If Barack Obama won the plurality of votes in California during the 2012 election, and California had 53 representatives in the House of Representatives, how many electoral votes from California did Obama win?

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California has 55 electoral votes. In the United States, the winner of the popular vote in a state receives all of that state's electoral votes. Therefore, Obama would have won all 55 electoral votes from California because he won the plurality of votes in that state. The number of representatives in the House of Representatives is irrelevant to the number of electoral votes a state has.

If Barack Obama Won the Plurality of Votes in California