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
Massachusetts
11
54%
29%
25%
 14
 535
Maryland
10
58%
34%
24%
 24
 524
Hawaii
4
55%
33%
22%
 28
 514
Vermont
3
56%
35%
21%
 31
 510
California
54
56%
38%
18%
 85
 507
Connecticut
7
55%
38%
17%
 92
 453
Washington
12
53%
40%
13%
 104
 446
Illinois
19
53%
40%
13%
 123
 434
Oregon
8
51%
39%
12%
 131
 415
Delaware
3
51%
40%
11%
 134
 407
New Jersey
14
51%
42%
9%
 148
 404
New York
28
48%
40%
8%
 176
 390
New Mexico
5
49%
42%
7%
 181
 362
Colorado
10
49%
43%
6%
 191
 357
Rhode Island
4
48%
43%
5%
 195
 347
New Hampshire
4
48%
44%
4%
 199
 343
Minnesota
10
46%
44%
2%
 209
 339
Virginia
13
45%
45%
0%
 222
 329
Michigan
15
50%
51%
1%
 237
 316
Maine
4
45%
46%
1%
 241
 301
Wisconsin
10
49%
51%
2%
 251
 297
Pennsylvania
19
49%
51%
2%
     270
     287
Nevada
6
49%
51%
2%
 276
 268
Iowa
6
45%
47%
2%
 282
 262
Georgia
16
49%
51%
2%
 298
 256
North Carolina
16
48%
52%
4%
 314
 240
Indiana
11
43%
47%
4%
 325
 224
Arizona
11
48%
52%
4%
 336
 213
Kansas
6
44%
49%
5%
 342
 202
Missouri
10
43%
49%
6%
 352
 196
Arkansas
6
42%
48%
6%
 358
 186
Alaska
3
43%
50%
7%
 361
 180
Texas
40
40%
49%
9%
 401
 177
Mississippi
6
42%
51%
9%
 407
 137
Florida
30
42%
51%
9%
 437
 131
Ohio
17
42%
52%
10%
 454
 101
Nebraska
5
39%
50%
11%
 459
 84
South Carolina
9
40%
52%
12%
 468
 79
Oklahoma
7
40%
53%
13%
 475
 70
Utah
6
33%
47%
14%
 481
 63
Louisiana
8
39%
54%
15%
 489
 57
North Dakota
3
37%
55%
18%
 492
 49
Alabama
9
38%
57%
19%
 501
 46
Tennessee
11
35%
59%
24%
 512
 37
Montana
4
34%
59%
25%
 516
 26
Kentucky
8
35%
60%
25%
 524
 22
South Dakota
3
32%
60%
28%
 527
 14
West Virginia
4
31%
63%
32%
 531
 11
Idaho
4
30%
62%
32%
 535
 7
Wyoming
3
26%
67%
41%
 538
 3