Electoral College Quiz

Electoral College Quiz is a typing drill on one number per state, its electoral vote total. Fifteen states per round, no multiple choice to fall back on, and a run takes roughly two minutes.

How to play

Press Start and a state name appears. Type its electoral vote count as a figure and press Enter, or use the Submit button. A correct number scores a point. A wrong number costs one of three lives and the right answer is shown before the next state. Skip also costs a life, so use it only when you would otherwise burn time. Fifteen states are drawn at random from all 50, there is no clock, and the final score converts to stars at 90, 60 and 30 percent. Best score and streak stay in your browser.

Learn the clusters, not the states

Because the answer is a number, the fast route is memorising which states share a total. Every state gets two senators plus at least one representative, which is why 3 is the floor and six states sit on it. If a small state is not on the 3 list, 4 is the next best guess and covers seven more.

• Only four totals are worth learning outright: California 54, Texas 40, Florida 30, New York 28.
• Two ties catch people at the top of the board. Illinois and Pennsylvania are both 19, Georgia and North Carolina are both 16.
• The 10 group and the 11 group are next door to each other and are the most common near miss. Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin are 10. Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts and Tennessee are 11.
• Maine and Nebraska split their votes by congressional district, but the quiz wants the state total, so answer 4 and 5.
• The deck covers the 50 states only. Washington DC has three votes under the 23rd Amendment and is not in the quiz, which is why these 50 answers add up to 535 rather than the 538 that decide an election. A majority of 270 wins.

Electoral votes by state

These totals come from the reapportionment that followed the 2020 census and govern the 2024 and 2028 elections. Texas gained two seats in that round, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon gained one each, and California lost a seat for the first time since it joined the Union. A state's total is always its House delegation plus its two senators, so Wyoming's 3 means a single representative.

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