Donald Trump's 'beautiful' election map is back

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Donald Trump has won the US presidential election twice, and lost once. Take a look at how his results compare.

2016 Election results - Figure 1
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2016: Trump defeats Hillary Clinton in shock victory

When Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, he called this his "beautiful map".

He also called the result a “massive landslide”. That wasn’t true.

However, he did win comprehensively by 306 votes to 232 in the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote to Clinton.

2020: Joe Biden flips the map on Trump

By defeating Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden pulled off the first defeat of a sitting president in nearly three decades.

2016 Election results - Figure 2
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Biden's win wasn't a landslide either, but one thing he did have over Trump was a win in the nationwide popular vote as well as the Electoral College.

2024: Trump wins swings across the country to defeat Kamala Harris

Here's the latest state of play with the 2024 map of election results.

There may be a handful of states still undecided, but Trump has already passed the mark of 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure his return to the White House.

2016 Election results - Figure 3
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He picked up a swing right across the country, and looks to be headed for a win in the popular vote. That will be a first across Trump's three campaigns.

CreditsReporter: Matt LiddyDesigner: Ben SpraggonAdditional design: Georgina PiperDeveloper: Ashley Kyd

Posted 7 hours agoWed 6 Nov 2024 at 11:46pm, updated 1 hours agoThu 7 Nov 2024 at 5:33am

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