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US presidential election 2020

Biden vs Trump: live results 2020

LAST UPDATED JANUARY 6 2021

All electoral college votes called

Joe Biden
DEMOCRAT

to win

House of Representatives
Outgoing House

DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS

434 out of 435 races called

Senate
Outgoing Senate

DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS

seats not up seats not up

for election for election
35 out of 35 races called

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Joe Biden was elected president of the US, winning the battleground state of Pennsylvania to reach the 270 votes needed to secure a majority in
the electoral college. Donald Trump rejected the outcome, saying his opponent was “rushing to falsely pose as the winner”.

Mr Trump has won North Carolina. Georgia certified its result after a hand recount showed that Mr Biden had carreid the state by just over 12,000
votes.

Mr Biden also won Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, according to race calls by the Associated Press. Mr Trump carried Florida, Texas,
Ohio and Iowa.

Some states’ counts have taken long to complete because of the large number of postal votes cast in the election. More than 100m Americans
voted early or by post.

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Control of the Senate came down to two Georgia elections that were decided in run-offs on January 5. The Democratic candidates won both
Georgia races, meaning that the Senate will be evenly divided between the parties and therefore controlled by the Democrats through the tie-
breaking vote of incoming vice-president Kamala Harris.

The Democrats have maintained control of House of Representatives with a reduced majority.

Are the candidates performing as expected?

Electoral votes by state

EXPECTED BIDEN EXPECTED TRUMP

Solid Leaning Toss-up Leaning Solid

(203) (23) (187) (48) (77)

CA CT DC DE HI IL MA MD CO MN NH AZ NE2 MI WI NV PA FL IA IN KS MO MT SC UT AK AL AR ID KY LA MS ND NE
ME ME1 NJ NM NY OR RI VA OH TX ME2 NC GA NE1 NE3 OK SD TN WV WY

VT WA

Which states have flipped?

States won by Joe Biden that Donald Trump won in 2016
AZ NE-2 MI WI PA GA
11 1 16 10 20 16

No states have been won by Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton won in 2016

Methodology
The FT 2020 results page displays US presidential, Senate and House races as called by the Associated Press. We categorise states into
“expected” categories based on pre-election polls. States where the difference in poll numbers between Biden and Trump is more than 10
percentage points are classified as states we expect to be solidly in favour of one candidate. States where the race is within 5 percentage
points and states that Trump won by less than a percentage point in 2016 are classified as expected ‘toss-up’ states. If a state had less
than two polls in the 60 days prior to election day, we use the Cook Political Report Electoral College Ratings to assign it a rating. We
consider Cook’s ‘likely’ and ‘lean’ states ‘leaning’.

Party breakdown numbers for the outgoing Senate include two Independents who caucus with Democrats as Democrats. Party
breakdown numbers for the outgoing House of Representatives do not include five vacant seats and one Libertarian. Historical
presidential results data comes from the Federal Election Commission and Daily Kos.

Reporting, data analysis, design and development by David Blood, Max Harlow, Joanna S Kao, Emma Lewis, Caroline
Nevitt, Ændrew Rininsland, Martin Stabe, Cale Tilford and Christine Zhang. Additional work by Fan Fei, Brooke Fox,
Keith Fray, Sarah Habershon, Eli Meixler, Jane Pong, and Aleksandra Wisniewska.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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