We now know how many electoral votes each state will have in the 2024 and 2028 presidential elections–and the changes should help the Republican Party.
In a virtual news conference on Monday, Ron Jarmin, the U.S. Census Bureau's acting director, announced changes to the amount of U.S. House seats that each state will have based on the 2020 U.S. Census. It will also change the electoral college map because the amount of electoral votes each state has is the amount of Congressional districts it has plus two senators. The lone exception is Washington, D.C. which is not a state and has the minimum number of electoral votes, three.
