General

Biden leads President Trump in tightly contested US presidential polls

As it stands 7 states are still left uncalled, including major prizes such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin offering both candidates a path to victory.

 

 

Biden has captured 20 states including his home state Delaware and big prizes California and New York, as well as the US capital. The former vice president has flipped one state won by Trump in 2016 — Arizona, in the southwest.

 

Nebraska split its electoral votes between the two — four for Trump and one for Biden. Maine was won by Biden, but so far, he has only three of the four electoral votes on offer, with the last still to be decided.

 

So far, that gives Biden 238 electoral votes and Trump 213.

 

270 electoral vote is required for a winner to emerge.

 

Guardian compiles list of the states won by each candidate and the corresponding number of electoral votes, based on the projections of US media including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC/NBC News, ABC, CBS and The New York Times.

 

In the case of Arizona, AFP used the projection made by the Associated Press.

 

TRUMP (213)

Alabama (9)

 

Arkansas (6)

 

Florida (29)

 

Idaho (4)

 

Indiana (11)

 

Iowa (6)

 

Kansas (6)

 

Kentucky (8)

 

Louisiana (8)

 

Mississippi (6)

 

Missouri (10)

 

Montana (3)

 

Nebraska (4)*

 

North Dakota (3)

 

Ohio (18)

 

Oklahoma (7)

 

South Carolina (9)

 

South Dakota (3)

 

Tennessee (11)

 

Texas (38)

 

Utah (6)

 

West Virginia (5)

 

Wyoming (3)

 

BIDEN (238)

Arizona (11)

 

California (55)

 

Colorado (9)

 

Connecticut (7)

 

Delaware (3)

 

District of Columbia (3)

 

Hawaii (4)

 

Illinois (20)

 

Maine (3)**

 

Maryland (10)

 

Massachusetts (11)

 

Minnesota (10)

 

Nebraska (1)*

 

New Hampshire (4)

 

New Jersey (14)

 

New Mexico (5)

 

New York (29)

 

Oregon (7)

 

Rhode Island (4)

 

 

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Vermont (3)

 

Virginia (13)

 

Washington (12)

 

STATES NOT YET CALLED

Alaska

 

Georgia

 

Michigan

 

Nevada

 

North Carolina

 

Pennsylvania

 

Wisconsin

 

* Nebraska splits its five electoral votes — two electors are assigned based on the plurality of votes in the state, and the other three are awarded based on congressional district. Biden took one vote, in the 2nd congressional district.

 

 

** Maine has a similar method to Nebraska. Of its four electoral votes, three have been projected for Biden, while the fourth is outstanding.

 

 

 

 

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