electoral_votes.py

"""Dict that stores the number of electoral votes of each State"""
"""Note: 'State' in this context refers to any state or region that holds electoral votes.
This includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the congressional districts in Maine and Nebraska."""

electoral_votes = {'Alabama': 9,
                   'Alaska': 3,
                   'Arizona': 11,
                   'Arkansas': 6,
                   'California': 55,
                   'Colorado': 9,
                   'Connecticut': 7,
                   'Delaware': 3,
                   'District of Columbia': 3,
                   'Florida': 29,
                   'Georgia': 16,
                   'Hawaii': 4,
                   'Idaho': 4,
                   'Illinois': 20,
                   'Indiana': 11,
                   'Iowa': 6,
                   'Kansas': 6,
                   'Kentucky': 8,
                   'Louisiana': 8,
                   'Maine': 4,
                   'Maryland': 10,
                   'Massachusetts': 11,
                   'Michigan': 16,
                   'Minnesota': 10,
                   'Mississippi': 6,
                   'Missouri': 10,
                   'Montana': 3,
                   'Nebraska': 5,
                   'Nevada': 6,
                   'New Hampshire': 4,
                   'New Jersey': 14,
                   'New Mexico': 5,
                   'New York': 29,
                   'North Carolina': 15,
                   'North Dakota': 3,
                   'Ohio': 18,
                   'Oklahoma': 7,
                   'Oregon': 7,
                   'Pennsylvania': 20,
                   'Rhode Island': 4,
                   'South Carolina': 9,
                   'South Dakota': 3,
                   'Tennessee': 11,
                   'Texas': 38,
                   'Utah': 6,
                   'Vermont': 3,
                   'Virginia': 13,
                   'Washington': 12,
                   'West Virginia': 5,
                   'Wisconsin': 10,
                   'Wyoming': 3}

total_electoral_votes = sum(electoral_votes.values())

list_of_battleground_state_names = ['Florida',
                                    'Pennsylvania',
                                    'Wisconsin',
                                    'North Carolina',
                                    'Michigan',
                                    'Ohio',
                                    'Minnesota',
                                    'Iowa',
                                    'Arizona',
                                    'Nevada',
                                    'Texas',
                                    'Georgia',
                                    'Virginia',
                                    'New Hampshire',
                                    'Maine',
                                    'Colorado',
                                    'New Mexico']