Unites States election explained in 10 numbers

These numbers help explain a historic US election that was conducted in the middle of both a worldwide pandemic and global economic recession

65 million
The coronavirus crisis made voting by mail the go-to option for some 65 million Americans, close to half of those who voted


18%
Biden won more votes than Trump in suburbs and other areas that skew towards affluence. Turnout in suburban counties was on track to rise about 18% as college-educated voters repudiated Trump

42
Biden was on track to win 42 counties that were won by Trump four years ago

7
Trump lost Florida’s Miami-Dade County, a Democratic stronghold, by a mere 7 percentage points, compared to the 29-point loss he suffered there in 2016

92/70
Those represent the biggest victory margins in a state or the District of Columbia for Biden and Trump, respectively. Biden’s came in the Democratic bastion of Washington, DC while Trump’s made his mark in Wyoming

58%
That’s the percentage of white male voters who supported Trump this year, according to an Edison Research exit poll that showed his support was 4 percentage points lower this year

2
Trump’s ranking as the all-time vote getter in one election, right behind Biden. And right behind Trump? Biden’s old boss, former President Barack Obama

4 million
It was an extremely close race in the Electoral College, but the popular vote was a lot less close, with Biden’s margin of victory at more than 4 million votes and rising

0
The number of times Trump has conceded a presidential election. His lawyers are currently mounting legal challenges to Biden’s victory

2 million
Compared with four years ago, Trump gained more than 2 million votes in the counties most ravaged by the coronavirus