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Electoral vote: Joe Biden : 306: Donald Trump : 232: Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Biden/Harris, and red denotes states won by Trump/Pence. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state or district. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic gain [a] Seats contested: 35 of 100 seats
This situation paralleled 2016, when a shift of 0.77% or less in each of the three most closely contested states (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania), or about 77,000 votes, would have resulted in the popular vote winner Hillary Clinton also winning in the Electoral College.
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
This is an Associated Press estimate of how much of the vote in an election has been counted. It is informed by turnout in recent elections, details on votes cast in advance and – after polls close – early returns.
Trump won 232 electoral votes in the 2020 Presidential Election. His opponent and current President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes . Here's how the Electoral College voted by state:
The 2020 election — like nearly every presidential race before it — will be decided by the Electoral College, which assigns every state with a set number of electoral votes based on its number ...
Pennsylvania had 20 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [4] Although Trump had won the state in 2016 by a narrow margin of 0.72%, Biden was able to reclaim the state, winning it by a similarly narrow 1.16% margin. Because of the way the state counted in-person ballots first, Trump started with a wide lead on election night.
The electoral vote was tabulated and certified by Congress in a joint session on January 6, 2021, per the Electoral Count Act. These individuals were nominated by each party to serve as the state's members of the 2020 Electoral College should their party's ticket win the state: [76]