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Joe Bidennamed
Expected: 306
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Donald Trump
Expected: 232

Tracking the 2020 electoral college vote

Electors cast a majority of the 538 votes for President-elect Joe Biden, finalizing his win.

President-elect Joe Biden took another step toward inauguration Monday when members of the electoral college gathered in state capitals to cast their ballots for president and vice president. The date is established by federal law, which states that the electors “shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December” in presidential election years, which this year falls on Dec. 14.

Normally an afterthought, the vote was closely watched this year as President Trump has sought to subvert Biden’s victory by promoting baseless claims that the vote was tainted by fraud and pressuring state lawmakers to back alternate slates of electors. No states did so.

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As expected following the Nov. 3 general election, Biden garnered 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 by the end of the day. Electoral votes are cast by individual electors, who are typically leaders and loyalists of the political party that won the state’s popular vote. Their ballots will be formally counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.

Six of the states in which Trump contested his defeat — Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — cast their electoral votes for Biden and California’s 55 electoral votes put the president-elect over the top.

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Arkansas
Trump
6
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California
Biden
55
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Connecticut
Biden
7
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District of Columbia
Biden
3
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Louisiana
Trump
8
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Maine
Biden
3
Trump
1
Maine has four electoral votes. The November results split them between the candidates — three for Biden and one for Trump.
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Maryland
Biden
10
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Massachusetts
Biden
11
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Minnesota
Biden
10
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Mississippi
Trump
6
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Montana
Trump
3
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Nebraska
Biden
1
Trump
4
Nebraska has five electoral votes. The November results split them between the candidates — one for Biden and four for Trump.
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New Hampshire
Biden
4
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New Jersey
Biden
14
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New Mexico
Biden
5
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North Carolina
Trump
15
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North Dakota
Trump
3
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Ohio
Trump
18
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Pennsylvania
Biden
20
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Rhode Island
Biden
4
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South Carolina
Trump
9
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South Dakota
Trump
3
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Tennessee
Trump
11
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Utah
Trump
6
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Virginia
Biden
13
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Washington
Biden
12
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West Virginia
Trump
5
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Wisconsin
Biden
10
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Wyoming
Trump
3

A previous version of this graphic incorrectly stated the winner of New Mexico. Joe Biden won the state’s five electoral college votes.

About this story

Design and development: Madison Walls and Ashlyn Still

Reporting: Elise Viebeck, Kim Bellware, Emma Brown, David A. Fahrenthold, Rosalind S. Helderman, Colby Itkowitz, Kate Rabinowitz, Beth Reinhard, Daniela Santamariña, Neena Satija, Kevin Schaul, Peter Stevenson, Jon Swaine, Michelle Ye Hee Lee

Design editing: Kevin Uhrmacher

Video editing: Phoebe Connelly, John Farrell, Mahlia Posey

Project editing: Matea Gold, Jenny Rogers and Sandhya Somashekhar

Copy editing: Emily Codik

Elise Viebeck is a political enterprise and investigations reporter. She joined The Washington Post in 2015.
Madison Walls is a designer and web developer.
Ashlyn Still is a graphics reporter on the elections team.