members in the House of Representatives and the total number of members in both the houses is 535. The District of Columbia has 3 electors and so the total number of electors is 538. Therefore, one should win at least 270 electoral votes in order to become the President of United States.
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