The Distribution of Voting Power of Citizens of the Individual States Under the Current Electoral College Calculated Using the Banzhaf Index
STATE POPULATION VOTES VOTING POWER* VOTES/POP** CA 29760021 54 3.344 1.00 NY 17990455 33 2.394 1.01 TX 16986510 32 2.384 1.04 FL 12937926 25 2.108 1.06 PA 11881643 23 2.018 1.07 IL 11430602 22 1.965 1.06 OH 10847115 21 1.923 1.07 MI 9295297 18 1.775 1.07 NC 6628637 14 1.629 1.16 NJ 7730188 15 1.617 1.07 VA 6187358 13 1.564 1.16 GA 6478216 13 1.529 1.11 IN 5544159 12 1.524 1.19 WA 4866692 11 1.490 1.25 TX 4877185 11 1.489 1.24 WI 4891769 11 1.486 1.24 MA 6016425 12 1.463 1.10 MO 5117073 11 1.453 1.18 MN 4375099 10 1.428 1.26 MD 4781468 10 1.366 1.15 OK 3145585 08 1.346 1.40 AL 4040587 09 1.337 1.23 WY 0453588 03 1.327 3.64 CT 3287116 08 1.317 1.34 CO 3294394 08 1.315 1.34 LA 4219973 09 1.308 1.18 MS 2573216 07 1.302 1.50 SC 3486703 08 1.278 1.26 IA 2776755 07 1.253 1.39 AZ 3665228 08 1.247 1.20 KY 3685296 08 1.243 1.20 OR 2842321 07 1.239 1.36 NM 1515069 05 1.211 1.82 AK 0550043 03 1.205 3.01 VT 0562758 03 1.192 2.94 RI 1003464 04 1.190 2.20 ID 1006749 04 1.188 2.19 NE 1578385 05 1.186 1.75 AR 2350725 06 1.167 1.41 DC 0606900 03 1.148 2.72 KS 2477574 06 1.137 1.33 UT 1722850 05 1.135 1.60 HI 1108229 04 1.132 1.99 NH 1109252 04 1.132 1.99 ND 0638800 03 1.118 2.59 WV 1793477 05 1.113 1.54 DE 0666168 03 1.095 2.48 NV 1201833 04 1.087 1.83 ME 1227928 04 1.076 1.80 SD 0696004 03 1.071 2.37 MT 0799065 03 1.000 2.07 * Voting power of voters in each state under the current Electoral College; Normalized (i.e., state with lowest figure set equal to 1.00) ** Electoral votes divided by the population of each state Normalized (i.e., state with lowest figure set equal to 1.00) Which is equal to voting power under a proportional voting system
Voting Distributions Reported by Prof. John F. Banzhaf III, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, (202) 994-7229, john@banzhaf.net
Based in large part upon calculations performed by Mark Livingston, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of North Carolina, livingst@cs.unc.edu Banzhaf Power Index