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The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, on January 6–7, 2021, was held as the final step to confirm then President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election over incumbent President Donald Trump.
[2] [3] During the first presidential election in 1789, Pennsylvania was allotted 15 electoral votes. In 2024, the most recent election, the state was allotted 19. This number, proportional to the state's population and decided every 10 years after a census, peaked at 38 from the 1912 election through the 1928 election. [4]
Pennsylvania had 20 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [5] 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.
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The race was called on Wednesday morning for Trump after he found a path to 270 Electoral College votes, winning many key swing states over Vice President Kamala Harris.
This means that one electoral vote in Wyoming, the least-populous state, represents about 192,000 people, while one vote in Texas represents about 730,000 people.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election