Section 17-19-1

Number of presidential electors.

On the day prescribed by this code there are to be elected, in the manner provided in this chapter, a number of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States equal to the number of senators and representatives in Congress to which this state is entitled at the time of such election.

(Code 1852, §339; Code 1867, §388; Code 1876, §342; Code 1886, §435; Code 1896, §1653; Code 1907, §446; Code 1923, §536; Code 1940, T. 17, §222.)