How many elected votes does it take to win the election for president of the US?

Electoral votes

in the Electoral College determine the President of the United

States. Every state and DC are awarded a certain number of

electoral votes with which to elect the President. Each state has

electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the

state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the

state has in the House of Representatives. The states choose as

many electors as it has electoral votes and these electors elect

the president. The electors are elected by popular vote in each

state and each candidate for elector swears in advance whom he will

vote for. 270 electoral votes in the Electoral College are needed

to win the U.S. presidency. Since every state has two senators and

at least one representative to the House, every state has at least

3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes.

Therefore, the total number of electoral votes in the Electoral

College is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for

DC). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of

538.