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
92%
5%
87%
 3
 538
Vermont
3
66%
31%
35%
 6
 535
Massachusetts
11
65%
33%
32%
 17
 532
Maryland
10
65%
33%
32%
 27
 521
Hawaii
4
65%
34%
31%
 31
 511
California
54
64%
34%
30%
 85
 507
New York
28
61%
38%
23%
 113
 453
Rhode Island
4
60%
39%
21%
 117
 425
Connecticut
7
59%
39%
20%
 124
 421
Washington
12
58%
39%
19%
 136
 414
Delaware
3
59%
40%
19%
 139
 402
Oregon
8
57%
40%
17%
 147
 399
New Jersey
14
57%
41%
16%
 161
 391
Illinois
19
57%
41%
16%
 180
 377
Colorado
10
52%
40%
12%
 190
 358
Virginia
13
54%
44%
10%
 203
 348
New Mexico
5
54%
44%
10%
 208
 335
Maine
4
53%
44%
9%
 212
 330
Minnesota
10
53%
45%
8%
 222
 326
New Hampshire
4
53%
46%
7%
 226
 316
Michigan
15
51%
48%
3%
 241
 312
Nevada
6
50%
48%
2%
 247
 297
Wisconsin
10
50%
49%
1%
 257
 291
Pennsylvania
19
50%
49%
1%
     276
     281
Georgia
16
50%
49%
1%
 292
 262
Arizona
11
50%
49%
1%
 303
 246
North Carolina
16
49%
50%
1%
 319
 235
Florida
30
48%
51%
3%
 349
 219
Texas
40
46%
52%
6%
 389
 189
Ohio
17
45%
53%
8%
 406
 149
Iowa
6
45%
53%
8%
 412
 132
Alaska
3
43%
54%
11%
 415
 126
South Carolina
9
43%
55%
12%
 424
 123
Missouri
10
41%
57%
16%
 434
 114
Kansas
6
41%
57%
16%
 440
 104
Indiana
11
41%
57%
16%
 451
 98
Montana
4
40%
57%
17%
 455
 87
Mississippi
6
40%
59%
19%
 461
 83
Louisiana
8
40%
59%
19%
 469
 77
Utah
6
38%
58%
20%
 475
 69
Nebraska
5
39%
59%
20%
 480
 63
Tennessee
11
37%
61%
24%
 491
 58
Alabama
9
37%
62%
25%
 500
 47
South Dakota
3
36%
62%
26%
 503
 38
Kentucky
8
36%
62%
26%
 511
 35
Arkansas
6
35%
63%
28%
 517
 27
Idaho
4
33%
64%
31%
 521
 21
Oklahoma
7
32%
65%
33%
 528
 17
North Dakota
3
32%
65%
33%
 531
 10
West Virginia
4
30%
69%
39%
 535
 7
Wyoming
3
27%
70%
43%
 538
 3