text: The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorsvotes is required to elect the President. Most states have a "winner-take -all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. So another words whoever gets the most votes wins but the odds are which ever side has the larger amount of people voting republican or democrat is normaly who wins. because if your a republican your most likly to vote democrat.