Who will win the presidency?
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90
Clinton
Trump
Closest races
Electoral votes
Electoral votes
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
353.8
Donald Trump
Trump
183.4
Gary Johnson
Johnson
0.8
Popular vote
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
49.1%
Donald Trump
Trump
41.8%
Gary Johnson
Johnson
7.8%
How the odds have changed
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Who’s ahead in each state and by how much
Our win probabilities come from simulating the election 20,000 times, which produces a distribution of possible outcomes for each state. Here are the expected margins of victory. The closer the dot is to the center line, the tighter the race. And the wider the bar, the less certain the model is about the outcome.
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It’s all about the 538 Electoral College votes
Here's a map of the country, with each state sized by its number of electoral votes and shaded by the leading candidate's chance of winning it.
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What to expect from the Electoral College
A candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes to clinch the White House. In each of our simulations, we forecast the states and note the number of electoral votes each candidate wins. That gives us a distribution for each candidate, where the tallest bar is the outcome that occurred most frequently.
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Who’s winning the popular vote
Our model produces a distribution of outcomes for the national popular vote. The curves will get narrower as the election gets closer and our forecasts become more confident.
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80% chance outcome falls in this range
Crazy and not-so-crazy scenarios
Here are the chances we’ll see these election outcomes.
| Electoral College tie 269 votes for each candidate | 0.3% |
| Recount At least one decisive state within 0.5 ppt | 3.6% |
| Clinton wins popular vote | 83.5% |
| Trump wins popular vote | 16.4% |
| Clinton wins popular vote but loses Electoral College | 3.8% |
| Trump wins popular vote but loses Electoral College | 0.6% |
| Johnson wins at least one electoral vote | 5.7% |
| Clinton majority wins at least 50 percent of the vote | 43.0% |
| Trump majority wins at least 50 percent of the vote | 3.5% |
| Clinton landslide double-digit popular vote margin | 36.3% |
| Trump landslide double-digit popular vote margin | 1.9% |
| Map exactly the same as in 2012 | 0.1% |
| Clinton wins at least one state Mitt Romney won in 2012 | 87.9% |
| Trump wins at least one state President Obama won in 2012 | 63.7% |
How this forecast works
Nate Silver explains the methodology behind our 2016 general election forecast. Read more …
Poll results aggregated from HuffPost Pollster, RealClearPolitics, polling firms and news reports.
Forecast models by Nate Silver. Research by Jennifer Kanjana and Dhrumil Mehta. Design and development by Jay Boice, Aaron Bycoffe, Reuben Fischer-Baum, Ritchie King, Ella Koeze, Allison McCann, Andrei Scheinkman and Gus Wezerek. Candidate portraits by Kristina Micotti. Have thoughts on our forecast? Notice any bugs or missing polls? Send us an email.
Who will win Missouri?
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Who will win Arizona?
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Who will win Georgia?
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Who will win North Carolina?
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Who will win South Carolina?
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Who will win Mississippi?
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Who will win Kansas?
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Who will win Indiana?
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Who will win Colorado?
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Who will win Ohio?
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Who will win Texas?
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Who will win Iowa?
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Who will win Florida?
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Who will win Utah?
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Who will win South Dakota?
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Who will win Montana?
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Who will win Virginia?
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Who will win Nevada?
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Who will win New Hampshire?
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Who will win North Dakota?
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Who will win Pennsylvania?
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Who will win Alaska?
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Who will win Tennessee?
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Who will win Wisconsin?
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Who will win Oregon?
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Who will win Minnesota?
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Who will win Kentucky?
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Who will win Maine?
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*Maine awards two electoral votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district. We’ve forecast each contest: StatewideDistrict 1District 2
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Who will win Nebraska?
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*Nebraska awards two electoral votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district. We’ve forecast each contest: StatewideDistrict 1District 2District 3
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Who will win Arkansas?
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Who will win New Mexico?
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Who will win Louisiana?
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Who will win Michigan?
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Who will win Connecticut?
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Who will win Alabama?
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Who will win New Jersey?
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Who will win Washington?
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Who will win Idaho?
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Who will win Illinois?
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Who will win Delaware?
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Who will win West Virginia?
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Who will win Oklahoma?
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Who will win California?
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Who will win New York?
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Who will win Rhode Island?
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Who will win Wyoming?
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Who will win Massachusetts?
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Who will win Vermont?
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Who will win Maryland?
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Who will win Hawaii?
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Who will win D.C.?
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