Below is a list of electoral college votes of states the population of which, taken together, is roughly equal to that of California. The figures in the middle column are the electoral college votes granted each state, and their total, compared to the electoral college votes granted California. The rightmost column represents the percentage of the total population of the United States living in each state, and the sum of those percentages, compared to the percentage of the population of the United States living in California.
Each group, the one with fourteen states in it, and the group with one, comprises roughly one eighth of the population of the United States. There are 538 electors in the electoral college, and one-eighth of 538 is not that much more than 67, which, if electors were apportioned democratically, would be the number shared out among each group. Sixty-seven. Not 81 for the one group and 55 for the other.
The groups are further distinguished by the fact that one voted for Donald Trump for president, and the other for Hillary Clinton.
| State | EC Votes | % of U.S. Population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 10 | 1.89 | |
| Michigan | 16 | 3.11 | |
| Oklahoma | 7 | 1.22 | |
| Mississippi | 6 | 0.93 | |
| Arkansas | 6 | 0.93 | |
| Utah | 6 | 0.93 | |
| Kansas | 6 | 0.91 | |
| W. Virginia | 5 | 0.57 | |
| Idaho | 4 | 0.51 | |
| Montana | 3 | 0.32 | |
| N. Dakota | 3 | 0.27 | |
| S. Dakota | 3 | 0.24 | |
| Alaska | 3 | 0.23 | |
| Wyoming | 3 | 0.18 | |
| TOTAL | 81 | 12.24 | |
| California | 55 | 12.18 |
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