The District of Columbia was formed from land from Virginia and Maryland.
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Rhode Island is the smallest state in the USA if you are not including the District of Columbia (DC).
The non- state with electoral votes is the District of Columbia (DC)
Amendment 23 of the US Constitution provides for the electoral votes for the District of Columbia. Since this is technically not a state up to this point there were no electoral votes allowed from the District of Columbia for the election of a president and vice president.
The state will have 6 electors. A state has as many electors in the electoral college as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress. (There are also 3 electors from the District of Columbia.)
saw their social and economic interests and concerns as being very different from those of the rest of Virginia