Electoral vote
46th out of 58 elections
Trump
57%
Popular vote margin
47th in the last 49 elections
Trump
–2.1%
The popular vote was not officially reported before the 1824 election.
Mr. Trump won 30 states, gathering 306 of 538 electoral votes. There have been 45 presidential elections in which the winning candidate won a larger share of the electoral vote.
Percent of electoral vote won
Mr. Trump trails in the popular vote by over 2.5 million votes as states continue to report final results. His deficit gives him the third-worst vote margin among winning candidates since 1824.
Popular vote margin
Reflecting Mr. Trump’s loss in the popular vote, only 29 percent of Americans say that Mr. Trump has a mandate for the agenda he offered during his campaign, according to a Washington Post-Schar School of Policy and Government poll.