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Alaska had 3 electoral votes in 2008. These votes went to John McCain, Republican.
According to a map on this Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College, Alaska has 3 Electoral Votes.
Alaska has had 3 electoral votes since 1960 after becoming a state in 1959. This number has not changed.
Georgia's electoral vote count was 15 in the elections of 2004 & 2008, and it's 16 in the elections of 2012, 2016 & 2020.
270 electoral votes
Three(3) is the smallest number of electoral votes that a state can have. The seven states that have this minimum number are : Alaska Delaware Montana North Dakota South Dakota Vermont Wyoming (The District of Columbia also get 3 votes due to the 23rd amendment to the Constitution. )
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 5 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut. Therefore, Connecticut has 7 electoral votes.
Because they have larger population then States like Alaska and Wyoming and a smaller population then States like New York and California. The higher the population, the more Congress and Senate members and thus the higher number of electoral votes.
Alaska only has 3 electoral votes because it has a smaller population, to make it fair they only need three.