It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College . This map shows how many votes each state gets in 2024.

None of the states currently signed on are Republican-dominant states. National Popular Vote is courting the battleground state of Michigan, which would bring them 15 electoral votes closer.

Final 2024 electoral map Trump swept all seven of the hotly-contested battleground states , winning 312 electoral votes, compared to Harris’ 226. The number needed to clinch the presidency is 270.

There has only been one Electoral Vote tie in U.S. history — it happened in the election of 1800. The country came thisclose in 1876, and 2000 was within 5 electoral votes... and some hanging chads.

Forty-eight states have a winner-take-all system where the winner of the state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska are the only states with a split ...

To better understand the landscape for the presidential election with a little more than six months to go, here is NPR's initial Electoral Vote map of the cycle.

There are 538 total electoral votes given to each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. based on how many members of Congress it has in Washington. Candidates need 270 votes to win.

The electoral map in the 2020 election. 270 To Win. But this year, Trump took back Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia, and he's leading in Michigan and Arizona, which are yet to be declared.

NPR's electoral map organizes states into seven categories – Toss Up, Lean Republican, Lean Democratic, Likely Republican, Likely Democratic, Safe Republican and Safe Democratic.

Biden's raw vote lead is currently just under 6 million votes. While the 2016 presidential map reflects Democratic dominance on the East and West coasts and Republican strength across the interior ...

There has only been one Electoral Vote tie in U.S. history — it happened in the election of 1800. The country came thisclose in 1876, and 2000 was within 5 electoral votes... and some hanging chads.

There has only been one Electoral Vote tie in U.S. history — it happened in the election of 1800. The country came thisclose in 1876, and 2000 was within 5 electoral votes... and some hanging chads.