Electoral College History Pennsylvania
While still an important prize with 20 electoral votes pennsylvania like many industrial northern states has seen population migrate away in recent decades.
Electoral college history pennsylvania. Pennsylvania s electoral college pennsylvania had 15 electoral votes when the constitution was first ratified. Pennsylvania s electors cast the state s electoral college votes for joe biden by julia terruso and jonathan lai updated. Some delegates including james wilson and james madison preferred popular election of the executive.
Often these represent different organizations political parties or entities with each organization political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. December 14 2020 4 41 pm pennsylvania secretary of state kathy boockvar presiding over the meeting of the electoral college in pennsylvania on dec. Democrat joe biden who was born in scranton won the popular vote.
Peaking at 38 electoral votes in the 1910s and 1920s second only to new york the state has lost 45 percent of its electoral clout in 80 years. An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices. It takes 270 electoral college votes to win the presidency.
Pennsylvania s 20 presidential electors met in the state capital of harrisburg to formally cast their votes in the 2020 election. 3 election with 306 electoral college votes while president donald trump finished with 232. However once the electoral college had been decided on several delegates mason butler morris wilson and madison openly recognized its ability to protect the election process from cabal corruption intrigue and faction.
Democrat joe biden won the nov. Pennsylvania has certified its election results but 64 state republicans have signed a letter friday urging congress to not commit the state s 20 electoral votes for democrat joe biden.