created on September 29, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential
candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US
President Donald Trump.JIM WATSON, SAUL LOEB / AFP
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe
Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls closed
across the United States Tuesday — and a long night of waiting for
results in key battlegrounds on the cards.
The results are flowing in, with US media projecting wins for
the Republican incumbent so far in 23 states including big prizes
Florida and Texas, as well as Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio
— all states he won in 2016.
Biden has captured 18 states including his home state Delaware
and big prizes California and New York, as well as the US capital.
As with Trump, so far, all states claimed by Biden were won by
Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
So far, that gives Biden 224 electoral votes and Trump 213,
after Nebraska split its electoral votes between the two — four for
Trump and one for Biden, CNN and Fox News projected.
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A number of key battleground states are still up in the air,
including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin.
The magic number of electoral votes is 270.
The following is a 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.
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 (224) California (55)
Colorado (9)
Connecticut (7)
Delaware (3)
District of Columbia (3)
Hawaii (4)
Illinois (20)
Maryland (10)
Massachusetts (11)
Minnesota (10)
Nebrasks (1)*
New Hampshire (4)
New Jersey (14)
New Mexico (5)
New York (29)
Oregon (7)
Rhode Island (4)
Vermont (3)
Virginia (13)
Washington (12)
STATES NOT YET CALLED Alaska
Arizona
Georgia
Maine
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.
AFP