How many electoral votes does it take to win the presidential election?

270 is the magic number In the early days of the United States, this number periodically increased as the number of states and population grew (e.g. George Washington won his first election in 1789 with a unanimous 69 electoral votes). The number of electoral college members is set by the number of US House Representatives (set at 435 seats since 1911), the number of US Senators (2 per state = 100), plus 3 votes for Washington DC. The total size of the electoral college is thus 538.

To achieve victory in the presidential election, a candidate must win half of the electoral college (269) plus one vote, else the election is decided by the incoming House of Representatives. In this case, each state is allotted one vote, and the House must then choose the president among the top three candidates recipients of electoral votes (Incidentally, if the number of states ever changes, the formula is (435+2s+3)/2+1, where s is the number of states.) to win.

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