Tipping-Point State

For each state, the current best estimate of the presidential race is given below, with all the polls for the most recent week of polling averaged together. (Note: the most recent week of polling for a given state may not be this week). The states are listed from most Democratic to most Republican. The fourth column gives the candidate's current lead in that state.

If you compare our scores to that of other media sources, you will no doubt find differences. Part of this is that we do count robopollsters (e.g., PPP, Rasmussen, and SurveyUSA) but do not count partisan pollsters, who work to elect Democrats or Republicans. Also, every source has its own algorithm for combining recent polls. Ours is here.

The color coding is as follows:

  • Dark blue: Strongly Democratic (Democrat leads by >= 10%)
  • Middle blue: Likely Democratic (Democrat leads by 5-9%)
  • Light blue: Barely Democratic (Democrat leads by 1-4%)
  • White: Tossup (currently exactly tied)
  • Light red: Barely Republican (Republican leads by 1-4%)
  • Middle red: Likely Republican (Republican leads by 5-9%)
  • Dark red: Strongly Republican (Republican leads by >= 10%)

The states in the middle are the ones in play.

The final two columns are the cumulative electoral votes. For Biden, start at the top, so if he wins D.C. and nothing else, he gets 3 EVs. For Trump, read up from the bottom. If he wins only Wyoming, he gets 3 EVs.

Another way of viewing this table is to ask "How deep into red territory does Biden have to go to win?" Or alternatively (reading upwards from the bottom) "How deep into blue territory does Trump have to go to win?" The state that puts either candidate over the top is the tipping-point state. It is indicated by the little hand icon for each candidate. Sometimes it is the same state, but not always.

Click on a state name to see a graph of all the presidential polls for that state.

Note that the sum of the EVs in a single row is never 538 because that would count the row twice. The sum of Biden's EVs in any row plus the Trump EVs in the row below it is 538, since that assigns each state to only one candidate.

State EVs Biden Trump Lead Biden EVs Trump EVs
D.C.
3
93%
6%
87%
 3
 538
Vermont
3
59%
28%
31%
 6
 535
Massachusetts
11
52%
22%
30%
 17
 532
Hawaii
4
64%
34%
30%
 21
 521
Maryland
10
55%
32%
23%
 31
 517
California
54
54%
31%
23%
 85
 507
Rhode Island
4
59%
39%
20%
 89
 453
Oregon
8
54%
34%
20%
 97
 449
Delaware
3
59%
40%
19%
 100
 441
Connecticut
7
59%
40%
19%
 107
 438
Washington
12
54%
39%
15%
 119
 431
Illinois
19
56%
42%
14%
 138
 419
New York
28
47%
37%
10%
 166
 400
New Mexico
5
54%
44%
10%
 171
 372
Colorado
10
49%
39%
10%
 181
 367
Virginia
13
49%
42%
7%
 194
 357
New Jersey
14
46%
39%
7%
 208
 344
New Hampshire
4
52%
45%
7%
 212
 330
Minnesota
10
44%
42%
2%
 222
 326
Pennsylvania
19
47%
48%
1%
 241
 316
Wisconsin
10
46%
48%
2%
 251
 297
Michigan
15
43%
45%
2%
 266
 287
North Carolina
16
41%
47%
6%
     282
     272
Maine
4
32%
38%
6%
 286
 256
Georgia
16
44%
50%
6%
 302
 252
Arizona
11
42%
49%
7%
 313
 236
Utah
6
38%
46%
8%
 319
 225
Nevada
6
43%
51%
8%
 325
 219
Ohio
17
40%
51%
11%
 342
 213
Florida
30
40%
51%
11%
 372
 196
Texas
40
36%
48%
12%
 412
 166
South Carolina
9
37%
51%
14%
 421
 126
Kansas
6
42%
56%
14%
 427
 117
Iowa
6
33%
48%
15%
 433
 111
Missouri
10
32%
49%
17%
 443
 105
Nebraska
5
40%
58%
18%
 448
 95
Louisiana
8
40%
59%
19%
 456
 90
Alabama
9
38%
57%
19%
 465
 82
Montana
4
35%
56%
21%
 469
 73
Indiana
11
34%
55%
21%
 480
 69
Tennessee
11
31%
55%
24%
 491
 58
Mississippi
6
37%
62%
25%
 497
 47
Alaska
3
35%
61%
26%
 500
 41
Kentucky
8
36%
63%
27%
 508
 38
Arkansas
6
35%
63%
28%
 514
 30
South Dakota
3
26%
55%
29%
 517
 24
Oklahoma
7
32%
65%
33%
 524
 21
North Dakota
3
32%
65%
33%
 527
 14
Idaho
4
28%
63%
35%
 531
 11
West Virginia
4
30%
69%
39%
 535
 7
Wyoming
3
27%
70%
43%
 538
 3