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If you consider Obama's home state Hawaii, Hawaii has 3 electoral votes.If you count Obama's home state Illinois, Illinois has 20 electoral votes.

Barack Obama is now living in Washington D.C., which has 3 electoral votes.

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Barack Obama is from Illinois. The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its and number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Therefore, Illinois has 20 electoral votes.

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Since the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is from Illinois, his state has 21 electoral votes.

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