Can someone tell me the results. Who won how many states, how many electoral votes and the popular vote.
Has everyone packed up and gone.
Wikipedia has a very decent results presentation.
The results aren’t final, yet. Washington State is still counting a substantial portion of its votes, which is affecting the overall popular vote tally immensely. Michigan has not been called by CNN, because the lead for Donald Trump is about 12,000 votes, apparently well within the number of uncounted ballots. Assuming Donald Trump does win the state, the Electoral College vote is predicted to be 306 to 232. We won’t know until January what the electors actually will have done (they meet on Dec. 19, IIRC). I’m betting there will be more than one “faithless” elector.
The Wikipedia link is excellent but how can they count all the electoral college votes as allocated (538 altogether) if some states haven’t declared yet?
No state ‘declares’ before they vote is finalized, which usually is late November.
Networks ‘declare’ winners of states when they are convinced that, based upon the vote totals showing, and their own exit-poll information, plus information on prior election voting and vote-counting trends, there is a clear winner. Michigan, in the opinion of CNN, doesn’t meet that status. CNN, however, isn’t the only place you can go for a “call” on who has and/or will have won the various states. And it’s not always clear what the source for the information on votes is; CBS, for example, this evening shows vote totals in Michigan at variance with the officially reported totals on the Michigan Secretary of State’s website (the Michigan SOS numbers are the numbers Wiki is using). CBS, you’ll notice, still isn’t calling New Hampshire, though CNN has.
What the collective Wiki editors decided was that they would post the numbers as they have them, show the totals on the basis of the numbers as they stand, note that they are not final numbers, and update them if needed. Thus, they have Clinton “winning” New Hampshire and Trump “winning” Michigan.