Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia

"Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

The Twenty-third AmendmentTwenty-Third AmendmentThe 1961 amendment giving the District of Columbia electoral votes in presidential elections, capped at the number of the least populous state.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) grants the District of Columbia electorsElectoral CollegeThe 538 state-appointed electors who formally elect the President. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes; all but two states award theirs winner-take-all.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) in the Electoral College, as if it were a state, capped at the count of the least populous state.